Article Bot is a script that allows you to assign a user account (preferably an exclusive one) to an article bot that will post RSS feeds in select forums at designated intervals. These articles are derived from RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds.
RSS files are assigned to article bots, as well to individual forums, which in turn directs what, when and where your article bot will post.
Features
- NEW! Now with option to post all of a feeds articles to a single existing thread.
- Make your own customized templates.
- Test a feed before using it.
- Feed images available in custom templates (if feed has an image).
- Custom string and character replace options.
- Allows HTML to pass through if forums have "allow html" set (use at own risk).
- AdminCP interface for adding/modifying/deleting article bots & rss feeds.
- Works with RSS 0.9 through RSS 1.0. RSS 2.0 including enclosures, and Atom (with a few exceptions).
- Designate intervals (in minutes) to each RSS feed for when your article bot will post them.
- Works with vbcron and system cron.
- Supports enclosure enabled feeds (Podcasts,bittorrent).
- Designate a replacement field for the post body if the feed uses something other than the standard "description" tag.
- Toggle wether the feed is a link only feed or has a description and post accordingly.
- Links in article descriptions are parsed.
- Fully phrased for easy translation.
- ACP help section.
- "Label" field to add/modify RSS interface, that allows you to tag a label, e.g. [yahoo], to the beginning of threads, unique to each RSS feed. This might help for better distinction of RSS feeds.
- Option to toggle on/off of building similar threads per RSS feed. Some RSS feeds could halt the script if the building of similar thread results for that feed takes too long.
- Option to toggle on/off skipping of articles that don't contain descriptions.
- Regular expression search and replace for article titles and descriptions. This grants you much flexibility to filter out things you don't want in your titles or descriptions, the to parse images, etc...
- Easy to install using the product import system.
- Better and more feature rich than the imitation included in 3.6.
