@hackage rss2irc1.0.5

watches an RSS/Atom feed and writes it to an IRC channel

rss2irc is an IRC bot that polls an RSS or Atom feed and announces updates to an IRC channel, with options for customizing output and behavior. It aims to be an easy-to-use, reliable, well-behaved bot.

Usage: rss2irc FEEDURL [BOTNAME@IRCSERVER/#CHANNEL] [OPTS]

For example, to announce Hackage uploads (like hackagebot):

$ rss2irc http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss mybot@irc.freenode.org/#haskell