NewsBot

A Discord bot that frequently scrape stock market news.

Discord Commands

These command must be prefix with command characters:

ping: ping bot
register: register a channel for notification
unregister: unregister a channel
run: start scrape & notify loop
stop: stop loop
save: scrape & save news to database; use this to intialize bot after restarting service
is-running check whether the bot is running
load-config load new config files

Contains a dictionary of configuration for publishers (newspaper).

[key] Publishers: list of publishers for scraping
domain: url domain of newspaper
url: url of scraping webpage
table: name of table in database
articles_path: css path to list of news articles
title_path: css path from articles_path to title of articles
link_path: css path from articles_path to href of articles
link_with_domain: (boolean) true if the link has domain url in it; if false, the bot will append the domain before saving to database

Mergers n' Acquisition:

Short:

Create directories: build, config, database
Run: npm install
Run: npm run tsc
Create config files: (examples in template directory)
- bot_config.json
- publisher_config.json
Create .service file (example in template directory)
Run service