Features:

• Add RSS feeds to any channel
• Automatically poll feeds and send new items to the channel
• Automatically summarize content
• Archive.is links for paywalled content
• Easy self hosting
• Free and open source
• Slash command native – no separate UI like MonitoRSS

Fill out the .env file with your configuration. After installing dependencies, register the slash commands by running pnpm commands:register.

Set up a bot in the Discord developer portal and put the token in for the DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN and the client id in for the DISCORD_CLIENT_ID variable.

Get a Postgres-compatible database URL and set it as DATABASE_URL in your .env. You can use an external provider like Neon or add a PostgreSQL service directly within your Railway project dashboard. Railway will automatically provide the DATABASE_URL environment variable.

This project uses Docker Compose profiles to make the local Postgres database optional.

• To use a local Postgres database:

  docker-compose up --profile localdb

  This starts both the bot and a local Postgres service. The bot will connect to the local database by default.

• To use an external database (e.g., Neon, Railway):

  docker-compose up

  This starts only the bot service. Make sure your .env contains a valid external DATABASE_URL.

For deployment, you can use Railway or any other platform that supports Docker or Node.js.