Hi!

I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.

To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
Also it can be added to groups.

Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>
> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
> Also it can be added to groups.
>
> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot

Cool!
BTW any reason why you parse the HTML and not use the JSON index?
Also adding a new API route to the dub registry might be a bit API friendlier then fetching all packages on every cron operation. Generating the index JSON is rather expensive (until a few recent fixes, you could kill the registry by requesting the index.json a few times in a row). Though of course the dub registry (or its reverse proxy) could cache the result for a bit...

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:59:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>>
>> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
>> Also it can be added to groups.
>>
>> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot
>
> Cool!
> BTW any reason why you parse the HTML and not use the JSON index?

As I know, code.dlang.org provides JSON package list without any additional info. Thus, it is need to parse every package separately by calling https://code.dlang.org/packages/*.json to get packages versions, and it is need to do for every registerd package.

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 08:41:36 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:59:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>>>
>>> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
>>> Also it can be added to groups.
>>>
>>> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot
>>
>> Cool!
>> BTW any reason why you parse the HTML and not use the JSON index?
>
> As I know, code.dlang.org provides JSON package list without any additional info. Thus, it is need to parse every package separately by calling https://code.dlang.org/packages/*.json to get packages versions, and it is need to do for every registerd package.

Hmm, I just wanted to point out that in the time it took you to write the HTML parser, you could have added an API method to the registry:

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/blob/master/source/dubregistry/api.d

I created an issue, s.t. this isn't lost in the NG space:

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/issues/326

Oh and the reason why I point out that parsing the HTML isn't ideal, it's because it might change soon, e.g.

https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/pull/303

On Monday, 23 April 2018 at 16:10:47 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 08:41:36 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:59:11 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>>>>
>>>> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
>>>> Also it can be added to groups.
>>>>
>>>> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot
>>>
>>> Cool!
>>> BTW any reason why you parse the HTML and not use the JSON index?
>>
>> As I know, code.dlang.org provides JSON package list without any additional info. Thus, it is need to parse every package separately by calling https://code.dlang.org/packages/*.json to get packages versions, and it is need to do for every registerd package.
>
> Hmm, I just wanted to point out that in the time it took you to write the HTML parser, you could have added an API method to the registry:

No, because my target was "obtain working bot as fast as possible"

Thanks for your PR!

On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 07:49:00 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I also made a tool which periodically monitors code.dlang.org for new packages and a notifies its Telegram subscribers.
>
> To subscribe just write something to @dlang_announce_bot
> Also it can be added to groups.
>
> Code: https://github.com/denizzzka/paper_plane_bot

Hi Denis, I'm checking out the source code on github to try to figure it out but could you help me learn how to make a Telegram bot?