If a fox was a robot it would be fantastic. This is your very own personal robot, because you are fantastic. FoxBot is your AI-free1 personal assistant, diligently doing your chores in the background and letting you know about things important to you.
- Poll your RSS feeds and notify you of relevant topics
- Learn what you care about — a built-in Naive Bayes classifier learns from your feedback to filter out noise and surface the articles that matter to you
- Detect changes to websites you care about
- Daily reminders throughout the day about things to be mindful of, like drinking water
- Countdown timers
- Deliver notifications via console, Slack, or Telegram
Tip: For the best experience, use Telegram. RSS notifications come with inline 👍/👎 buttons that train the classifier to understand your preferences. Over time FoxBot learns which topics you care about and suppresses the rest — no cloud services, no data leaving your device. See Intelligence for details.
You can run this wherever you like. Just download the appropriate binary from here.
docker pull antfie/foxbot
docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/app" antfie/foxbotSee the Deployment Guide for systemd, Raspberry Pi, and other options.
In the console you would see something like this:
However FoxBot really shines when you use it as a Slack or Telegram bot:
A config.yaml file will be generated on first run. See the Configuration Guide for full details on all settings.
| Document | Description |
|---|---|
| Configuration Guide | All config options, keyword matching, feed groups |
| Intelligence | How the Naive Bayes classifier learns from your feedback |
| Architecture | System design, data flow diagrams, package structure |
| Deployment Guide | Docker, systemd, Raspberry Pi, building from source |
git clone https://github.com/antfie/FoxBot.git
go run github.com/antfie/FoxBotI welcome bug reports, fixes, features and donations to keep this going.
If you need custom features, integrations or support we can help. Just email us at foxbot@antfie.com. We currently have the following premium feature availables:
- Monitoring share prices with buy/sell notifications
The following is a non-commital list of items we want to work through:
- Speed test functionality, ping, ICMP
- Consider daily summaries instead of regular updates
- Solar panel monitoring
- Weather
- Home automation?
FoxBot was created by Anthony Fielding. Alert sounds by Material Design (Google), which are licenced under CC-BY 4.0.
Footnotes
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AI has been used to help build the robot, but there is no AI usage at runtime. ↩
