News scraper and publisher for zseis.zgora.pl

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• scrape news from 🌐 school site (https://zseis.zgora.pl/)
• send them trought 🐱‍💻 Discord Webhooks
• doesn't require hosting as it uses GitHub Actions

📐 Technical info

• You can't get id of entry in easy way (to my knowledge other than brute-forcing), so script generates a checksum (md5(title + dateModified)) to check what news were already sent to Discord
• Script has hard-coded that there are 4 news per page and will throw error if will find more, this is due to not well structured HTML of website. This also leads to news extracter seem to be a bit unintuitive.
• It uses Discord Webhooks and requires function in other bot to crosspost on announcement channel.

🔨 Developing

git clone https://github.com/konhi/zseis-news.git
cd zseis-news
echo WEBHOOK_URL="<https://discord.com/api/webhooks/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > .env
npm install

• npm run start: builds and runs the script
• npm run test: code testing using jest
• npm run lint: automatically fix problems and show style errors
• npm run dev: TypeScript compiler watch for changes
• node dist/main.js: run main program (without compiling)