Social networks and RSS

• YouTube or Twitch: on the Social networks page, Add a network: a title (to find your way), the platform, the channel's link or handle, the notification channel and, if you want, a role to mention.
• RSS: on the RSS feeds page, Add a feed: the feed's address (the website checks it is a feed), the check interval and the channel.

In the notification channel, the bot needs View channel, Send messages and Embed links; to mention a role that isn't mentionable by everyone, it also needs the permission to mention every role.

Every 2 hours, the bot looks at each channel's latest video. If it was never announced in your community, it posts the announcement (once per video): the channel's name, the video title as a link, the start of its description, its date, its thumbnail, and the Watch the video, Visit the channel and Subscribe links (buttons on Discord).

Every 30 seconds, the bot checks whether each streamer is live.

• Stream start: "… is live on Twitch!", the stream title, the game, the start time, a preview and the Watch the stream link.
• During the stream: the announcement is updated every 3 minutes at most (title, game, viewers, preview).
• Stream end: 10 minutes later, the announcement becomes "… was live on Twitch!" with the Watch the VOD link.
• Dropped stream or Twitch error: if the stream comes back during those 10 minutes, or if the Twitch API doesn't answer, the stream isn't considered over: the bot keeps editing the same announcement, without a new mention.
• The role is only mentioned on the first post.

The bot checks each feed at its interval and only looks at the most recent article: if it was never announced, it posts it (title as a link, summary, images, feed name, date and Read more link). If several articles come out between two checks, only the latest is posted.

The most recent article is picked by its publication date, whatever the feed's order: a feed listed from oldest to newest, or with an old article pinned on top, works. Dates more than one hour in the future are ignored; a feed without dates is read in its own order (its first article counts).

A video, stream or article is never announced twice, even when two checks overlap; a failed post is retried at the next check. The "Last error: …" shown under a feed on the website clears itself as soon as a later check succeeds (SEND_FAILED: the feed was read but the article couldn't be posted in the channel).

On the website, Check & send runs an immediate check of a network or a feed, even if the item was already announced. The button is then locked for that item: 30 minutes on Free, 15 minutes on Basic, 10 minutes on Ultimate.

Beyond the limit (after a plan downgrade), only the oldest channels, within the plan's limit, are watched.

• YouTube isn't instant: a video can be announced up to 2 hours after its release.