Borneo Bulletin News Bot

Preview

demo

This is a Python-based Discord bot that scrapes the Borneo Bulletin website and posts the news articles in a Discord channel. This bot is designed to provide daily news updates to users in an easy and efficient way.

Features

✅ Scrapes the articles using Python and Selenium.
✅ Retrieves the articles for the day from selected categories. (Currently Headlines and National only)
✅ Posts the news articles in a Discord channel.
✅ Includes a hyperlink to the original article.
✅ Runs automatically at a specific time every day.

Usage

Invite the Borneo Bulletin Bot to your Discord server.
Type /toggle_scheduled_national in any text channel to get a daily national news at the 9am Brunei time.
Type /fetch_national in any text channel to get the national news for the day immediately.

Project Structure

bot
├── cogs                    # Contains all the Discord commands organized into separate files
├── scraper                 # Contains scraper functions for extracting data from websites
└── bot.py                  # Main entry point for the bot application

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request if you have any improvements or new features to add. If you encounter any issues or bugs, please open an issue in the repository.