FoxBot

Introducing FoxBot

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-free[^1] personal assistant, diligently doing your chores in the background and letting you know about things important to you.

[^1]: AI has been used to help build the robot, but there is no AI usage at runtime.

What Can It Do?

• 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.

How Do I Run It?

You can run this wherever you like. Just download the appropriate binary from here.

Using Docker

docker pull antfie/foxbot
docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/app" antfie/foxbot

See the Deployment Guide for systemd, Raspberry Pi, and other options.

What Does It Look Like?

In the console you would see something like this:

However FoxBot really shines when you use it as a Slack or Telegram bot:

How Do I Configure It?

A config.yaml file will be generated on first run. See the Configuration Guide for full details on all settings.

Documentation

Running Locally

git clone https://github.com/antfie/FoxBot.git
go run github.com/antfie/FoxBot

How Can I Support This?

I welcome bug reports, fixes, features and donations to keep this going.

Premium Features

If you need custom features, integrations or support we can help. Just email us at [email protected]. We currently have the following premium feature availables:

• Monitoring share prices with buy/sell notifications

Backlog

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?

Credits

FoxBot was created by Anthony Fielding. Alert sounds by Material Design (Google), which are licenced under CC-BY 4.0.