Open Source Spotlight: RSS-to-Telegram-Bot
Repo: https://github.com/Rongronggg9/RSS-to-Telegram-Bot
License: AGPL-3.0+
Stack: Python
Approx. popularity: ~2,000+ GitHub stars
What it is
A high-quality RSS/Atom to Telegram bridge focused on reading experience - not just dumping raw titles.
Core features
Who it is for
Channel owners, news digests, niche monitors, and teams that want automated posts from feeds without a brittle custom scraper.
Caveats
What feeds are you piping into Telegram? Share workflows below.
Repo: https://github.com/Rongronggg9/RSS-to-Telegram-Bot
License: AGPL-3.0+
Stack: Python
Approx. popularity: ~2,000+ GitHub stars
What it is
A high-quality RSS/Atom to Telegram bridge focused on reading experience - not just dumping raw titles.
Core features
- Rich-text aware delivery
- Media handling (images/video/audio/documents)
- Long-image handling to reduce ugly compression
- Emoji shortcode / emoji image cleanup
- Author and title heuristics
- Auto-split for long posts
- Optional Telegraph sending
- Public bot exists, but self-host is the serious path
Who it is for
Channel owners, news digests, niche monitors, and teams that want automated posts from feeds without a brittle custom scraper.
Caveats
- AGPL is strict about offering source if you run a modified public service
- Fair use of public instances - do not abuse shared bots with huge feed lists
- Feed legality/ToS still applies to what you republish
What feeds are you piping into Telegram? Share workflows below.