rockstar-newswire

Bring Rockstar newswire feed to your discord server.

Install

• Install the required Node packages via npm i or yarn install

API

    let newswire = require('./newswire');
    let latestNews = new newswire(type, webhookURL);
    // Available Types: rdr2, gtav, latest, music, fanart, fanvideos, creator, tips, rockstar, updates,
    // Webhook URL: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks
    // News should automatically post and update every 2 hours.

Available types

• creator (Creator jobs articles featured by Rockstar)
• fanart (General fans' art articles from any Rockstar game)
• fanvideos (General fans' showoff videos articles from any Rockstar game)
• gtav (GTA V general news)
• music (Music production articles)
• latest (Latest news from any type that shows on newswire homepage)
• rdr2 (Red dead redemption 2 general news)
• rockstar (Rockstar company updates)
• tips (General game tips from Rockstar)
• updates (Any Released game updates)

Notes

• You require discord webhook URL.
• Feed refreshes every 2 hours to make sure its up-to-date. If you would like to change it then you're required to change this variable using that time converter. It has to be in milliseconds in order to operate properly.
• It's recommened to take newsdb.json with you if you're porting the project to another host to prevent redundant news posts.
• It is not guranteed that it can trace multiple new news posts of the same type since it only traces the last post posted. In-order to avoid such error, you can lower the news feed refresh rate as specified previously. If you have a idea on how to improve it then feel free to contribute.
• This is a small research project and it's not meant to be used as a network harm tool.

Demo

Credits

• Rockstar newswire.
• got for lightweight simple https requests.
• puppeteer for their virtual browser network tracing.