It has been a busy stretch since our last news update, and we have shipped a lot of new ways to bring the internet into your Discord server! Here is a roundup of everything that has landed this year.

Filter irrelevant updates

Feed filters allow you to specify which posts you want to receive from a feed. Filters may inspect the title, description, URL and other fields of each feed update. This is especially useful for very busy feeds that may contain irrelevant updates for your community. Learn more in our filtering feed items guide.

Bluesky & X (Twitter) better than ever

The Readybot X (Twitter) to Discord integration has graduated from Beta status to general availability. Get started with two free X accounts to follow, and upgrade to the Readybot Membership plan to add more.

New updates from X (Twitter), Bluesky Discord Bot and Mastodon & the Fediverse are now delivered with the fullest details including multiple embedded images and links. By integrating directly with the AT & Mastodon Protocols and the X API, Readybot now provides the richest news updates for your Discord server.

A friendlier dashboard

The feed dashboard picked up a round of quality-of-life improvements this year. You can now view all of a bot's feeds at once, see feed counts at a glance, and get clear guidance when a bot has no feeds yet — alongside a more polished feed editor. Head to your dashboard to take a look.

Faster & stronger

A lot of work has gone into scaling Readybot.io to meet growing demand from some of the largest Discord communities. Feed updates are now faster and more reliable. Premium Membership subscribers can get the fastest news updates down to one-minute checks.

To keep your bots healthy, feeds that fail continuously for more than 72 hours are now paused automatically — you can re-enable them any time from the dashboard.

Thank you for being part of the Readybot community. As always, if you have questions or ideas, we would love to hear them at [email protected].

Readybot.io now supports Discord Twitch.tv live stream alerts! Let your Discord viewers know whenever you go live and follow favorite streams within Discord using Readybot.

Twitch alerts can also be enabled for new VOD (Video On Demand) stream replays, highlights and other video clips. In addition, streams can be filtered to only send notifications when playing a specific game.

Built for both streamers and watchers, the new Readybot Twitch integration combines Twitch & Discord communities into one. Learn more and set up your first Twitch feed bot in the Readybot Dashboard!

Modify the contents of outgoing Discord messages using Readybot's new Custom Message Formatting feature! Available to users with a Membership plan or higher, message formatting makes it possible to flexibly alter the format of outgoing messages.

Custom formatting includes the ability to use various Feed Variables to use information from the feed. In addition, server admins can add User and Role Mentions to highlight users when new messages are received.

To set up custom formatting for your Discord bot open the "Discord formatting & mentions" settings in the Readybot Dashboard.

This update drop also includes improvements to feed error logging to provide more information. The Help Center has also been updated with added content.

YouTube alerts sent to Discord now include an embedded video player. Send the latest videos to your Discord server using Readybot and watch them without ever leaving the app!

Feed bots can now make use of Discord webhooks to customize the name and avatar used for outgoing messages.

To set up a webhook for your Discord bot open the "Discord appearance" settings in the Readybot Dashboard.

The feed bot dashboard has been upgraded. The refreshed dashboard makes it easier than ever to manage and add new feeds to your Discord server.

Find newly added Bot Logs inside the dashboard. Logs make it easy to see the status of each feed. Feed updates & errors can be seen in the logs for troubleshooting.

Error logs indicate whether the RSS feed was invalid or loaded from the server. The response body, if any, can be inspected for each error.