Automation of Recon Postings on the Forum?

[cheezyWXguy]

Is it possible to automate the topic creation and posting of recon information on the Active Storms forum? I’ve noticed that there is a recon bot that auto-posts this information in the discord chat. I imagine it can be a bit labor-intensive to post these manually, especially when multiple storms exist at the same time.

[RL3AO]

Levi figured it out for his site. I'd imagine it can be done. None of my programming experience is with websites or phpbb.

[gfsperpendicular]

Yeah, additionally, a quick google search reveals multiple RSS phpbb bots that could be used to automate posting of advisories and TWOs (and maybe recon, not sure what Levi and TAM have used). However, I suspect there is some sort of hurdle since none have been added in this forum's 18 years.

[CrazyC83]

I've had a hard time keeping up with Recon when multiple storms are ongoing. The biggest issue is that they share the same header and sometimes you get one followed by another less than a minute later. I agree a bot would be useful. It's nice to follow it minute by minute but hard when multiple storms are active. I wish NOAA would use different headers for each aircraft.