Do your Edgerunners watch the Corpo news propaganda that gets spread about them after their Friday Night Firefights? What about the weather before a road trip across the badlands? Is there a sale for the latest and greatest in Mr Stud or Midnight Lady technology your players have been looking for? Are there new deals for drinks at the local bar? Well now you can see it all laid out --- with a live news ticker in FoundryVTT! Feed your table in-universe headlines, corporate spin, or underground rumors straight from your journal entries. If you write it, the ticker runs it. 

The FoundryVTT RSS Scroller is a module that creates a scrolling text window in FoundryVTT using journal entries as the source for RSS-style news feeds. The feed is fully customizable, allowing adjustment to the theme, font size, scrolling speed, window dimensions, and more.

The Scroller reads text from a journal you set up and all it's entries or pages and displays it as a horizontal scrolling news ticker. Great for having in-world news for your table! Did the party do something crazy and the world should react? Here's the best way to do that!

Supports dynamic settings, allowing users or the GM to modify:

• RSS Scroller Theme (User)
• RSS Scroller Title (GM)
• RSS Scroller Font (User)
• RSS Journal Source (GM)
• Resizable or fixed window size (User)
• Default RSS Window width & height (GM)
• RSS Font size (User)
• RSS Scroll speed (User)

1. Paste the module.json into your Foundry Module Manifest or clone the module into your FoundryVTT modules directory.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KaiibottAI/foundry-rss-scroller/main/module.json

or

git clone https://github.com/KaiibottAI/foundry-rss-scroller.git

2. Add the module to your game via Manage Modules in FoundryVTT.
3. Enable it in your world modules.

The module provides several customizable settings via Game Settings.

The module reads the text from a specified journal entry in the game settings. It processes the text content, stripping unnecessary HTML tags, paragraghs and page breaks, and formatting it into a continuous scrolling ticker. The scroller applies Foundry settings to modify its appearance and behavior and is animated with CSS to create a seamless scrolling effect. Great for having news given back to your players about things happening in your world!

• Support for multiple feeds and cycling between them.
• Successfully added Themes in 1.1.1!
  • Additional customization options (e.g., text color, background color).
  • Themes
• Successfully fixed Journal Page ordering in 1.3.0!

• Journal entry not found? Double-check the name in the settings (case-sensitive).
  • Double check the name you have in the RSS Scroller setting Journal Name, capitalization does matter. "News Feed" is not equal to "news feed".
• Text scrolling too fast/slow?
  • Adjust the RSS Speed setting to a higher number. This controls "how long" the text will take to scroll thru the feed. Higher number = Slower speed.
• Window size not right?
  • Modify the Width and Height settings or toggle the "resizeable" setting on for more control.

Toggle the RSS Feed Window. This macro is included in a compendium on install for ease of access.

toggleRSSFeed();

Toggle the RSS Feed Theme

// If you want the red on red like an OG digital clock
applyTheme("cyberpunk-red");
// blue on blue like a super relaxed dark theme
applyTheme("deep-blue");
// green on green like a Fallout Terminal
applyTheme("fallout-nuclear");