Notify flexget updates - No input plugin detected

[hhiru]

I tried making a version checker task for flexget but I receive these warnings in the logs:

2019-03-20 20:02 WARNING  version_checker updates         You are not running latest Flexget Version. Current is 2.20.4 and latest is 2.20.13
2019-03-20 20:02 WARNING  task          updates         Task doesn't have any input plugins, you should add (at least) one!
2019-03-20 20:02 WARNING  details       updates         Task didn't produce any entries. This is likely due to a mis-configured or non-functional input.
2019-03-20 20:02 WARNING  task          updates         Task does not have any filter plugins to accept entries. You need at least one to accept the entries you  want.

This is my task:

tasks:
[...]
  updates:
    version_checker: yes
    notify:
      entries:
        message: "{{output}}"
        via:
          - discord:
              web_hook_url: https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/...

How do I avoid these warnings and correctly output the update messages through the notify plugin?

[gazpachoking]

Hmm, seems version_checker plugin just puts warnings in your log file, and cannot be used to send notifications. In theory, you should be able to use the rss feed from another source as an input to your task instead. Possibilities:
- Github releases atom feed https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget/releases.atom
- libraries.io (this seems to be broken though)

Here's how the task would look:

tasks:
  updates:
    rss: https://github.com/Flexget/Flexget/releases.atom
    accept_all: yes
    notify:
      entries:
        via:
          - <whatever notifier>

[gazpachoking]

Perhaps we should add a recipe to the cookbook with something like this.