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@@ -546,6 +546,113 @@ Now run: Now you can view feeds in mutt(1) for example. +- - - + +Incremental data updates + +For servers that support it some incremental updates and bandwidth-saving can +be done by using the "If-Modified-Since" HTTP header. + +The curl -z option can be used to send the modification date of the local feed +file so the server can make the decision to respond with incremental data. + +You can do this by overriding the fetch() function in the sfeedrc file and +adding the -z option: + + # fetch(name, url, feedfile) + fetch() { + curl -z "$3" "$2" + } + +This comes at a cost of some privacy. For example there can be a fingerprinting +vector of the local modification date of the feed file. + +- - - + +CDN's blocking requests due to missing User-Agent + +sfeed_update will not send the "User-Agent" header by default for privacy +reasons. Some CDNs like Cloudflare don't like this and will block such HTTP +requests. + +A custom User-Agent can be set by using the curl -H option, like so: + + curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0' + +The above example string pretends to be a Windows 10 (x86-64) machine running +Firefox 78. + +- - - + +Shellscript to export existing newsboat cached items from sqlite3 to the sfeed +TSV format. + + #!/bin/sh + # Export newsbeuter/newsboat cached items from sqlite3 to the sfeed TSV format. + # The data is split per file per feed with the name of the newsboat title/url. + # Dependencies: sqlite3, awk. + # + # Usage: create some directory to store the feeds, run this script. + # + # Assumes "html" for content-type (Newsboat only handles HTML content). + # Assumes feednames are unique and a feed title is set. + + # newsboat cache.db file. + cachefile="$HOME/.newsboat/cache.db" + test -n "$1" && cachefile="$1" + + # dump data. + # .mode ascii: Columns/rows delimited by 0x1F and 0x1E + # get the first fields in the order of the sfeed(5) format. + sqlite3 "$cachefile" <<!EOF | + .headers off + .mode ascii + .output + SELECT + i.pubDate, i.title, i.url, i.content, i.guid, i.author, + i.enclosure_url, + f.rssurl AS rssurl, f.title AS feedtitle --, + -- i.id, i.unread, i.enclosure_type, i.enqueued, i.flags, i.deleted, + -- i.base + FROM rss_feed f + INNER JOIN rss_item i ON i.feedurl = f.rssurl + ORDER BY + i.feedurl ASC, i.pubDate DESC; + .quit + !EOF + # convert to sfeed(5) TSV format. + awk ' + BEGIN { + FS = "\x1f"; + RS = "\x1e"; + } + # strip all control-chars for normal fields. + function strip(s) { + gsub("[[:cntrl:]]", "", s); + return s; + } + # escape chars in content field. + function escape(s) { + gsub("\\\\", "\\\\", s); + gsub("\n", "\\n", s); + gsub("\t", "\\t", s); + return s; + } + function feedname(url, title) { + gsub("/", "_", title); + return title; + } + { + fname = feedname($8, $9); + if (!feed[fname]++) { + print "Writing file: \"" fname "\" (title: " $9 ", url: " $8 ")" > "/dev/stderr"; + } + + print $1 "\t" strip($2) "\t" strip($3) "\t" escape($4) "\t" \ + "html" "\t" strip($5) "\t" strip($6) "\t" strip($7) \ + > fname; + }' + License ------- |