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2023-12-09improve compatibility with zsh as a non-interactive shellHiltjo Posthuma
In zsh the variables $path and $status are special. https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Parameters.html#index-path https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Parameters.html#index-status (No promises I will keep up with this insanity in the future though)
2023-06-09README: improve note about CDNs and user-agent blockingHiltjo Posthuma
Prompted by a question from a user. Specificly mention reddit.com now blocks clients which don't set the User-Agent header. It is specificly mentioned because there is a reddit feed in the example sfeedrc.
2023-06-09sfeed_update/sfeedrc: add url as parameter to the filter() and order() functionHiltjo Posthuma
This might make it easier to set filters or ordering by pattern matching on a group of feeds by the feed URL. For example youtube or reddit feeds. Another way which was already possible is prefixing names with for example: "reddit somename" or "yt somename".
2023-05-16README: RSS 0.90+ is supported, not 0.91+Hiltjo Posthuma
See also: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-0
2023-05-07iterate on previous commit which adds $SFEED_NEW_MAX_SECSHiltjo Posthuma
Separate the common pattern to get the time to compare new items in format tools to the new util function: getcomparetime(). Some changes and notes: - Change it so it is OK to set this value to 0 or negative (in the future). - sfeed_curses: truncating newmaxsecs to an int would limit the value too much. - Just use strtotime() and parse the value to time_t. This is a signed long (32-bit, until 2038) or signed long long (64-bit) on most platforms. - sfeed_curses gets the comparison time on reload aswell and it needs errno = 0, because it uses die(). time() is not guaranteed to set an errno if it fails. - Rename environment variable to $SFEED_NEW_AGE.
2023-05-07sfeed_{curses,frames,gopher,html,plain}: SFEED_NEW_MAX_SECSAlvar Penning
By introducing the new environment variable $SFEED_NEW_MAX_SECS in all sfeed_* utilities marking feeds as new based on comparing their age, it is now possible to override this age limit. This allows, for example, to be notified about new feeds within the last hour with SFEED_NEW_MAX_SECS=3600 sfeed_plain ~/.sfeed/feeds/* while creating a beautiful web report for last week's news by SFEED_NEW_MAX_SECS=604800 sfeed_html ~/.sfeed/feeds/*
2023-04-12fix some typosHiltjo Posthuma
2023-04-10sfeed_json: add JSON output format toolHiltjo Posthuma
This outputs the TSV data to JSON. It uses a subset of JSON Feed 1.1: https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/
2023-04-06README: sfeed_download: change youtube-dl to yt-dlpHiltjo Posthuma
This is an active maintained fork.
2023-04-06README: improve error checking for temporary files in examplesHiltjo Posthuma
Similar to the recent fix for sfeed_update in commit 5a27c58675ddf4113d64a84f715cb3fecb681a6d
2023-04-06README: fix typo JSONfeed -> JSON FeedHiltjo Posthuma
https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/
2023-03-26README: add Open Watcom as a tested compilerHiltjo Posthuma
Tested sfeed, sfeed_plain and sfeed_html for now. There are minor changes required for sfeed and some additional compatibility function changes required to make the format tools compile. Rough list of changes required: - xml.c: rename getchar_unlocked -> getchar - sfeed.c: EOVERFLOW -> ENOMEM - wcwidth: just filter ASCII range < 32 = -1 and > 127 = 0, rest = 1. - getline - localtime_r -> just do a localtime + memcpy. Make sure to increase stack size when compiling: owcc -k32768 -Os -s -o sfeed.exe sfeed.c util.c xml.c Resulting .exe binary is 27KB, 17KB compressed with UPX. The HTML output looks fine in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 3 :)
2023-02-17sfeed_update, sfeed_opml_export, README: reference the example sfeedrc man pageHiltjo Posthuma
... and some small rewording.
2023-02-16README: small rewording in how to add new parsed tags and fieldsHiltjo Posthuma
2023-02-04README: describe how to add new parsed tags and fields to sfeed.cHiltjo Posthuma
2022-12-28README: small rewording "can be supported" -> "are supported"Hiltjo Posthuma
2022-06-21fix some typisNRK
found via codespell $ codespell --ignore-regex Nd
2022-06-18README: add setsid exampleHiltjo Posthuma
2022-05-31README: fix bug in an example for counting the new items of the last dayHiltjo Posthuma
This should not use the plain-text URL file ($SFEED_URL_FILE).
2022-05-19README: make sure sfeed_update errors don't write to stderrHiltjo Posthuma
It would mess up the output since the progress bar writes to stderr aswell.
2022-05-14README: add progress indicator scriptHiltjo Posthuma
2022-04-01README: reflect example with the descriptionHiltjo Posthuma
2022-03-28update documentation of sfeed_update example and clarify return statusHiltjo Posthuma
Change the example to reload the feeds anyway, even if one of the feeds (temporarily) failed to update.
2022-03-25change echo to printf and for sfeed_opml_export use a control-character ↵Hiltjo Posthuma
separator echo is unportable in this way and names containing characters like an option (-n) or backslash or escape codes (\e, \n, etc) could be messy. For awk set LC_ALL=C for simple collation. This makes sfeed_opml_export slower in some shells that don't have printf builtin though. For example with about 150 feeds in a config file it is a bit slower on OpenBSD ksh. time ./sfeed_opml_export | wc -l 152 0m00.29s real 0m00.05s user 0m00.20s system time sfeed_opml_export | wc -l 152 0m00.02s real 0m00.00s user 0m00.03s system
2022-03-22README: sfeed_download: remove a lineHiltjo Posthuma
2022-03-22README: improve error handling in downloader exampleHiltjo Posthuma
- Return exit code, which makes xargs return 123 when any of the downloads failed. - Write errors to stderr. - Write non-errors to stdout.
2022-03-21README: update sfeed_update_xargs exampleHiltjo Posthuma
Set exit status non-zero if any of the feeds failed similar to what sfeed_update also does now.
2022-03-21util.h: slightly improve portabilityHiltjo Posthuma
Tested with the scc compiler which is a pure c99 compiler. sys/types.h is not needed here anymore (it was used for ssize_t). Side-note: scc can now compile the sfeed parser program! It requires these changes at the time of writing: Add a strcasecmp and strncasecmp function and use getchar instead of getchar_unlocked.
2022-03-07README: update codemadness.org URLs and use the full content feed by defaultHiltjo Posthuma
2022-03-05README: add a note about mouse button encoding issues in some terminalsHiltjo Posthuma
Maybe this is out-of-scope for the sfeed documentation though.
2022-02-26README: small rewordingHiltjo Posthuma
2022-02-26README: example scripts to count new and unread itemsHiltjo Posthuma
2022-01-06README: sfeed_download small changesHiltjo Posthuma
2022-01-06README: small typo and rewording for sfeed_download exampleHiltjo Posthuma
2022-01-06README: add a listing of the formats supportedHiltjo Posthuma
2022-01-06README: add sfeed_download example, parallel downloader/extractorHiltjo Posthuma
2021-12-23README: improve newsboat export scriptHiltjo Posthuma
Performance improvements, use feed URL if the feed title is not (yet) set.
2021-12-23README: add GNU/HurdHiltjo Posthuma
tested for fun
2021-11-26README: reword the part mentioning SFEED_THEMEHiltjo Posthuma
2021-11-26README: small rewordingHiltjo Posthuma
2021-11-26README: merge the contents of the README of sfeed_cursesHiltjo Posthuma
2021-10-24README: tested with the compiler chibicc and RISCV64 VM (OpenBSD and Linux)Hiltjo Posthuma
chibicc (amd64): https://github.com/rui314/chibicc
2021-07-06README: add a simplified version of printing the first enclosureHiltjo Posthuma
This works on sfeed(5) feed output since they are already sorted.
2021-06-05README: fix typo in a commentHiltjo Posthuma
2021-06-05README: fix escape sequence which is non-POSIXHiltjo Posthuma
The "\s" escape sequence is non-POSIX and GNU awk gives a warning: gawk: cmd. line:69: warning: escape sequence `\s' treated as plain `s' BSD awk does not give this warning and supports it. Use the POSIX [[:space:]] character class instead. References: - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html The table in the section "Regular Expressions". - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap05.html#tag_05
2021-06-01portability and standards: add BSD-like err() and errx() functionsHiltjo Posthuma
These are BSD functions. - HaikuOS now compiles without having to use libbsd. - Tested on SerenityOS (for fun), which doesn't have these functions (yet). With a small change to support wcwidth() sfeed works on SerenityOS.
2021-04-28README: update newsboat export scriptHiltjo Posthuma
Since newsboat version 2.22 (2020-12-21) it stores the content mime-type of a field so allow to export this. The older entries are empty and will be exported as "html" (even though they might have been plain-text). ... also add the (empty) category field.
2021-03-02README: workaround empty fields with *BSD xargs -0Hiltjo Posthuma
Workaround it by setting the empty "middle" fields to some value. The last field can be empty. Some feeds were incorrectly using the wrong base URL if the `baseurl` field was empty but the encoding field was set. So it incorrectly used the encoding field instead. Only now noticed some feeds were failing because the baseURL is validated since commit f305b032bc19b4e81c0dd6c0398370028ea910ca and returning a non-zero exit status. This doesn't happen with GNU xargs, busybox or toybox xargs. Affected (atleast): OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD xargs which share similar code. Simple way to reproduce the difference: printf 'a\0\0c\0' | xargs -0 echo Prints "a c" on *BSD. Prints "a c" on GNU xargs (and some other implementations).
2021-03-01README: combine bandwidth saving options into one sectionHiltjo Posthuma
Combine E-Tags, If-Modified-Since in one section. Also mention the curl --compression option for typically GZIP decompression. Note that E-Tags were broken in curl <7.73 due to a bug with "weak" e-tags. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5610 From a question/feedback by e-mail from Hadrien Lacour, thanks.
2021-02-05sfeed_update: $SFEED_UPDATE_INCLUDE: be a bit more precise/pedanticHiltjo Posthuma
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