NAME

sfeed — simple RSS and Atom parser

SYNOPSIS

sfeed

[suffix string]

DESCRIPTION

sfeed reads RSS or Atom feed data (XML) from stdin. It writes the feed data in a tab-separated format to stdout.

TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS

The items are saved in a TSV-like format except newlines, tabs and backslash are escaped with \ (\n, \t and \\). Carriage returns (\r) are removed. The order and format of the fields are:

item timestamp

string, UNIX timestamp in GMT+0

item timestamp

string, date and time in the format: YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS tzname[+-]HHMM

item title

string

item link

string

item content

string

item content-type

string, "html" or "plain"

item id

string

item author

string

feed type

string, "rss" or "atom"

SEE ALSO

sh(1), sfeed_update(1)

AUTHORS

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>