.Dd December 26, 2023
.Dt SFEEDRC 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sfeedrc
.Nd sfeed_update(1) configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the configuration file for
.Xr sfeed_update 1 .
.Sh VARIABLES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Va sfeedpath
can be set for the directory to store the TAB-separated feed files.
The default is
.Pa $HOME/.sfeed/feeds .
.It Va maxjobs
can be used to change the amount of concurrent
.Fn feed
jobs.
The default is 16.
.El
.Sh FUNCTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fn feeds
This function is the required "main" entry-point function called from
.Xr sfeed_update 1 .
.It Fn feed "name" "feedurl" "basesiteurl" "encoding"
Inside the
.Fn feeds
function feeds can be defined by calling the
.Fn feed
function, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Name of the feed, this is also used as the filename for the TAB-separated
feed file.
The feed name cannot contain the '/' character because it is a path separator,
they will be replaced with '_'.
Each
.Fa name
should be unique.
.It Fa feedurl
URL to fetch the RSS/Atom data from, usually a HTTP or HTTPS URL.
.It Op Fa basesiteurl
Base URL of the feed links.
This argument allows to fix relative item links.
.Pp
According to the RSS and Atom specification feeds should always have absolute
URLs, however this is not always the case in practise.
.It Op Fa encoding
Feeds are decoded from this name to UTF-8, the name should be a usable
character-set for the
.Xr iconv 1
tool.
.El
.El
.Sh OVERRIDE FUNCTIONS
Because
.Xr sfeed_update 1
is a shellscript each function can be overridden to change its behaviour,
notable functions are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fn fetch "name" "url" "feedfile"
Fetch feed from URL and write the data to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Specified name in configuration file (useful for logging).
.It Fa url
URL to fetch.
.It Fa feedfile
Used feedfile (useful for comparing modification times).
.El
.Pp
By default the tool
.Xr curl 1
is used.
.It Fn convertencoding "name" "from" "to"
Convert data from stdin from one text-encoding to another and write it to
stdout,
its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Feed name.
.It Fa from
From text-encoding.
.It Fa to
To text-encoding.
.El
.Pp
By default the tool
.Xr iconv 1
is used.
.It Fn parse "name" "feedurl" "basesiteurl"
Read RSS/Atom XML data from stdin, convert and write it as
.Xr sfeed 5
data to stdout.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Name of the feed.
.It Fa feedurl
URL of the feed.
.It Fa basesiteurl
Base URL of the feed links.
This argument allows to fix relative item links.
.El
.It Fn filter "name" "url"
Filter
.Xr sfeed 5
data from stdin and write it to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Feed name.
.It Fa url
URL of the feed.
.El
.It Fn merge "name" "oldfile" "newfile"
Merge
.Xr sfeed 5
data of oldfile with newfile and write it to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Feed name.
.It Fa oldfile
Old file.
.It Fa newfile
New file.
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.It Fn order "name" "url"
Sort
.Xr sfeed 5
data from stdin and write it to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fa name
Feed name.
.It Fa url
URL of the feed.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
An example configuration file is included named sfeedrc.example and also
shown below:
.Bd -literal
#sfeedpath="$HOME/.sfeed/feeds"

# list of feeds to fetch:
feeds() {
	# feed <name> <feedurl> [basesiteurl] [encoding]
	feed "codemadness" "https://www.codemadness.org/atom_content.xml"
	feed "explosm" "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm"
	feed "golang github releases" "https://github.com/golang/go/releases.atom"
	feed "linux kernel" "https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml" "https://www.kernel.org"
	feed "reddit openbsd" "https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/.rss"
	feed "slashdot" "http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot" "http://slashdot.org"
	feed "tweakers" "http://feeds.feedburner.com/tweakers/mixed" "http://tweakers.net" "iso-8859-1"
	# get youtube Atom feed: curl -s -L 'https://www.youtube.com/user/gocoding/videos' | sfeed_web | cut -f 1
	feed "youtube golang" "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCO3LEtymiLrgvpb59cNsb8A"
	feed "xkcd" "https://xkcd.com/atom.xml" "https://xkcd.com"
}
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.Pp
To change the default
.Xr curl 1
options for fetching the data, the
.Fn fetch
function can be overridden and added at the top of the
.Nm
file:
.Bd -literal
# fetch(name, url, feedfile)
fetch() {
	# allow for 1 redirect, set User-Agent, timeout is 15 seconds.
	curl -L --max-redirs 1 -H "User-Agent: 007" -f -s -m 15 \e
		"$2" 2>/dev/null
}
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr curl 1 ,
.Xr iconv 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_update 1 ,
.Xr sh 1
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org