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authorHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2019-01-25 13:50:43 +0100
committerHiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>2019-01-25 13:50:43 +0100
commite46d200e0cb2ffb79a7d542f65809e1bb14c445c (patch)
tree0438b9ec357fdcc20dd109d80ce2ff6cbde9b2ea /sfeedrc.5
parent69459b1ef6af55ea1c6e83947e939baacb3e93c8 (diff)
documentation improvements
Man pages: - sfeed_update: fix: fetchfeed parameter documentation. - sfeed_update: fix/update: urls in sfeedrc.example. - sfeed_update: document maxjobs variable. - sfeedrc: document filter and order functions here. - more semantic keywords: function arguments and some Nm. README: - Document more clearly sfeedrc is a shellscript at the first usage "steps". - Add newsboat OPML export and import to sfeed_update example. - Document the Makefile is POSIX (not some GNU/Makefile). - Add reference to my tool hurl: a HTTP/HTTPS/Gopher file grab client. - Describe the reason/usefulness of the filter example. - Describe how to override curl(1), an optional dependency. With feedback from lich, thanks!
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-.Dd January 30, 2016
+.Dd January 25, 2019
.Dt SFEEDRC 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -17,27 +17,27 @@ by default this is
.
.Sh FUNCTIONS
The following functions must be defined in a
-.Xr sfeedrc 5
+.Nm
file:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It feeds
+.It Fn feeds
This function is like a "main" function called from
.Xr sfeed_update 1 .
-.It feed
+.It Fn feed "name" "feedurl" "basesiteurl" "encoding"
Function to process the feed, its arguments are in the order:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It name
+.It Fa name
Name of the feed, this is also used as the filename for the TAB-separated
feed file.
-.It feedurl
+.It Fa feedurl
Uri to fetch the RSS/Atom data from, usually a HTTP or HTTPS uri.
-.It Op basesiteurl
+.It Op Fa basesiteurl
Baseurl 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 encoding
+.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
@@ -50,38 +50,52 @@ Because
is a shellscript each function can be overridden to change its behaviour,
notable functions are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It fetchfeed
+.It Fn fetchfeed "name" "uri" "feedfile"
Fetch feed from url and writes data to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It uri
-Uri to fetch.
-.It name
+.It Fa name
Specified name in configuration file (useful for logging).
-.It feedfile
+.It Fa uri
+Uri to fetch.
+.It Fa feedfile
Used feedfile (useful for comparing modification times).
.El
-.It merge
+.It Fn merge "name" "oldfile" "newfile"
Merge data of oldfile with newfile and writes it to stdout, its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It oldfile
+.It Fa name
+Feed name.
+.It Fa oldfile
Old file.
-.It newfile
+.It Fa newfile
New file.
.El
-.It convertencoding
+.It Fn filter "name"
+Filter
+.Xr sfeed 5
+data from stdin, write to stdout, its arguments are:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fa name
+Feed name.
+.El
+.It Fn order "name"
+Sort
+.Xr sfeed 5
+data from stdin, write to stdout, its arguments are:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fa name
+Feed name.
+.El
+.It Fn convertencoding "from" "to"
Convert from text-encoding to another and writes it to stdout, its arguments
are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It from
+.It Fa from
From text-encoding.
-.It to
+.It Fa to
To text-encoding.
.El
.El
-.Pp
-See the convertencoding() function in the script
-.Xr sfeed_update 1
-for more details.
.Sh EXAMPLES
An example configuration file is included named sfeedrc.example and also
shown below:
@@ -91,14 +105,16 @@ shown below:
# list of feeds to fetch:
feeds() {
# feed <name> <feedurl> [basesiteurl] [encoding]
- feed "codemadness" "http://www.codemadness.nl/rss.xml"
+ feed "codemadness" "https://www.codemadness.nl/atom.xml"
feed "explosm" "http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm"
- feed "linux kernel" "http://kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml" "http://kernel.org"
+ 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 "yt golang" "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCO3LEtymiLrgvpb59cNsb8A"
- feed "xkcd" "http://xkcd.com/atom.xml" "http://xkcd.com"
+ feed "youtube golang" "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCO3LEtymiLrgvpb59cNsb8A"
+ feed "xkcd" "https://xkcd.com/atom.xml" "https://xkcd.com"
}
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO