wikichat-rss

Summary

• Installation
• Start
• Use
• TTL
• Tip

Installation

git clone https://github.com/maxlath/wikichat-rss
cd wikichat-rss
npm install

Start

• As a normal process

npm start
# Check that everything is fine
curl http://localhost:5432/?feed=project-chat

• As a daemon handled by systemd

# Uses sudo so you will be prompt for your password
npm run add-to-systemd
sudo systemctl start wikichat-rss
# Check that everything is fine
sudo systemctl status wikichat-rss
curl http://localhost:5432/?feed=project-chat

Use

After having started the server, simply pass one of the feed URL to your local RSS aggregator.

• Wikidata Project chat => http://localhost:5432/?feed=project-chat
• Books WikiProject => http://localhost:5432/?feed=books-project

Edit ./feeds.js to add more. Should hopefully work: it's based on scrapping those pages, which is always somewhat dirty.

TTL

Feeds are cached with a TTL of 12 hours. This can be customized in ./config/default.js

Tip

I'm using it locally with Thunderbird (tuto: en, fr), but in case you need to use it with an online aggregator, you will need to make this server accessible from the all mighty Internet.