RSS Feed Aggregator

This is a commandline tool for aggregating RSS feeds.

Go and Postgres are required for this program to run.

Installation

After cloning this repo, set up a new db connection in Postgres for this tool and save the connection string.

Add a .env file to the root of the repository with the DB_URL variable. The connection string should look something like postgres://<username>:@<connection>/<db_name>

Install the CLI via go install.

Configuration

This tool references a config file to keep track of the logged in user. In your $HOME directory, add a .gatorconfig.json file with the following structure:

{
	"db_url":<CONNECTION_STRING_GOES_HERE>?sslmode=disable,
	"current_username":""
}

Using the tool

Once installed and configured, you can run the gator cli and various commands.

register <username> will add a new logged in user.

addfeed <feed_name> <feed_url> save a new RSS feed to the db.

agg <time_interval> starts a ticker that will continuously retrieve new posts from a user's followed feeds after every time interval

follow <feed_url> adds a feed to a user's follow list

browse <limit(2)> shows the X most recent posts for the logged in user's feeds (default 2)