blogAggregator

This is a CLI RSS aggregator that supports multiple users and feeds.

Requirements & Setup:

• postgres

• goose

• Make sure your postgres user is configured

• Create a db in postgres

  • CREATE DATABASE gator; (this can be a different name as long as the connection string matches)

• go install github.com/pressly/goose/v3/cmd/goose@latest

• run goose -dir sql/schema postgres postgres://postgres:$password@localhost:5432/$DB up

Create a config file ~/.gatorconfig.json and add db config in the format of:

{
  "db_url": "postgres://postgres:$password@localhost:5432/$DB?sslmode=disable"
}

Note: TLS is currently disabled on purpose

To build and run: go build && ./blogAggregator go install https://github.com/kevinarchambeau/blogAggregator should also work

Commands

Commands will print usage info if command can't be completed

• login - sets the current user.
  • usage: login $user
• register - add a user and set them as the current user.
  • usage: register $user
• users - lists all users
• addfeed - add a feed to the list.
  • usage addfeed $name $url
• feeds - lists all feeds
• follow - follow an existing feed another user has added.
  • usage: follow $url
• following - lists all feeds the current user is following
• unfollow - remove a feed from the current user.
  • usage: unfollow $url
• agg - loops through all feeds on a timer and saves posts to the db.
  • usage: agg $time (e.g. 60s, 1m, 1h)
• browse - lists posts from all feeds the current user is following, sorted by date(ascending).
  • usage: browse $limit (defaults to 2)
• reset - Resets the db for easy testing