bootdev-gator

RSS feed aggreGator 🐊. It's a CLI tool that allows users to:

• Add RSS feeds from across the internet to be collected
• Store the collected posts in a PostgreSQL database
• Follow and unfollow RSS feeds that other users have added
• View summaries of the aggregated posts in the terminal, with a link to the full post

RSS feeds are a way for websites to publish updates to their content. You can use this project to keep up with your favorite blogs, news sites, podcasts, and more!

Learning Goals

• Learn how to integrate a Go application with a PostgreSQL database
• Practice using your SQL skills to query and migrate a database (using sqlc and goose, two lightweight tools for typesafe SQL in Go)
• Learn how to write a long-running service that continuously fetches new posts from RSS feeds and stores them in the database

Installation

• The aggreGator 🐊 requires Golang and Postgres as dependencies.
• .gatorconfig.json will be needed as config file. Create this in home director with the structure

{
  "db_url": "connectionString",
  "current_user_name": "userName"
}

• To install the aggreGator 🐊 runs. After this bootdev-gator appears as a command in the shell.

go install

Some commands to run:

• bootdev-gator register <user_name>
• bootdev-gator addfeed <feed_name> <feed_url>
• bootdev-gator agg <duration_per_fetch>
• bootdev-gator browse <take> <skip>