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Wowfunhappy / Pebble-RSS-Reader

A full-text RSS Reader for the Pebble Smartwatch
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add OPML Support #12

Open Cralex opened 4 years ago

Cralex commented 4 years ago

This is probably more helpful when testing updates, but I’d like the ability to save my feeds to a file that I can download to my phone, and then upload later if needed. (Can pebble app settings do that? Maybe a window showing a block of text that could be copied from, hidden behind a debug or developer option would suffice.)

Wowfunhappy commented 4 years ago

There's a standard format for importing/exporting lists of RSS feeds—OPML. This would also give us interoperability with other clients. It's a text-based format, so what we'd probably do is pop up a text box with the OPLM code, and the user could copy/paste as needed.

Unfortunately, I don't see myself getting to this for a very long time, if ever. Pull requests welcome though!

Willow-Systems commented 4 years ago

Whilst OPML sounds good from an interoperability point of view, exporting as a JSON object would probably be much simpler to implement, there also appears to be a few libraries which can do JSON -> OPML.

Is the source for the configuration page public?

Wowfunhappy commented 4 years ago

Is the source for the configuration page public?

Yes, the page is served right from this repo via Github Pages, in the docs folder. :) That said, I would really want any user-facing export to be OPML.

I also think #4 would go a long way towards making adding/removing feeds less painful.

Cralex commented 4 years ago

One current thing with importing from OPML is that the feed title size is currently limited to the number of characters the watch can display, so imported feed titles would either need to be truncated to fit, or the feed titles could be made to scroll if and when that gets figured out.