General questions about the "reallysimple" process...

scripting / reallysimple

A Node package that reads RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and calls back with a simple, consistent JavaScript object.

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General questions about the "reallysimple" process... #4

Open scripting opened 2 years ago

scripting commented 2 years ago

I've been working for quite some time, a couple of years at least, on a set of building blocks for feed writing and reading, in time for the twenty-year anniversary of RSS 2.0 in September. Over the last couple of weeks, I've released code for the first lowest-level blocks. I imagine this is a bit hard to grasp at first. I'm here to explain, to answer questions.

Eventually there will be a set of blocks that can be used to build all parts of a feed reading and writing system. What we're doing now is the lowest level of the stack.

A good place to start is the readme for the feeder app, which is the current top level of the reallysimple stack. Try giving it some feeds you know, maybe even your own, and see what it give you back.
Also the docs for feeder templates, another building block.
If you have questions, post a comment below.

scripting commented 2 years ago

One thing to look at is how the mailbox reader handles scripting news.

http://feeder.scripting.com/?template=mailbox&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fscripting.com%2Frss.xml

lots of decisions went into that. works the same for all drummer blogs, so anyone who's using drummer to write their blog can have a look might be interesting.

scripting commented 2 years ago

Something I've been meaning to do -- seeing how a micro.blog feed looks in the mailbox template.

http://feeder.scripting.com/?template=mailbox&feedurl=http://dave.micro.blog/feed.xml

rhempel commented 2 years ago

I've written the guts of reallysimple in Python - currently it takes the NY Times World Headline URL in your example and pushes out a JSONified string of just the items in the feed - with the names adjusted to match the ones in https://github.com/scripting/reallysimple/blob/main/example/test.json

I can build the header for the feed tomorrow and make the repo available publicly - it uses the feedparser package available on PyPi to parse the actual feed into a Python struct - the resolved dictinary names are slightly different than your allowed names, so I made a simple Python dict to map the feedparser names to yours.

Long story short, the port is pretty easy - I guess the use case isn't quite clear to me - unless it's just breaking a feed down into a format that other apps that use the reallysimple format can use.