astro / harvester

Harvester 0.7
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Astro (2005-2008)
Neingeist
Tigion
Josef Spillner
Others (MySQL patch)


About
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The Harvester is a web-based RSS-Aggregator

A running instance can be seen at:
http://astroblog.spaceboyz.net/harvester/


Changes
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0.7:
 - XSLT templates
 - Reworked MRSS
 - HTML entity replacement
 - Transactional database handling
 - Favicon, style, photos
 - Microformats in HTML template
 - Chart timeline
 - Jabberbot fixes
 - HTTPS support optional
0.6:
 - Complete rewrite (excl. MRSS)
 - YAML configuration
 - Database backend (PostgreSQL)
 - Fetcher is not using wget anymore and supports SSL, HTTP authentication and If-Modified-Since
 - Fetcher operates threaded to request feeds parallelized
 - Minor template variables renaming
0.5:
 - Fixed a syntax error ;-)
 - Multiple further fixes
 - The Jabber-bot
 - ATOM support by Neingeist
0.4:
 - Blog variables available in <tmpl:iter-item/>
 - index.html Template readability improvements, CSS now in extra
   file
0.3.2:
 - All template elements are now escaped by default. Use
   escape="false" if you really don't want to escape HTML-Tags and
   such...
0.3.1:
 - Fixed bug where incorrect encoded feeds won't be displayed when
   parsed for the first time
0.3:
 - Major overhaul


Installation
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- Prereq: Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD
- DB
- config.yaml
- cronjob
- Templates
- Chart
- Jabberbot