RSS Aggregator CLI

RSS Aggregator is a command-line interface (CLI) for aggregating RSS feeds. It allows you to register as a user, add feeds, follow and unfollow feeds, and browse the latest posts from your followed feeds.

Prerequisites

To run this program, you need to have the following installed:

• Go
• PostgreSQL

Installation

To install the rss_aggregator CLI, run the following command:

go install github.com/dothedada/rss_aggregator

This will install the rss_aggregator binary in your Go bin directory.

Configuration

Before running the program, you need to set up the configuration file.

1. Create a file named .rss_aggregator.json in your home directory.
2. Add the following content to the file:

{
  "db_url": "YOUR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_STRING"
}

Replace "YOUR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_STRING" with your actual PostgreSQL connection string. For example:

{
  "db_url": "postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/rss_aggregator?sslmode=disable"
}

Running the Program

Once you have installed and configured the program, you can run it from the command line.

Commands

Here are some of the available commands:

• register <username> <password>: Register a new user.
• login <username> <password>: Log in as a user.
• addfeed <name> <url>: Add a new RSS feed.
• follow <url>: Follow a feed.
• following: List the feeds you are currently following.
• browse: Browse the latest posts from your followed feeds.
• unfollow <url>: Unfollow a feed.
• users: List all registered users.
• feeds: List all available feeds.
• agg <duration>: Periodically scrapes feeds. e.g., agg 1m.

Example Usage

# Register a new user
rss_aggregator register myuser mypassword

# Log in
rss_aggregator login myuser mypassword

# Add a new feed
rss_aggregator addfeed "Bla bla bla" https://some-shit.dev/rss.xml

# Follow a feed
rss_aggregator follow https://some-shit.dev/rss.xml

# List followed feeds
rss_aggregator following

# Browse posts
rss_aggregator browse