rssc scrapes a list of RSS or Atom feeds into an SQLite database and then exits. It is not designed to be used by itself - and users attempting to do will be underwhelmed - but paired with cron and a frontend of some sort. (for example rssc-sendmail)

Dependencies

haskell, hdbc-sqlite3, http-conduit, xml, time-locale-compat

Usage

Building:

$ git clone https://github.com/mikejsavage/rssc
$ make
$ make install

To run (in this case every 15 minutes), add an entry like the following to your crontab:

*/15 * * * * rssc

make install will create an unprivileged rssc user for you and chown its data directory, so I recommend you add the above to rssc's crontab and not root's.

Configuration

The only configuration rssc needs is a list of feeds to scrape. It looks for these in /etc/rssc.conf, which should contain a single URL per line. For example:

http://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom
http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=rss
...