Building a simple RSS reader that fetches feeds from an OPML file and generates a simple html hierarchy with the posts grouped per site and category (if the OPML file had categories).
No intention of building any complex website, just cron-based runs dumping new entries, not even deleting old ones (list will anyway only reflect latest N items). Keep minimum state.
Here's how it looks:
If a feed/site has no news (returns an http 304), it will keep the existing list of posts.
Version 1.0 was more Python heavy. Version 2.0 basically uses Python only for the backend (RSS fetch), storing in JSON files that then get read and rendered by a tiny Preact-based frontend (client-side, no need for SSR).
Just need Docker, but to setup without containers:
pip3 install -r /code/requirements.txt
From the outside:
make run
Without Docker:
python3 run.py feeds subscriptions.xml
An index.html file will be placed at feeds/index.html once finished fetching. That's your "reader" entry point.
Also, a settings-v2.json file will be generated. Inside it, you can add urls to the skip urls setting (e.g. if a feed is not working with PBRR). It's a list of strings, you can manually add new entries, for example "https://site-to-skip.test".
Another "internal hack" you can do inside the settings file is add new entries under the category_emoji_icons block, for example: ""category_emoji_icons": {"News - Games": "🎮"}" and it will render the emoji after the site if its category matches.
make shell
python3 run.py feeds subscriptions.xml
Uses:
- Beautiful Soup, because makes parsing HTML and XML way more pleasant
- Milligram, because my CSS skills equal to
nulland I wanted something minimalistic - Preact, because I wanted all Javascript to be client-side, but at the same time wanted to begin practising with React
- feedparser for easier handling of feeds, and yet, they keep causing headaches
To be able to perform AJAX calls in local, with Firefox you need to allow CORS with local file:// urls: type about:config and set privacy.file_unique_origin to false (remember to change it back to true when finished!).
For the time being, no intention of adding tests to the project.
- run mypy on pre-commit if possible
See LICENSE.
