rss2mail is for people who want an rss aggregator but think that plain text is just fine. Quite simply it delivers new information from RSS feeds direct to your inbox, one email per feed. Updated items are followed by a Unified diff so you know where they've changed. It's still kinda beta in places but I use it every day and it does me fine. If you do find feeds that it barfs on then let me know.
It probably doesn't work on windows.
On the other hand it does do the right thing with regard to permanent redirects and 304 Content Not Changed.
Usage
# add a feed rss2mail2 -add test_feed -uri http://example.com/index.rss # add a feed using RSS autodiscovery rss2mail2 -add test_feed -uri http://example.com/ -auto # edit feed details rss2mail2 -edit test_feed -uri http://example.com/index.rdf # edit a feed using RSS autodiscovery rss2mail2 -edit test_feed -uri http://example.com/ -auto # list all feeds rss2mail2 -list test_feed: http://example.com/index.rdf # fetch feeds rss2mail2 # delete a feed rss2mail2 -del test_feed
You should see the embeded POD in rss2mail2 for full documentation. perldoc rss2mail2 should get you that.
Requirements
It's Perl and known to work on Perl 5.6.1. Due to the dependancies it probably won't work on earlier versions.
While the default storage uses SQLite it should be fairly easy to make it work with any other database supported by Class::DBI.
The following perl modules are required:
- XML::Feed
- Class::DBI
- Class::DBI::BaseDSN
- Class::DBI::SQLite
- DBI and DBD::SQLite
- Exception::Class
- Text::Diff
- LWP
- MIME::Lite
- Text::Autoformat
- Digest::MD5
- HTML::FormatText::WithLinks
- HTML::TreeBuilder
- MIME::Tools
- List::Util
- AppConfig
If you want better HTML to text conversion then HTML::Lint is required.
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Caveats
It uses XML::Feed so will only deal with the RSS versions handled by that. Check it's documentation for those. In practice it copes with pretty much any RSS mail that I've thrown at it, assuming it's a valid feed.
It's only really been thoroughly tested under Perl 5.8.x but as versions of Perl previous to that don't handle Unicode all that well you probably want to be using that anyway otherwise rss2mail2 falls back to pretty much stripping out any Unicode characters.