Web Browser News

[GreenLunar]

News section under Announcements section, similarly to the one that was on USO.

New news items to be featured would be Qupzilla, Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, and WebExtensions.

I think that updates in concern to WebExtensions and the deprecation of XUL API would certainly fit.

[Martii]

Still hunting for a suitable RSS/Atom feed "puller" as well as "pusher" package... until this is assigned you are welcome to go visit https://npmjs.com , do some light reading, and give some recommendations. :)

[GreenLunar]

I find it appropriate to ask, with roughly 600 results for "rss" and over 1000 results for "atom", what do you want me to look up for?

RSS/Atom feed "puller" as well as "pusher" package.

If I understand correctly, you want a package that would download (pull) RSS/Atom feeds and create (push) a feed that would join all the downloaded feeds, is that correct?

Would you accept more than a package to do this task?

[Martii]

Hehe now you see my dilemma in past searches... lots of results and I have other coding tasks to take care of that are of higher priority... basically we need a fully configurable package that preferably has it's own cache, but not mandatory... if we have to make a model for it we will, ... configurable feed urls, limits, etc. This is generally how the node community works... each project handles smaller "things" well and the community at large pulls it all together... assuming you didn't know this and I do constantly teach.

This is probably a later label but perhaps something you've seen somewhere else might be good... so IDK yet.

[GreenLunar]

I think, I have found a nominee.
https://github.com/nikezono/node-combine-rss
https://www.npmjs.com/package/combine-rss

[GreenLunar]

assuming you didn't know this and I do constantly teach.

Please do assume so.
Your elaborations and explanations are useful to me.

[Martii]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/combine-rss

Some observations:

• ~3 years since last update... yellow flag
• No Licensing detected in initial sweep... red flag... must be FOSS and GPL cooperative (most OSI is if it's a module/package)
• Coffee script based (see below ref) ... red flag
• Not much activity for updates... means one of two things... either it's really good or really bad/abandoned ... white flag

Misc:

• We don't mind if it's not "popular" with downloading stats as long as it's stable ... white flag
• Try to avoid jQuery only based packages... it's starting to negatively impact newer browsers in a bad way... yellow flag if only jQuery js

Generally with packages we like to start with middleware first, then asynchronous, and dead last synchronous packages... all JavaScript (ECMAScript based). "On the fly" is recommended because we would like to be able to use a JSON to configure it dynamically.

The "flags" are my own internal system and is usually what determines if a package if viable or not. We used to have a basic html sanitizer but it was quite limited before I came on board... now we have the top rated, most supported, nice professional maintainers, good documentation, good activity, stability, etc.

Refs:

• https://github.com/OpenUserJs/OpenUserJS.org/blob/master/STYLEGUIDE.md#restrictions (see coffee script bases)

There are a lot of ideas that we share from USO that I would like to implement here but every spare moment of free time is taken with the labeled priorities and other duties... so any help is much appreciated. The other members have their own lives too but contribute when they can. The TOS pretty much explains it all... progress can be slow at times and faster at other times.

[GreenLunar]

rss-braider

Braid/aggregate one or more RSS feeds (file or url) into a single feed (RSS or JSON output). Process resulting feed through specified plugins. Automatic deduplication

License: MIT

https://github.com/KQED/rss-braider
https://www.npmjs.com/package/rss-braider
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=combine%20rss

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feedmix

Merge RSS 2.0 feed(s) into a feed.

License: MIT

https://github.com/hail2u/node-feedmix
https://www.npmjs.com/package/feedmix
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=5

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Congregator RSS-feed Reader

This is an attempt to make a rss-feed parser that can parse the html content of an rss-entry as well as the entries themselves. It will give you an output of formatted JSON-articles which can be processed at will. It also has the ability to visit the article links and fetch a processed version of the content (done by node-read). Now go and build your own feedly! :)

License: MIT

https://github.com/eiriklv/congregator-rssreader
https://www.npmjs.com/package/rssreader
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=5

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json2rss

Converts a json file into an RSS feed
Quick and dirty RSS generator from JSON files
Built for use with Harp server and static site generation

License: BSD

https://github.com/trodrigues/json2rss
https://www.npmjs.com/package/json2rss
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=5

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zzparser

feed to json

License: Unknown

https://github.com/vflash/zzparser
https://www.npmjs.com/package/zzparser
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=4

Extra resources
http://vflash.ru/
http://zzreader.com/

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Update: April 29th, 2016
Continue from https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=8 at absolution by boutell

Stopped https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=11 at jstoxml by davidcalhoun ( 638 results for ‘rss’ )
Stopped https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=planet&page=11 at 25th-style by jauer ( 212 results for ‘planet’ )

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opml-generator and opml-generator2

Generate opml from object.

License: MIT

https://github.com/azu/opml-generator
https://www.npmjs.com/package/opml-generator2
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=8

https://github.com/azu/opml-generator
https://www.npmjs.com/package/opml-generator
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=9

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reactifier

A blog post aggregator bringing together React developers from across the globe.

License: MIT

https://github.com/bkonkle/reactifier
https://www.npmjs.com/package/reactifier
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=9

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feedtitles

Extract titles from rss feeds (npm)
Extract titles from an rss feed (git)

License: MIT

https://github.com/TJkrusinski/feedtitles
https://www.npmjs.com/package/feedtitles
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=9

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manger

The manger Node package caches RSS and Atom formatted XML feeds using LevelUP. It provides an interface to query entries by feed and time.

License: MIT

https://github.com/michaelnisi/manger
https://www.npmjs.com/package/manger
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=10

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molecule-js

RSS / Atom Blog Feed Aggregator

License: MIT

https://github.com/jahed/molecule-js
https://www.npmjs.com/package/molecule-js
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=planet&page=2

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cupid

An alternative of venus the feed aggregator

License: MIT

https://github.com/dotnil/cupid
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cupid
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=planet&page=3

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name

description

License: license

https://github.com/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=

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[GreenLunar]

No Licensing... red flag... must be FOSS and GPL cooperative (most OSI is if it's a module/package)

For record, combine-rss is licensed under BSD.

[GreenLunar]

It feels, to me, that Congregator RSS-feed Reader would be a good choice. Perhaps, not; we mostly need to display titles, so I think.

[GreenLunar]

Would you accept a command-line feed reader package, and generate a feed with another package?

Readers
https://github.com/yeexel/node-reader
https://github.com/lorefnon/amelia

Generators
https://github.com/JamieREvans/node-rss
https://github.com/dylang/node-rss
https://github.com/exeto/fullrss

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Note to myself, I have stopped at page https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=rss&page=8 at absolution by boutell

[Martii]

Would you accept a command-line feed reader package

The general terminology across the board for this type is CLI (Command Line Interface)... as long as it has a matching API as well, that we can programmatically use in node, it's fine if it has a CLI tool too... however I won't be adding a cron task in the VPS for CLI updating nor the process manager... the task needs to be done in our code via node.

... I have stopped at page...

Well you've given quite a few... very much appreciated and thank you... I'll spend some time checking them out... one by one... in between other issues. :)

[Martii]

Hmmm I am seeing a pattern here with the current candidates... all seem to be missing Atom support. We need both RSS 2.0 and Atom aggregation... and would prefer it in one package if possible.

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• A newer RSS feeds aggregator at https://github.com/filipedeschamps/rss-feed-emitter ... tested okay with Atom even though it's not mentioned anywhere but the keywords. hmmm. No limits though... that could get a little noisy (traffic wise).
• Combo at https://github.com/fent/node-feedsub ... single feed pull; would require aggregation with multiple feeds... has "smart" limits... untested yet

[GreenLunar]

Please do let me know what is missing and I will resume seeking. Eventually, I will lookup for a package that does it all.

What are has "smart" limits?

[Martii]

What are ... "smart" limits?

https://github.com/fent/node-feedsub#new-feedsubfeed-options ... see maxHistory, skipHours, skipDays, etc... e.g. general limits on when/what not to pull. Also the current description at https://github.com/fent/node-feedsub#feedsub which says:

It works by checking the feed every once in a while, comparing the date of the document via a conditional GET if supported. Otherwise it looks for a date tag in the feed. If it's the same as the last date, it stops downloading it and parsing the xml/json. If it's an updated document, then it looks through it top to bottom taking note of all the new items. Once it finds something it has already read, it stops downloading and parsing the document.

... stopping parsing of the document download is a very big plus!

One problem I see currently with all of them so far is when I restart the server it has to download everything again in order to store the "history" in memory... this is where we can model in something for "last date" and some other API method/property from a package/project. e.g. don't continue to pull earlier than this date/time which seems to be missing for a manual specification... although skipDays might be transformable from a "last date" that we store.