r2e(1) [debian man page]
R2E(1) General Commands Manual R2E(1) NAME
r2e - receive RSS feeds by email SYNOPSIS
r2e [-d dir] action [options] DESCRIPTION
r2e is a simple program which you can run in your crontab. It watches RSS feeds and sends you nicely formatted email message for each new item. The program is configured by ~/.rss2email/config.py by default. To use a different config file in a different directory, you can specify the -d option before any actions. For a quick start with r2e, try these steps: r2e new your@address r2e add http://feed.url/somewhere.rss r2e run The last command should eventually be put into your crontab, if you want things be sent you automatically. It is possible to use authenticated feeds using the following syntax: r2e add http://user:password@example.com/feed ACTIONS
new [youremail] Create a new feedfile. If the second option is specified, it sets the default email address that mails are sent to. add url [youremail] Subscribe to a feed. The first option is the URL of the feed. The optional second option is the email address to send new items to. Repeat for each feed you want to subscribe to. run [--no-send] [num] Scan the feeds and send emails for new items. This can be run in a cron job. The --no-send option stops r2e from sending any email. This can be useful the first time you run it, as otherwise it would send every available story. If a number is specified, r2e will only download that feed. The list command lists the feed numbers. email yournewemail Change the default email address. list List all your currently subscribed feeds. delete n Delete a feed, using its number from the list command. pause n Temporarily ignore a feed. A paused feed won't be updated at all. unpause n Re-enable updates from a feed. opmlimport url Import feeds from an OPML file. opmlexport Export feeds to standard output, as an OPML file. CONFIGURATION
The program's behavior can be controlled via the ~/.rss2email/config.py config file. The file is a python file, so variables are set using a syntax like this: VARIABLE = "value" If the value is a number, the quotes may be omitted. Most configuration variables in the file are boolean values, where a 1 indicates the option is set, and a 0 disables it. See the example config.py file for a full list of available configuration variables. FILES
~/.rss2email/feeds.dat The database of feeds. Use r2e to add, remove, or modify feeds, do not edit it directly. ~/.rss2email/config.py If this file exists, it it read to configure the program. AUTHOR
Aaron Swartz <rss2email@aaronsw.com> R2E(1)
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pubsub(1) BSD General Commands Manual pubsub(1) NAME
pubsub -- Utility for managing RSS/Atom subscriptions via the PubSub framework SYNOPSIS
pubsub [--client bundleID] subcommand [parameters] OPTIONS
The available options are as follows: --client Force tool to act as one specific client ENVIRONMENT
The pubsub tool is a command-line utility for interacting with the PubSub framework. It is intended for troubleshooting, as a simple way to see at a glance all the feed subscriptions that the agent will be periodically fetching, and to delete any left-over subscriptions (for exam- ple, of an application that's been deleted.) If the --client flag is given, the tool will act only on the PubSub client with the given bundle ID. For example, pubsub list will list only the feeds that client is subscribed to. Some subcommands, such as subscribe, require a client to be specified. The following subcommands are supported. Note that some have multi-word names. If no subcommand is given, a short listing of their names will be output. list Lists all feeds (of all clients, or of the specific client if the -client flag is given.) The title, URL and refresh interval of each feed are shown. Note that a feed subscribed by multiple clients will be listed once per client, and that each client may specify a different refresh interval. However, the PubSub agent will only fetch one copy of the feed, at the minimum interval. The interval is listed in parentheses if it is inherited from the client's default refresh interval. The interval is followed by a " * " if the feed will be refreshed even when the client application is not currently running. The interval is followed by a " * " if file enclosures will automatically be downloaded. list clients Lists all registered clients by bundle ID, along with their number of subscriptions. list client bundleID Lists only the feeds subscribed to by the given client. unsubscribe URL Unsubscribes from the feed with the given URL. subscribe URL Subscribes the client (which must be specified using --client ) to the given feed. list URL Lists all entries currently stored for the given feed. dump URL Prints the raw XML of the feed, as it was last fetched from the network. list entry identifier Lists the attributes of an individual entry, given its identifier (a 40-char hex string). dump entry identifier Prints the XML of an entry, given its identifier (a 40-char hex string). refresh URL Fetches the feed from the network immediately, and updates the database if it has changed. listen [timestamp] Installs a PSClient delegate and listens for changes to subscribed feeds and entries, printing messages when they occur. If a time- stamp is given, all changes that have occurred since that time will first be printed. The timestamp is given as a number of seconds since the system "reference date", i.e. the same as the result of -[NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate]. list downloads Lists all enclosures currently being downloaded. list enclosures Lists all enclosures, and their current download status. FILES
~/Library/PubSub/ Per-user PubSub configuration/data directory EXAMPLES
pubsub list pubsub --client com.example.SurfNews subscribe http://example.com/UninterestingFeed.xml pubsub unsubscribe http://example.com/UninterestingFeed.xml Mac OS X 10.5 February 1, 2007 Mac OS X 10.5