golang

RSSNEST

A little program to download audio/visual content from a list of rss feeds. Also tweet and create a web page from the content, as well as the gold and silver prices.

Target computer is a raspberry pi.

Quick start

GO

Assuming you are using linux there is a handy compile script linuxComp.sh, it will need changing to have your go path in. Run that and it will leave you with the rssnest executable. Then run

./rssnest -conf example_conf.json

This will no doubt download a copy of linux voice podcast into directory . and create some json, then crash as it cannot ftp the data onto the webserver. To get it working as intended:

• The example_conf.json will need replacing with real values,
• As will the casts json referenced in the conf.json

JS

I guess this is not so much a quick start as you'll need to set all the web stuff up as well

• sudo npm install jspm -g
• cd ./web
• jspm install
• cd public

UPDATE: you just need the material design stuff, jspm has been ditched as pure js works now....

And ftp these files on to the webserver keeping the directory structure:

• ./jspm_packages/github/google/material-design-lite@1.0.4/material.min.css
• ./js/main.js
• go.html

That should do it, add it to a cronjob and go and consume the content.

Stop the growth

There two problems with file growth on this:

• rssnest.log - This will just keep growing
• alreadyHave.json - Also this will keep growing and is a quick and dirty way to persist some data, without setting up a database etc.

TODO

• Stop the growth
• Refactor
• Write some more tests
• Write a quick go program to help ftp the assets to webserver?