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requests to remote web-hooks when new items appear in an RSS feed.
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requests to remote web-hooks when new items appear in an RSS feed.
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## Rational
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## Rational
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I have a couple of webhooks in-place already which will take incoming
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I have a couple of webhooks in-place already which will take incoming
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-HTTP requests and "do stuff" with them, for example:
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+HTTP submissions and "do stuff" with them, for example:
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* Posting to my alerting system.
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* Posting to my alerting system.
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* Which is called [purppura](https://github.com/skx/purppura/) and is pretty neat.
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* Which is called [purppura](https://github.com/skx/purppura/) and is pretty neat.
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@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ github releases of projects. For example my git-host runs [gitbucket](https://g
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* https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases.atom
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* https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases.atom
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## Deployment
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## Deployment
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If you have a working golang setup you should be able to install this
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If you have a working golang setup you should be able to install this
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@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ application via:
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go install github.com/skx/rss2hook
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go install github.com/skx/rss2hook
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## Setup
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## Setup
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There are two parts to the setup:
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There are two parts to the setup:
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$ rss2hook -config ./sample.cfg
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$ rss2hook -config ./sample.cfg
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-### Sample Webhook
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+### Sample Webhook Receiver
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There is a simple webserver located beneath [webhook/](webhook/) which
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There is a simple webserver located beneath [webhook/](webhook/) which
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will listen upon http://localhost:8080, and dump any POST submission to the
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will listen upon http://localhost:8080, and dump any POST submission to the
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$ rss2hook --config=sample.cfg
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$ rss2hook --config=sample.cfg
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+## Implementation Notes
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+* By default the server will poll all configured feeds immediately
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+upon startup.
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+ * It will look for changes every five minutes.
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+* To ensure items are only announced once state is kept on the filesystem.
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+ * Beneath the directory `~/.rss2hook/seen/`.
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+* Feed items are submitted to the webhook as JSON.
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## Feedback?
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## Feedback?
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Turning this into a SaaS project would be interesting. A simple setup
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Turning this into a SaaS project would be interesting. A simple setup
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