NAME
SoggyOnion - RSS and other arbitrary content aggregatron
SYNOPSIS
$ soggyonion-install
$ vim/emacs config.yaml
$ soggyonion config.yaml
$ crontab -e
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This is a pre-release. I need to add tests, among other things.
Functionality is here, though.
SoggyOnion is an RSS and arbitrary content aggregator that produces
static pages. It was written to be easily installable and configurable
as well as trivial to extend. It is meant for people that want to
collect RSS feeds and other scraped content and view the result via a
web browser but want minimal setup and configuration.
See the defaults in action at:
Installation
The module creates two executables, soggyonion and soggyonion-install.
Once the SoggyOnion module is installed, do the following:
1. Change to a directory where you'd like to keep the configuration file
and defaults, then run the soggyonion-install command. This will extract
a handful of files to the current directory.
2. Edit the config.yaml configuration file. To get started quickly, just
make sure the four options in the first section are correct.
3. Run the soggyonion command with th
Customizing the Output
All sources of content are found in the config.yaml file. The main
template, templates/main.tt2, contains all the CSS.
Extending
See: SoggyOnion::Plugin
Why is it called "SoggyOnion?"
I purchased the domain "csoggyonion.com" on complete impulse. When I
wrote this I finally made use of that silly domain and I kept the name.
Why don't I use (RSS utility here)?
If you like it better, please do. I welcome all suggestions and
constructive criticism (a.k.a. complaints), so fire away :-)
I wanted a tool where I could specify a few sources of RSS/RDF and have
it produce categorized, static pages for me that could be easily
customized through templates and CSS. I'm also not yet convinced that
everything should be RSS -- SoggyOnion can be used as a front-end for
any scraped content.
SEE ALSO
SoggyOnion::Plugin, XML::RSS, YAML
AUTHOR
Ian Langworth
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2004 by Ian Langworth
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.