rawdog: RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur
Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
-rawdog is a feed aggregator. It supports most common feed formats,
-including all versions of RSS and Atom using feedparser. It runs from
-cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static
-HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports
-per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, gzip
+rawdog is a feed aggregator, capable of producing a personal "river of
+news" or a public "planet" page. It supports all common feed formats,
+including all versions of RSS and Atom. By default, it is run from cron,
+collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML
+page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed
+customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, gzip
compression, and RFC3229+feed to minimize network bandwidth usage. Its
behaviour is highly customisable using plugins written in Python.