From: Adam Sampson Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:15:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Change the description of the parser we use, and remove most of the specific X-Git-Tag: v1.1~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ozo.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb46fcf5850713d07473e18c8bb18c24a8b9eff6;p=rawdog%2F.git Change the description of the parser we use, and remove most of the specific references to RSS. --- diff --git a/README b/README index a73611e..eafb966 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ rawdog: RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur Adam Sampson -rawdog is an RSS aggregator, based on Mark Pilgrim's flexible RSS parser. It's -just an RSS aggregator; it's not a weblog authoring tool, nor is it an NNTP -gateway, outliner, mailserver or anything else. rawdog probably only runs on -Unix-like systems. - -rawdog reads articles from a number of RSS feeds and writes out a single HTML -file containing the latest articles it's seen. It uses the ETags and -Last-Modified headers to avoid fetching a file that hasn't changed, and -supports gzip compression to reduce bandwidth when it has. It is configured -from a simple text file; the only state kept between invocations that can't be -reconstructed from the RSS feeds is the ordering of articles. +rawdog is an RSS (and other) feed aggregator, based on Mark Pilgrim's flexible +feed parser. It's just an aggregator; it's not a weblog authoring tool, nor is +it an NNTP gateway, outliner, mailserver or anything else. rawdog probably +only runs on Unix-like systems. + +rawdog reads articles from a number of feeds and writes out a single HTML file +containing the latest articles it's seen. It uses the ETags and Last-Modified +headers to avoid fetching a file that hasn't changed, and supports gzip +compression to reduce bandwidth when it has. It is configured from a simple +text file; the only state kept between invocations that can't be reconstructed +from the feeds is the ordering of articles. To install rawdog on your system, use distutils -- "python setup.py install". This will install the library modules that rawdog needs, and will install the @@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ When you invoke rawdog from the command line, you give it a series of actions to perform -- for instance, "rawdog update write" tells it to do the "update" action, then the "write" action. The actions supported are as follows: -"update": Fetch data from the RSS feeds and store it. This could take some time +"update": Fetch data from the feeds and store it. This could take some time if you've got lots of feeds. "write": Write out the HTML output file. -"list": List brief information about each of the RSS feeds that was known about +"list": List brief information about each of the feeds that was known about when "update" was last done. Any other action will be assumed to be the URL of a known feed; that feed will