Blogator

A multi-player command line tool for aggregating RSS feeds and viewing the posts.

Installation

Make sure you have the latest Go toolchain installed as well as a local Postgres database. You can then install blogator with:

go install github.com/hawkaii/blogator

Config

Create a .gatorconfig.json file in your home directory with the following structure:

{
  "db_url": "postgres://username:@localhost:5432/database?sslmode=disable"
}

Replace the values with your database connection string.

Usage

Create a new user:

blogator register <name>

Add a feed:

blogator addfeed <url>

Start the aggregator:

blogator agg 30s

View the posts:

blogator browse [limit]

There are a few other commands you'll need as well:

• blogator login <name> - Log in as a user that already exists
• blogator users - List all users
• blogator feeds - List all feeds
• blogator follow <url> - Follow a feed that already exists in the database
• blogator unfollow <url> - Unfollow a feed that already exists in the database