rss2rss

Express server which takes existing RSS feeds, applies transformations then re-hosts them.

How to use

node app.js

Configuration

inside conf/ rename default.example.js to default.js

| key | description | |------- |-------------------------------------------- | | port | port to run the server on. defaults to 80 | | base | route to host feeds on. defaults to root / | | feeds | array of hosted feeds |

Feed:

| key | description | |--------- |------------------------------------- | | url | url to host the feed on | | source | source of the rss feed to transform | | filters | array of filters |

Filter:

| key | description | |---------- |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | key | key on the rss feed items to apply the regex to | | regex | regex to run on the specified key | | unescape | set to true if the regex matches need to be unescaped before applying transformations | | multi | can there be multiple regex matches per feed item | | replace | transformation functions to be called on each matched item. should return the new value. can be applied to link or value Function has two parameters: match - regex match, item - corresponding item from rss feed |

TODO

• command line arguments (log level, port, etc...)
• ability to require module and transform rss feeds programmatically
• unit tests
• extra item key transformations
• ability to combine multiple feeds
• better logging