xml-feed-generator/README.md

xml-feed-generator

an RSS/atom feed generator for my personal site 🐱

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disclaimer

this script is not meant to be used as is (yet).

expect to do a lot of modification to fit your needs, as this was originally tailored for my site structure and blog markup.

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how it works

1. match files in a specificied directory.
2. load the DOM of each file.
3. parse values retrieved from the following strings/HTML elements (prioritizing h-entry markup), as children of a feed <entry>:
   • <element class=p-name> (or <h2>) as <title>
   • the datetime attribute of <time> (or the file creation date) as <updated>
   • <element class="p-summary"> as <summary>
   • <element class="e-content"> (or <article>) as <content>
   • /path/to/blog/entry as <id> and <link>
4. output all of the above into a new file named articles.xml.

ways to use

• configure a cron job on your web server to run automatically every now and then.
  • if you manage your site with cPanel, here's how to do that.

or

• run the script locally on your machine.
  • you can open the file on a local server like five server for vscode or XAMPP.

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example output

feel free to check out the resulting file that i've generated.

alternatives

• cjwainwright/FeedGenerator