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RSS-Watcher is Tinu Library/Executable for RSS/Atom Feed Reader
##install
####NPM INSTALL:
npm install rss-watcher
####package.json:
{
"dependencies":{
"rss-watcher": "*"
}
}
Watcher = require 'rss-watcher'
feed = 'http://github.com/nikezono.atom'
watcher = new Watcher(feed)
watcher.on 'new article',(article)->
console.log article
watcher.run (err,articles)->
console.error err if err
console.log articles # current articles
watcher = new Watcher(feed)
watcher.set
feed:feed # feed url
interval: 60 # request per interval seconds. default:average update frequency
watcher.on "error",(error)->
console.error error
watcher.on "new article",(article)->
console.log article # article object
watcher.on "stop", ->
console.log 'stop'
watcher.stop()
> rss-watcher -f 'http://github.com/nikezono.atom' -i 20000 # 20000s interval
Spec Report:
npm -i -g grunt grunt-cli
grunt test
Coverage dump:
grunt coverage
open coverage.html
FAQs
RSS reader/watcher
The npm package rss-watcher receives a total of 19 weekly downloads. As such, rss-watcher popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that rss-watcher demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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