rss2jabber is an application that gathers articles from RDF/RSS/Atom feeds and sends them to an IM client.

The applicaction is console based and uses the jabber network for messaging.

Every user can subscribe to several newsfeeds, select the update frequency and the maximum number of articles to be sent at every update. The unsent and older articles can be retrieved on request.

To try rss2jabber you need a jabber account and with your favorite jabber client, add this JID: rss2jabber@jabber.fr to your contacts and send it the command:

help

for example, the command:

sub http://slashdot.org/index.rss 3:30 4

will subscribe you to the slashdot RSS feed. It'll be polled every 3:30hs. and on every update it'll send up to 4 new articles.

(rss2jabber@jabber.at is no longer available since jabber.at is offline)

rss2jabber is written in PHP, with help from MagpieRSS and the PHP Class Jabber and uses MYSQL to store the subscriptions.

MagpieRSS runs with gzip, cache enabled and HTTP Conditional GETs to avoid RSS hammering.

Some applications to generate useful feeds:

• changelog2rss (cvs2cl --xml)
• cvs2rss
• email2rss: email notification. freepops
• rssquotes
• google2rss
• gnews2rss
• script4rss: code your own.
• ebay2rss
• rssauction
• ical2rss
• rsscalendar.com
• imap2rss
• MailToRss
• log2rss the feed for SysAdmins.

To Do

• Sanitize input.
• Format messages according to jep-0071
• Periodic cleanup of the database (inactive subscriptions, inactive RSS, etc.)
• Detect server disconnection.

Download: rss2jabber Project Info

fernando aversa
2005 Jun 15 19:20