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.Dd July 6, 2021
.Dd July 29, 2021
.Dt SFEED 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Nm
reads RSS or Atom feed data (XML) from stdin.
It writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.
A
.Ar baseurl
can be specified if the links or enclosures in the feed are relative URLs.
If the
.Ar baseurl
is a valid absolute URL then the relative links or enclosures will be
made absolute.
argument is a valid absolute URL then the relative links or enclosures will be
made an absolute URL.
.Sh TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS
The items are output per line in a TSV-like format.
The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format.
.Pp
The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs, all
whitespace characters are replaced by a single space character.
For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a
SPACE character.
Control characters are removed.
.Pp
The content field can contain newlines and is escaped.
The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped.
TABs, newlines and '\\' are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n'
and '\\\\'.
Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed.
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org
.Sh CAVEATS
If a timezone is not in the RFC-822 or RFC-3339 format it is not supported and
the UNIX timestamp is interpreted as UTC+0.
.Pp
HTML in titles is treated as plain-text.
If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC822 or RFC3339 format it
is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.

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.Dt SFEED 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Xr sfeed 1
writes the feed data in a TAB-separated format to stdout.
.Sh TAB-SEPARATED FORMAT FIELDS
The items are output per line in a TSV-like format.
The items are output per line in a TAB-separated format.
.Pp
The fields: title, id, author are not allowed to have newlines and TABs, all
whitespace characters are replaced by a single space character.
For the fields title, id and author each whitespace character is replaced by a
SPACE character.
Control characters are removed.
.Pp
The content field can contain newlines and is escaped.
The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped.
TABs, newlines and '\\' are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n'
and '\\\\'.
Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed.
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org
.Sh CAVEATS
If a timezone is not in the RFC-822 or RFC-3339 format it is not supported and
the UNIX timestamp is interpreted as UTC+0.
.Pp
HTML in titles is treated as plain-text.
If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC822 or RFC3339 format it
is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.

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.Dt SFEED_ATOM 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Nm
is reading from one or more
.Ar file
it will prefix the entry title with the feed name which is the basename of the
input file.
arguments it will prefix the entry title with "[feed name] ".
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
sfeed_atom ~/.sfeed/feeds/*
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sfeed 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_plain 1 ,

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.Dt SFEED_FRAMES 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Pp
Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the
time of formatting are counted and marked as new.
Items are marked as new using a bold markup.
.Pp
There is an example style.css stylesheet file included in the distribution.
.Sh FILES WRITTEN
.Bl -tag -width 13n
.It index.html
The main HTML file referencing to the frames items.html and menu.html.
The main HTML file referencing the files for the frames: items.html and
menu.html.
.It items.html
The items frame contains all the item HTML links to the remote content.
The HTML file of the items frame which contains all the item links to the
feeds.
.It menu.html
The menu frame which contains navigation "anchor" links to the feed names in
items.html.
The HTML file of the menu frame which contains navigation "anchor" links (like
"#feedname") to the feed names in items.html.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
sfeed_frames ~/.sfeed/feeds/*
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sfeed 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_html 1 ,

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.Dt SFEED_GOPHER 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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is used as the feed name in the output.
.Nm
creates an index file named "index" and for each feed it creates a file with
the same name as the feedname.
the same name as the basename of the feed
.Ar file .
.Pp
If no
.Ar file
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.Pp
Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the
time of formatting are counted and marked as new.
Items are marked as new with the prefix "N".
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ev SFEED_GOPHER_PATH

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.Dt SFEED_HTML 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Pp
Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the
time of formatting are counted and marked as new.
Items are marked as new using a bold markup.
.Pp
There is an example style.css stylesheet file included in the distribution.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
sfeed_html ~/.sfeed/feeds/*
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sfeed 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_frames 1 ,

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.Dt SFEED_MBOX 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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To make further filtering simpler some custom headers are set:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It X-Feedname
The feedname, this is the basename of the
The feed name, this is the basename of the feed
.Ar file .
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

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.Pp
Items with a timestamp from the last day compared to the system time at the
time of formatting are marked as new.
Items are marked as new with the prefix "N".
.Pp
.Nm
aligns the output.

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.Dt SFEED_TWTXT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Ar file
arguments are specified and so the data is read from stdin then the feed name
is empty.
.Pp
If
.Nm
is reading from one or more
.Ar file
arguments it will prefix the entry title with "[feed name] ".
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom.xml' | sfeed | sfeed_twtxt
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sfeed 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_plain 1 ,

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.Dt SFEED_UPDATE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Nm
writes TAB-separated feed files and merges new items with the items in any
existing files.
The items are stored in one file per feed in the directory
The items are stored as one file per feed in the directory
.Pa $HOME/.sfeed/feeds
by default.
The directory can be changed in the
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The
.Nm
script merges new items with this file.
The feedname cannot contain '/' characters, they will be replaced with '_'.
The feed name cannot contain the '/' character because it is a path separator,
they will be replaced with '_'.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
.Bl -tag -width Ds

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.Dt SFEED_WEB 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Op Ar baseurl
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
reads the HTML website as XML or HTML data from stdin and writes the found
URLs to stdout.
reads the HTML data of the webpage from stdin and writes the found URLs to
stdout.
.Pp
Such a link reference in HTML code looks like:
.Bd -literal
<link rel="alternate" href="atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" />
.Ed
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width 8n

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.Dt SFEEDRC 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.It Fa name
Name of the feed, this is also used as the filename for the TAB-separated
feed file.
The feedname cannot contain '/' characters, they will be replaced with '_'.
The feed name cannot contain the '/' character because it is a path separator,
they will be replaced with '_'.
.It Fa feedurl
URL to fetch the RSS/Atom data from, usually a HTTP or HTTPS URL.
.It Op Fa basesiteurl