Feedability is a proxy server for atom and rss feeds that tries to make them more usable by including the full content of each article. It uses arc90labs original readability, a client bookmarklet written in javascript, for main content extraction/information extraction. Feedability is using the networking framework node.js, it furthermore depends on the readability node.js library by arrix, node bindings for the fast xml parser expat by Astro, node bindings for the charset recoding library iconv by bnoordhuis, jQuery developed by The jQuery Project Team and node-sqlite by grumdrig and orlandov.
I will try to create a first release candidate soon, until now you need to use the master branch. Make sure you’ve installed a recent version of node (wiki) and npm (README). Tested with node 0.6.4 and npm 1.1.0.
- Clone the repository:
git clone git://github.com/4poc/feedability.git cd feedability/
- Install the required libraries: (node-sqlite is optional, only necessary if you want to import firefox cookies)
npm install readability jsdom node-expat iconv sqlite # OR globally: sudo npm install -g readability jsdom node-expat iconv sqlite
- To start the server:
node feedability.js… - but I recommend to demonize it, using forever (
sudo npm install -g forever) or similar:forever start -l forever.log -o forever_stdout.log -e forever_stderr.log feedability.js - For more documentation visit the wiki
- Please report bugs!
- Please report any issue or feature request by creating a new issue in this git repository.
- Write me an mail: apoc =at= sixserv dot org (GPG: 0xA155B8CB) (Jabber: apoc@swissjabber.ch)
- You can find me at Freenode or Teranetworks / webchat (nickname: apoc)
- node.js (Copyright © 2009, 2010 Ryan Lienhart Dahl. All rights reserved.): released under the MIT license.
- arc90labs-readability (original written by the arc90 team): released under the Apache License 2.0.
- node-readability (Copyright © 2010 Arrix Zhou): released under the MIT license.
- node-expat (Copyright © 2010 Stephan Maka): released under the MIT license.
- node-iconv (Copyright © 2010 Ben Noordhuis): released under the MIT license.
- jquery (Copyright © 2010 The jQuery Project): released under the terms of either the MIT License or the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2.
Feedability: NodeJS Feed Proxy With Readability
Copyright © 2011, Matthias – apoc – Hecker <http://apoc.cc/>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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