example

Examples

Send items as email

The following simple example shows how you can send feed items as an email.

Configure mail script

Configure and save the following content as send.sh

Check out the cURL docs

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -o pipefail

# SMTP config
URL=smtps://mail.example.com

## For production use .netrc (https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/netrc)
USER=username@example.com
PASSWORD=password

FROM=$USER
TO=receiver@example.com

while read -r LINE; do
   SUBJECT=$(echo ${LINE} | jq '.title')
   LINK=$(echo ${LINE} | jq '.link')
   BODY=$(echo ${LINE} | jq 'if .content != null then .content else .description end')
   echo "Subject: $SUBJECT\n\n$BODY\n\n$LINK" | curl --ssl-reqd \
    --silent \
    --url $URL \
    --user "$USER:$PASSWORD" \
    --mail-from $FROM \
    --mail-rcpt $TO \
    -T -
done

exit 0

Add the script to your sink

[feeds.FEED_NAME.sink]
type = "custom"
command = "bash"
arguments = ["-C", "./send.sh"]

Set up an systemd service

Install binary

export VERSION=<VERSION>
export TARGET=<TARGET>

curl -O https://github.com/morphy2k/rss-forwarder/releases/download/v${VERSION}/${TARGET}.tar.gz
tar -xzf ${TARGET}.tar.gz
cd ${TARGET}
sha256sum -c rss-forwarder.sha256
sudo chmod +x rss-forwarder
sudo mv rss-forwarder /usr/local/bin/rss-forwarder

Replace <VERSION> and <TARGET> with the version and target of your choice.

Add service user

sudo useradd -r rss-forwarder-user -s /sbin/nologin

Add config

sudo mkdir /etc/rss-forwarder && sudo chown rss-forwarder-user:rss-forwarder-user /etc/rss-forwarder
sudo touch /etc/default/rss-forwarder

Save your config as /etc/rss-forwarder/config.toml

Install service

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morphy2k/rss-forwarder/master/example/rss-forwarder.service && sudo mv rss-forwarder.service /etc/systemd/system

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable rss-forwarder
sudo systemctl start rss-forwarder