fomoapp

Got FOMO? read the latest Tech news right from your Terminal

Install

npm install -g fomoapp

Usage

$ fomo

Select a specific source using the -s flag:

$ fomo -s hn # Hacker News

You can also select a specific ordering/sub-group using the -t flag:

$ fomo -s hn -t ask # ask HN

Limit the number of responses (for each source) using the -l flag:

$ fomo -l 3 # showes 3 entries for each source

Configure fomo using the -c flag:

$ fomo -c # openes the configuration menu

List all available sources (and their types) using the -p flag:

$ fomo -p # prints all available sources

Get help using the -h flag:

$ fomo -h

Sources

Source	Source ID	Available types
Hacker News	hn	ask (Ask HN) best jobs new show (Show HN) top
Product Hunt	ph	featured new top_ranking top_votes
TechCrunch	tc	euro funding gear mobile social startups top
The Verge	verge	breaking culture full mobile sw (Software and Apps) web
Reddit	reddit	fed (r/Frontend) js (r/javascript) prog (r/programming) tech (r/technology) webdev (r/webdev)
Wired	wired	business gear science top

User-defined RSS sources (New!)

You can define your own RSS sources using simple configuration files.

In order to configure a new RSS source you'll need:

1. Create a new folder to hold your source configuration files.
2. Create a configuration file for your desired source.
3. Tell fomo where to find your config files:

• Open fomo's config menu (run fomo -c)
• Choose "Configure external rss feeds directory"
• Enter the path to the folder you created. Make sure to use an absolute path

Source configuration file

Source configuration file should be a valid JSON file with the following structure:

{
  "details": {
    "name": "The source name",
    "id": "The source ID"
  },
  "baseUrl": "base URL of the RSS feeds",
  "fetchTypes": {
    "key1": "First RSS feed name",
    "key2": "Second RSS feed name",
    "keyN": "Nth RSS feed name"
  },
  "defaultFetchType": "Key name of the default RSS feed (should be one the keys defined above)",
  "fieldsMapping": {
    "title": "title field name",
    "link": "link field name",
    "summary": "summary field name (optional)",
    "date": "date field name (optional)",
    "author": "author field name (optional)"
  },
  "defaultCacheTTL": "Number of minutes to cache result from this source (optional. default is 10 minutes)"
}

The final RSS feed URL is built in the following way: ${baseUrl}/${selectedFetchTypeValue}, so make sure baseUrl doesn't end with a comma and that non of the fetchTypes keys' values doesn't start with a comma.

For your convenience, here's an example source config file:

{
  "details": {
    "name": "MIT News",
    "id": "mit"
  },
  "baseUrl": "https://news.mit.edu/topic",
  "fetchTypes": {
    "astronauts": "mitastronauts-rss.xml",
    "ai": "mitartificial-intelligence2-rss.xml"
  },
  "defaultFetchType": "ai",
  "fieldsMapping": {
    "title": "title",
    "link": "link",
    "summary": "summary",
    "date": "isoDate",
    "author": "author"
  },
  "defaultCacheTTL": 10
}

License

MIT