rss2rss

Express server which takes existing RSS feeds, applies transformations then re-hosts them.

How to use

node app.js

Configuration

inside conf/ rename default.example.js to default.js

key	description
port	port to run the server on. defaults to 80
base	route to host feeds on. defaults to root /
feeds	array of hosted feeds

Feed:

key	description
url	url to host the feed on
source	source of the rss feed to transform
filters	array of filters

Filter:

key	description
key	key on the rss feed items to apply the regex to
regex	regex to run on the specified key
unescape	set to true if the regex matches need to be unescaped before applying transformations
multi	can there be multiple regex matches per feed item
replace	transformation functions to be called on each matched item. should return the new value. can be applied to link or value Function has two parameters: match - regex match, item - corresponding item from rss feed

TODO

• command line arguments (log level, port, etc...)
• ability to require module and transform rss feeds programmatically
• unit tests
• extra item key transformations
• ability to combine multiple feeds
• better logging