Script to convert OPML file to GNU recutils database
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 Last edited: $Date: 2020/12/31 16:17:44 $

                       Newsboat
                       --------

 The  Newsboat RSS reader  (https://newsboat.org/) is
 an awesome RSS reader.

 It runs in your terminal, so can be  used  inside  a
 Tmux session.

 Newsboat  uses  a  plain  text  file for the user to
 configure his or her list with RSS feeds.

                     GNU Recutils
                     ------------

 The GNU Recutils is a set  of  tools  and  libraries
 to access human-editable, plain text databases called
 recfiles.

 These  recfiles  can be generated by scripts and are
 not only human-editable but also machine-readable.

                         OPML
                         ----

 OPML ( Outline Processor Markup Language)
 is an XML format for outlines which is used to import
 and export RSS feed lists between different RSS
 readers.

 Newsboat  can  export  its list of feeds in the OPML
 format, with ``newsboat -e``.

     Simple script to create GNU recutils recfile
     --------------------------------------------

   #!/bin/sh

   echo "%rec: newsfeeds" > feeds.rec
   echo "%mandatory: feed url title" >> feeds.rec
   echo "%sort: title" >> feeds.rec
   echo "%unique: url" >> feeds.rec

   newsboat -e | grep  outline  | sed 's/    <outline type="rss" /\
   /' |  sed "s/xmlUrl=/feed: /" | sed 's/htmlUrl=/\
   url: /' | sed 's/title=/\
   title: /' | sed 's/\/>//' | sed 's/\"//g' >> feeds.rec

   echo "Feeds written to feeds.rec"

 This script reads the output  from  ``newsboat  -e``
 and parses that with sed to create the recfile.

 Here is an example of the output:

   %rec: newsfeeds
   %mandatory: feed url title
   %sort: title
   %unique: url

   feed: https://susam.in/blog/rss.xml
   url: https://susam.in/blog/
   title: Susam's Blog

   feed: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/index.xml
   url: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/index.xml
   title: notes

   feed: https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main
   url: https://daringfireball.net/
   title: Daring Fireball

   ....

                      Next steps
                      ----------

 For  me  this  was  a  first  step.  I  can  now add
 categories to the records.

 This way I can manage my feeds better,  and  have  a
 sound set of categories :)

                        Kudos
                        -----

 Kudos to Sergey Matveev for publishing his feeds and
 links    as    a    recfile.    See     his    links
 page: http://www.stargrave.org/Links.html

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