SporkFeed CLI

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Reference implementation of a SporkFeed reader application. Track feeds and read articles from the comfort of your console.

See the core implementation at sporkfeed-core.

Installation

``
npm install -g sporkfeed-cli
`

Usage

Interactive mode

Run sporkfeed with no arguments to begin interactive mode. There you can add new feeds and read articles using simple key commands:

`
$ sporkfeed
No feeds added
? Enter a feed or website URL: xkcd.com
? Multiple feeds detected at xkcd.com: (Use arrow keys)
> "Atom 1.0": http://xkcd.com/atom.xml
"RSS 2.0": http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
Quit (none of the above)
✓ Added feed "xkcd.com": http://xkcd.com/atom.xml
Ready to read 4 articles from 1 feed
posted between 10 days ago and 3 days ago
? Command: (Saqh)
Start reading (s, space)
Add a new feed (a)
Quit (q)
Help
...
`

Batch mode

A variety of commands are available with arguments to sporkfeed. Some of these have interactive prompts as well.

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`
$ sporkfeed add spacex.com
? Multiple feeds detected at spacex.com: (Use arrow keys)
> "SpaceX Updates": http://www.spacex.com/news.xml
"SpaceX Press Releases": http://www.spacex.com/press.xml
Quit (none of the above)
The feed at http://www.spacex.com/news.xml does not have a name.
? Choose a name for this feed: SpaceX
✓ Added feed "SpaceX": http://spacex.com/news.xml
`

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`
$ sporkfeed status
2 feeds: Unread Updated Oldest
xkcd.com 4 articles 3 days ago 10 days ago
SpaceX 10 articles 3 days ago 3 months ago
`

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`
$ sporkfeed rename xkcd.com XKCD
✓ Renamed feed xkcd.com to XKCD
`

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`
$ sporkfeed refresh
2 feeds: New Unread Total
XKCD 1 article 5 articles
SpaceX --- 10 articles
`

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This is useful if you want to use sporkfeed from multiple computers, and want the reader state to be shared. You can save the state file in some shared location (e.g. Dropbox):

`
$ sporkfeed statefile D:\Dropbox\sporkfeed-state.json
Moved the reader state to D:\Dropbox\sporkfeed-state.json.
``