* RSS in Gnus - elfeed backend?
@ 2021-04-01 11:47 Garjola Dindi
2021-04-08 22:32 ` dick.r.chiang
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From: Garjola Dindi @ 2021-04-01 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Hi,
I read RSS/Atom feeds in Gnus everyday using a couple of ways.
The first one, is the standard nnrss backend with the following trick I
found somewhere to convert Atom to RSS:
,----
| (require 'mm-url)
| (defadvice mm-url-insert (after DE-convert-atom-to-rss () )
| "Converts atom to RSS by calling xsltproc."
| (when (re-search-forward "xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/.*/Atom\""
| nil t)
| (goto-char (point-min))
| (message "Converting Atom to RSS... ")
| (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
| "xsltproc"
| t t nil
| (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/atom2rss.xsl") "-")
| (goto-char (point-min))
| (message "Converting Atom to RSS... done")))
`----
Since the nnrss fetching blocks Emacs, this is not useable for a large
number of feeds. So I reserve this approach to a few feeds which are
responsive and that I don't need to check while offline.
For most of my feeds, I use feed2imap
https://github.com/feed2imap/feed2imap which allows me to download to
disk and view offline using an e-mail backend (I use nnmaildir).
Feed2imap seems to be unmaintained and is not very robust wrt updated
items on the feeds.
Looking for alternatives I found this:
https://protesilaos.com/dotemacs/#h:7e4448ec-3878-4ea2-9cd6-75e9faaac373
which actually describes rather well my issues. I think I am more of a
Gnus fan person than Protesilaos, and I resist to split my inboxes
between Elfeed (https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed) for feeds and Gnus for
everything else.
What I was wondering (but it may be completely dumb) is that if elfeed
itself (which is written in Elisp) could be used as a backend for Gnus.
Since there seem to be Gnus backends for nearly everything, maybe that
interfacing with Elfeed is possible.
What do you think?
I am not an elisp programmer, but I may try to have a look at it if it
doesn't seem a bad idea to people having written backends for Gnus.
Thanks for your feedback.
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