graue / tentrss

[Deprecated] Tent/RSS bridge

TentRSS

Script to show public Tent status posts as an RSS feed.

Based on Flask. See Flask's install instructions to get this running. TentRSS also uses Requests to fetch URLs and BeautifulSoup to parse HTML (for finding HTML <link> tags).

Finally, to run this in production you should install memcached and pylibmc which is used to cache the latest posts for a few minutes. Without pylibmc, Flask's SimpleCache will be used, which is intended only for development.

Follow the author on Tent: https://scott.mn

Example nginx proxy configuration

location /tentrss/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001/;
    proxy_redirect default;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Original-Request-URI $request_uri;
}

The X-Original-Request-URI header allows TentRSS to generate a correct URL to the resulting feed.

tentrss's Issues

Use correct HTTP error code

Currently the HTTP error code returned if anything goes wrong fetching the feed is 404, when it should probably be something else in some cases.

Cache the feed

Generated RSS should be cached for a little while (1-5 minutes) to reduce requests to the Tent server when someone has a popular feed.

Follow link tag in HTML

The <link> tag (as opposed to the HTTP Link: header) is not supported yet as a method of profile discovery, but should be.

Support microblogging namespace

See if it makes sense to support the microblogging namespace and some of the features here, such as "avatar": http://microblog.reallysimple.org/

Redirecting to the RSS feed doesn't work well on Chrome

When Chrome is asked to load an RSS feed it pops up a box telling the user to install an RSS app from the Chrome web store.

Can you instead display a link which the user could either click or cut-and-paste?