ninjayoto / kicktracker

A set of RSS feeds for recent projects on kickstarter

kicktracker

I'm sick of missing interesting game projects on Kickstarter.

So I made this.

It's currently deployed and running at kicktracker.inaimathi.ca.

Usage

Client

It's an RSS feed server, so just go to it and pick a feed. It's currently running at kicktracker.inaimathi.ca. Among the feeds you can subscribe to are:

• /recently-launched
• /staff-picks
• /board-games
• /by-category/id/<category-id>
  • For example:
  • /by-category/id/15 (the feed for Photography)
  • /by-category/id/3 (the feed for Comics)
• /custom/<search-term>
  • For example:
  • [/custom/ryan laukat](http://kicktracker.inaimathi.ca/custom/ryan laukat) (the feed for Red Raven games)
  • /custom/robot (the feed for robots and robot-related stuff)

All feeds are sorted in descending order of launch-date. Only live projects are shown.

Server

• Clone this repo and cd into it
• Either
  • Run lein uberjar, then java -jar target/kicktracker*standalone.jar
  • Run lein run

You can specify the listening port in that last step by passing it as an argument. For instance, java -jar target/kicktracker*standalone.jar 8484 and lein run 8484 both listen on port 8484 instead of the default. The default port is 8000.

TODO

• Right now, every request for a feed hits kickstarter. Two problems:
  • one, we generate more traffic than we ought to
  • two, we may miss projects depending on how requests are timed. Some kind of caching mechanism solves the first one. Not sure how to solve the second outside of heartbeat requests.

License & Thanks

Copyright © 2015 inaimathi

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

• Thanks to the kickscraper project, which includes this mildly outdated, but still very helpful starting point on interacting with the KS API.