jadedctrl / pogger

RSS/Atom feed aggregator for Haiku. (Mirror 🪞)

Pogger

A simple RSS/Atom feed aggregator for Haiku.

Pogger works vaguely similarly to the mail service― you configure it, add your subscriptions, and forget about it. New entries for your feeds will be dumped into your feeds folder.

It works best for news or blog feeds, podcasts and the sort work better on BePodder.

Usage

Whenever a subscribed feed is updated, "feed entry" files are dumped into your feeds folder, /boot/home/feeds/ by default. They have the attributes you might expect― URL of the entry, the title, source, time posted, etc. The file contains the contents of that entry, if any were provided.

It's recommended to use Pogger to open these files, instead of directly using a web-browser. This'll smooth out any incompatibilities and make sure entries are opened just how you like them― as the downloaded HTML, or as a URL.

By default, it will open entries as URLs with WebPositive.

Feeds

In the "Feeds" tab you can manage your subscribed feeds, and see the progress of the current update. Feeds that failed to update are marked with an "X" in their row.

Entries

In "Entries" you can change your feed folder and how Pogger will handle the opening of feed entries.

Updates

In "Updates" you can toggle notifications and set the frequency of updates.

Building

$ make; make -f Makefile-Daemon

$ make bindcatalogs; make -f Makefile-Daemon bindcatalogs

Uses netservices, and has TinyXML2 as a dependency.

License

This project is under the MIT license.

pogger's Issues

Move "Feed entry" file type to "application"

I'm not 100% sure on that one, but since the "Feed entry" files are just empty files with all data in their attributes, I think text/x-feed-entry should actually be application/x-feed-entry.

Also, sentence cased, the type name would be "Feed entry", the description "Atom/RSS feed entry".

feeds folder not created / empty

I tried downloading and compiling your source (today, march 23). The compilation went without issues (in Haiku 32 bit, but using the secondary architecture). However, I found this problem:

• The application don't create the /boot/home/feeds folder. I understand that there is a recent commit that fixed this problem, but for some reason, apparently don't work.

• I also tried creating the folder manually, but after that, still don't see any new feed downloaded.

I opened the Subscriptions configuration folder (/boot/home/config/settings/Pogger/Subscriptions), and opened the files using DiskProbe, and I see information about recent updates for the feed. But for some reason, the file in the home/feeds folder is not created.

"Edit feed" window: Remove "Delete" button

It's enough to be able to remove a feed from the main window with the "-" button.
Instead "Delete" and "Save", have a "Cancel" and "OK" button (defaulting to "OK").

Add confirmation alert when deleting a feed

Since deleting a feed is normally done not very often, a confirmation alert wouldn't be to much of a bother and gives some savety against accidental removal.

Do you really want to remove the feed 'Feedname'?
                     [Remove]         [Cancel]

Add tooltips to +/- buttons

Since their label doesn't state their actions explicitely.

Feeds tab: "Edit..." button doesn't work

Double-clicking an item under "Feeds" does open the "Edit feed" window alright.

Use a proper daemon

Pogger should follow the daemon/deskbar replicant/settings model, instead of having the MainWindow be open all the time. A few changes'll have to be made.

• Window
  When settings are changed, a message will have to be sent to the daemon saying as much.
  A "Run Pogger on system startup" option should be added.

• Deskbar Replicant
  The mail service has its deskbar replicant manage notifications etc (it consistently runs a query for new mail), and Pogger's deskbar replicant should follow suit. Right now Notifier requires messages from the update loop to send notifications― so if Notifier becomes a child of the DeskbarView, then it'll have to move to using queries, like mail's.

• Daemon
  Basically just has a FeedController do all the work.

Support TinyTinyRSS/OldReader-like services

Doesn't seem like this'll require too much restructuring― the FeedsList should become a BOutlineListView (which has, e.g., "TinyTinyRSS" and "Local" as the top of the hierarchy, with their feeds under them), and new Feed classes should be made. Other than that, a class above Feeds ("MetaFeed", "SuperFeed"? Haha) could be used to fetch subscribed feeds. It might represent the service/way feeds are aqquired (i.e., LocalMetaFeed, TTRMetaFeed, etc).

Right now, subscribed feeds are just fetched from the FeedController― so instead of using FeedController::SubscribedFeeds, you'd use MetaFeed::SubscribedFeeds, and FeedController might have to manage multiple MetaFeeds.

Using the addon system for MetaFeeds and Feeds might be a good idea, to help generalize.

Sentence casing

To fit 100% into the Haiku environment, all strings should be sentence case., i.e. "Update now", "Edit feed", "New feed".

Entries tab: use app names for "Open with" pop up items

...instead of their nerdy signatures. :)

Crashes on 32bit

After the latest comments at haikuports moving issues over here :)

With the latest commit I'm getting a crash on (first) startup again and adding a new feed still crashes

Feeds tab: add "New entries" button for a query

The "Edit..." button could move to the left to the +/- buttons and space for a "New entries" button that opens a Tracker query for the currently selected feed's unread entries.
Since that may be used more often that "Edit", that may as well be the double-click action on a feed.

[Suggestion] Download Queue System

Hello! This is less of an issue and more a suggestion for a queue system that you mentioned in your TODO file to simplify download handling. For a simple queue implementation, I would take a peak at Haiku's BJob class found in the Support Kit. For convenience, here's a link to the header: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/headers/os/support/Job.h

There's also a private JobQueue class, but I'd copy its implementation into your own files as it's still a private class that originated from Haiku's Package Kit: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/src/kits/support/JobQueue.cpp

Hope this helps you get started!