-This plugin allows content from other blogs to be aggregated into the wiki.
-Aggregate a blog as follows:
+[[template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[tag type/useful]]
+
+This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki.
+Aggregate a feed as follows
- \[[aggregate name="example blog" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]
+ \[[aggregate name="example blog"
+ feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss"
+ url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]]
-That example aggregates posts from the expecified RSS feed, updating no
+That example aggregates posts from the specified RSS feed, updating no
more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under
the example/ directory in the wiki.
-You can then use ikiwiki's [[blog]] support to create a blog of one or more
-aggregated feeds.
+You can then use ikiwiki's [[ikiwiki/blog]] support to create a blog of one or
+more aggregated feeds.
## setup
Make sure that you have the [[html]] plugin enabled, as the created pages are
in html format. The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The
-[[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain invalid
-html which tidy can fix.
+[[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html
+problems, some of which tidy can fix.
You will need to run ikiwiki periodically from a cron job, passing it the
--aggregate parameter, to make it check for new posts. Here's an example
*/15 * * * * ikiwiki --setup my.wiki --aggregate --refresh
+Alternatively, you can allow `ikiwiki.cgi` to trigger the aggregation. You
+should only need this if for some reason you cannot use cron, and instead
+want to use a service such as [WebCron](http://webcron.org). To enable
+this, enable on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to
+visit is `http://whatever/ikiwiki.cgi?do=aggregate_webtrigger`. Anyone
+can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check
+each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed.
+
## usage
Here are descriptions of all the supported parameters to the `aggregate`
* `name` - A name for the feed. Each feed must have a unique name.
Required.
-* `url` - The url to the web page for the blog that's being aggregated.
+* `url` - The url to the web page for the feed that's being aggregated.
Required.
* `dir` - The directory in the wiki where pages should be saved. Optional,
if not specified, the directory is based on the name of the feed.
will look for feeds on the `url`. RSS and atom feeds are supported.
* `updateinterval` - How often to check for new posts, in minutes. Default
is 15 minutes.
-* `expireage` - Expire old items from this blog if they are older than
+* `expireage` - Expire old items from this feed if they are older than
a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age.
-* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this blog if there are more than
+* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this feed if there are more than
the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default
is to never expire on count.
-* `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the blog with. A good tag to use is
- the name of the blog. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin
+* `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the feed with. A good tag to use is
+ the name of the feed. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin
must be enabled for this to work.
+* `template` - Template to use for creating the html pages. Defaults to
+ aggregatepost.
Note that even if you are using subversion or another revision control
system, pages created by aggregation will *not* be checked into revision
control.
-
-This plugin is not enabled by default.
-
-[[tag type/useful]]