-[[template id=plugin name=aggregate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[tag type/useful]]
+[[!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 a feed as follows:
- \[[aggregate name="example blog"
+ \[[!aggregate name="example blog" dir="example"
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. For example:
+
+ \[[!inline pages="internal(example/*)"]]
## 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
+New users of aggregate should enable the `aggregateinternal => 1` option in the
+.setup file. If you don't do so, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin
+as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML.
+
+The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The
[[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html
problems, some of which tidy can fix.
*/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, turn 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`
* `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 aggregated 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.
+
+## internal pages and `aggregateinternal`
+
+This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item.
+
+If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is
+recommended), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a
+"._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and
+do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a
+blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]],
+like `internal(blog/*)`.
+
+For backward compatibility, the default is that these pages have the
+".html" extension, and are first-class wiki pages -- each one generates
+a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited.
+
+That turns out to not be ideal for aggregated content, because publishing
+files for each of those pages is a waste of disk space and CPU, and you
+probably don't want to allow them to be edited. So, there is an alternative
+method that can be used (and is recommended), turned on by the
+`aggregateinternal` option in the setup file.
+
+If you are already using aggregate and want to enable `aggregateinternal`,
+you should follow this process:
+
+1. Update all [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] that refer to the aggregated
+ pages -- such as those in inlines. Put "internal()" around globs
+ in those PageSpecs. For example, if the PageSpec was `foo/*`, it should
+ be changed to `internal(foo/*)`. This has to be done because internal
+ pages are not matched by regular globs.
+2. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file.
+3. Use [[ikiwiki-transition]] to rename all existing aggregated `.html`
+ files in the srcdir. The command to run is
+ `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $setupfile`,
+4. Refresh the wiki. (`ikiwiki -setup your.setup -refresh`)