+[[template id=plugin name=aggregate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[tag type/useful]]
+
This plugin allows content from other blogs to be aggregated into the wiki.
Aggregate a blog as follows:
- \[[aggregate name="example blog" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15" dir="example"]
+ \[[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
more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under
## setup
Make sure that you have the [[html]] plugin enabled, as the created pages are
-in html format. The [[tag]] plugin is also recommended.
+in html format. 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.
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
Required.
* `url` - The url to the web page for the blog that's being aggregated.
Required.
-* `dir` - The directory in the wiki where pages should be saved. 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.
* `feedurl` - The url to the feed. Optional, if it's not specified ikiwiki
- will look for feeds on the `blogurl`. RSS and atom feeds are supported.
+ 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
- a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age.
+ a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age. (Not yet
+ implemented.)
* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this blog if there are more than
the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default
- is to never expire on count.
+ is to never expire on count. (Not yet implemented.)
* `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
must be enabled for this to work.
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]]