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