X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7abcfe429a0fcf7edc486f4b1806b606e2af949a..8d9ec24232ede981face0c3eafbce71b74c4725a:/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 031eb03f4..574c8b125 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=aggregate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] [[tag type/useful]] -This plugin allows content from other blogs to be aggregated into the wiki. -Aggregate a blog as follows: +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"]] -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 @@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ crontab entry: */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` @@ -35,7 +43,7 @@ directive: * `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. @@ -43,15 +51,16 @@ directive: 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. (Not yet - implemented.) -* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this blog if there are more 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 feed if there are more than the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default - 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 + is to never expire on count. +* `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