Refeed is a small webapp for groups to come together and curate a stream of content for others to consume. Re-feed provides a web interface to add links then generates an RSS out of that which can be consumed easily by any RSS reader out there.

Installation

First run onetime.py to create the schema and admin account

Settings.py

Set options for your installation here

• title = The main title for your feed.
• description = The description for your feed.
• main_url = The main URL for your feed
• db_path = The path to store your db file.
• [Optional] slack_token = The Slack generated token which would be used for verification.
• [Optional] slack_user = The user name of the user to be used to store links added via the slash command in slack. You should use an already existing user for this. See Manage.py for adding users

Manage.py

manage.py is for managing the current installation. commands -

• add-user: Add a new user who can add links.

  Usage - python manage.py add-user username password

Refeed-Slack Command

Refeed now supports Slash Commands in Slack. To configure slack and refeed follow these steps -

• Add slack_user in settings.py
• With the help of this link, get to the configuration page of the slack command. You can name the command as per your wish
• In the URL section, add /slack to the end of the url of your refeed installation. Eg. If the installation is @ www.myrefeed.com, the url would be www.myrefeed.com/slack.
• In the method section, select POST
• Copy the token and set it to slack_token of settings.py

The Slash command supports 2 actions -

• add: Add a new article. Syntax /mycommand add www.mylink.com where mycommand is the name you set in step 2 above.

  

• random : Get a random article to read Syntax /mycommand random where mycommand is the name you set in step 2 above.

Run

python main.py localhost:5000