Has anyone generated an RSS feed from TiddlyWiki?

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#11

Awesome. I’ll test this on my TW Groceries, too.

I’m currently messing about with filters and documenting my walk through of set up.

e.g. The default filter at $:/config/feeds/filter is basically everything that isn’t a system tiddler:

[!is[system]limit{$:/config/feeds/maxItems}]

For me, this is my filter of non system tiddlers tagged with Notes or Journal in reverse chronological order:

[!is[system] [tag[Notes]] [tag[Journal]] +[limit[25]] +[!sort[created]]

I have this filter pulled out into a tiddler for experimenting, the limit is at $:/config/feeds/maxItems

As always, I’m basically a TW filter noob, so don’t look too closely at my filters :stuck_out_tongue:

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#12

I believe it has been done. I can’t recall the name of the individual who made this but I believe Tobias Beer picked up on it and you can see one use of it in his (incredible) tb5 site - note the RSS symbol next to the wiki subtitle.

Googling “TiddlyWiki RSS” might give a few clues…

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#13

Assume that I searched and found nothing :wink:

Thanks for pointing out the RSS link on Tobias’ site.

Saq’s template above works well, I’m just documenting and implementing it for my use case and will share a walk through once done.

#14

There is also the option to use the commits messages (if applicable) as a RSS feed, now that tiddlywiki allows to wikify the commit.

For github hosted wiki, the feed url looks like this :

https://github.com/Telumire/TiddlyTweaks/commits/main.atom

The downside is that we cant put links or images inside, only plain text (AFAIK) :confused:

#15

Here it is:

https://tiddlywiki.narkive.com/7Imfd94p/tw-tw5-generating-an-atom-feed-for-a-static-site

Atom feed by “dullroar” / Jim Lehmer

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#16

Uploading an RSS feed with the FileUploads plugin involves three steps:

  1. Generating an RSS feed from the template and saving it in a tiddler with an appropriate title: e.g rss.xml
  2. Having the FileUploads filter configured to upload that tiddler.
  3. Having a separate button to generate the RSS feed in step 1, triggering its upload, or a custom save button that saves the wiki and generates the RSS feed.

Now with the latest version of the FileUploads plugin you can avoid customizing the filter in step 2 and just use the same button that generates the RSS feed to also upload it directly using the tm-upload-tiddlers message, example:

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-upload-tiddlers" $param="rss.xml"/>

#17

On the off chance that you haven’t seen this already, there is a ‘howto’ of sorts on techlifeweb dot com (have to do this as I’m only allowed one link in a post, apparently :-)). I’ve written up the way I’ve done it based on the information from there on my site, including the relevant links to the pages on techlifeweb.

https://radar231.com/RSS%2520Feed%2520for%2520Tiddlywiki%2520SSG%2520Website.html

#18

@saqimtiaz This plugin is so great, thank you so much !

@boris I’ve managed to make a RSS feed generator using the file upload plugin thanks to the very useful tips from this thread, here it is :

RSS.tid (4.3 KB)

No commands needed :slight_smile:
Enjoy !

PS : You dont need the base64 plugin from tobibeer with the github uploader, it’s only needed for the PUT uploader (it wouldnt upload text file otherwise).

EDIT: @rmorrow wow this is much cleaner than what I’ve come up with :o

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#19

That is a bug, you shouldn’t need anything extra. I’ll push an update when I get the chance to test properly.

#20

Thank you! The “discoverfeed” is an excellent add on so that various tools can auto find feeds in the header.

#21

A post was merged into an existing topic: File Uploads plugin: updates

#22

I’ve read your article, this was very informative, thanks you !
There is another way to make a feed reachable for feed reader : simply add a tag $:/tags/RawMarkup

With this the content of the tiddler is embeded in the head of the document and become reachable :slight_smile:

Here’s a demo

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#23

@saqimtiaz in a similar application I used the filter that you would use to generate the items for the RSS feed, as the conditions for displaying a button to do the upload (in my case to print a PDF).

However if RSS entries are related to a date, the act of triggering the upload can also record the “last” upload. Subsequently the button can test if fresh content is available for upload. Basically a version of the “dirty” indicator.

Alternatively clicking save button on a “post” could trigger an action to test if an RSS file upload is required.

I hope someone can publish a “Finished” solution addressing this thread;

Generate an RSS feed from TiddlyWiki?

Great example of collaboration in this thread.

#24

This bug has now been fixed and an update for the FileUploads plugin (and the PUT uploader) is available.

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#25

Awesome, thanks ! :smiley:

#26

I’ve found another plugin to generate RSS feeds :
https://sycom.gitlab.io/TiddlyWiki-Plugins/#Atom%20feed%20plugin

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#27

Linked from that is GitHub - dullroar/TW5-atomfeed: TiddlyWiki5 plugin to generate ATOM feed.

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#28

I can export my last 30 tiddlers from TW into json that way

# CREATING 30 DAYS JSON RSS STREAM
tiddlywiki --load ~/mytw.html \
 --output /tmp --render '.' "rss.json" 'text/plain' '$:/core/templates/exporters/JsonFile' 'exportFilter' '[days:created[-30]!is[system]]'

i’d like to do the same in .rss.xml format.
after reading discussion, I am a little confused.

  • does latest TW still needs a plugin to export in rss.xml?
  • which plugin should be used (many sources are listed here)?

i installed
atomCPL

but doesn’t figure out how the export command line should be?

thanks for your help.

#29

@papiche you essentially just need a template that can be rendered to generate an RSS feed. This post provides an example of a template and the command: Has anyone generated an RSS feed from TiddlyWiki? - #8 by saqimtiaz

#30

Ok, so
Do we consider $:/plugins/sq/feeds/templates/rss a plugin ?
That must be recorded in my TW

Then the command line will be

tiddlywiki.js --load my-wiki.html --render "[[$:/plugins/sq/feeds/templates/rss]]" "feed.xml" "text/plain" "$:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler"

but what is $:/core/templates/wikified-tiddler?