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rsstool 1.0.0rc4 Unix (Linux) 2006 by NoisyB
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License
Usage: rsstool [OPTION] FILE(S)... URL(S)...
Read, parse, merge and write RSS (and ATOM) feeds
Supports: RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and ATOM 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
The RSS (or ATOM) feeds will be merged and re-sorted if you enter more than
one URL or FILEname
Options
-u=AGENT use user-AGENT for connecting
--curl use libcURL for downloading
--wget launch wget for downloading
--input-file=FILE download feeds found in FILE
-i=FILE same as --input-file
--log=FILE write a log to FILE (including HTTP headers)
--since=DATE pass only items (of feeds) newer than DATE
DATE can have the following formats
"Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100" (RFC 822),
"YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM", "DD MMM YYYY HH:MM",
or "YYYY-MM-DD"
--fixdate missing dates will be replaced with the current date
--version output version information and exit
--help display this help and exit
Strip & Sort
--shtml strip HTML code from descriptions
--shtml2 like --shtml but keeps links intact
--swhite strip whitespace from descriptions
--slf strip line feeds/carriage returns from descriptions
--sdesc strip the whole descriptions from feeds
-r sort reverse
Output
-o=FILE output into FILE (default: stdout)
--pipe=CMD pipe the output for a _single_ item to CMD
for used with --html, --txt, --href or --template2, only
--rss[=VERSION] output as RSS feed
VERSION=1 will write RSS v1.0
VERSION=2 will write RSS v2.0 (default)
--html output as html
--bookmarks output as bookmarks.html for use with Mozilla or Firefox
--href output only the links as plain text
--txt output as plain text
--csv output as comma-separated values CSV
--prop output as properties
Layout: NAME_NUM=VALUE
NAME will be "title", "url", etc..
NUM will be an integer counting the items
VALUE will be the content
--template=FILE|URL parse template file and replace tags with content
Tags: "<rsstool:url item=NUM>" url/link of item NUM
"<rsstool:title item=NUM>" title of item NUM
"<rsstool:desc item=NUM>" description of item
NUM
"<rsstool:date item=NUM>" date of item NUM
"<rsstool:site item=NUM>" site where item NUM
came from
"<rsstool:start item=NUM>" start of item NUM
will be replaced with
"<!--" if item NUM is
empty
"<rsstool:end item=NUM>" end of item NUM
will be replaced with
"-->" if item NUM is
empty
"<rsstool:rsstool>" rsstool notice with
version
"<rsstool:updated>" rsstool notice with
version and date
--template2=FILE|URL same as --template but repeats the whole
template for every single item
--sql[=VALUE] output as ANSI SQL script
VALUE=092 RSStool 0.9.2 db format
VALUE=094 RSStool 0.9.4 db format
VALUE=095 RSStool 0.9.5 db format
VALUE="current" use current db format (default)
--sqlold same as --sql=095
--joomla output as ANSI SQL script for import into Joomla! CMS
--dragonfly output as ANSI SQL script for import into Dragonfly CMS
Report problems/comments/ideas/whinge to noisyb@gmx.net
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