Feed
Feed reader is a Meteor package for reading feeds, such as RSS, ATOM and Twitter streaming.
#Usage
Install package from Meteor:
meteor add danielqiu:feed
##Collection Feed, such as Github, Twitter, Stackoverflow, is stored in the Feeds collection. Feed entries of each feed is stored in the FeedEntries collection. Create the two collections in the /lib directory which is shared by the server and client.
Feeds = new Meteor.Collection("feeds");
FeedEntries = new Meteor.Collection("feed_entries");
##Create Feed, init Feed and invoke Feed.read()
function feedReader() {
// pass the created collections to Feed.collections()
var collections = {
feeds: Feeds,
feed_entries: FeedEntries
}
Feed.collections(collections);
var github_feed = {
_id: Meteor.settings.github_id,
category: Meteor.settings.github_category,
link: Meteor.settings.github_link,
refresh_interval: Meteor.settings.github_refresh_interval
};
Feed.createAtomFeed(github_feed);
var stackoverflow_feed = {
_id: Meteor.settings.stackoverflow_id,
category: Meteor.settings.stackoverflow_category,
link: Meteor.settings.stackoverflow_link,
refresh_interval: Meteor.settings.stackoverflow_refresh_interval
};
Feed.createAtomFeed(stackoverflow_feed);
var twitter_feed = {
_id: Meteor.settings.twitter_id,
category: Meteor.settings.twitter_category,
link: Meteor.settings.twitter_link,
refresh_interval: Meteor.settings.twitter_refresh_interval
};
Feed.createTwitterFeed(twitter_feed);
var twitter_parameters = {
consumer_key: Meteor.settings.twitter_consumer_key,
consumer_secret: Meteor.settings.twitter_consumer_secret,
access_token: Meteor.settings.twitter_access_token,
access_token_secret: Meteor.settings.twitter_access_token_secret,
screen_name: Meteor.settings.twitter_screen_name
};
Feed.initTwitterFeed(twitter_parameters);
// invoke Feed.read() to get real-time reactive social stream
Feed.read();
}
##Settings.json
{
"twitter_consumer_key": "Your twitter consumer key here",
"twitter_consumer_secret": "Your twitter consumer secret here",
"twitter_access_token": "Your twitter access token here",
"twitter_access_token_secret": "Your twitter access token aecret here",
"github_id": "daniel's github",
"github_category": "Github",
"github_link": "https://github.com/danielqiu.atom",
"github_refresh_interval": 5000,
"stackoverflow_id": "daniel's stackoverflow",
"stackoverflow_category": "Stackoverflow",
"stackoverflow_link": "http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/1871293",
"stackoverflow_refresh_interval": 5000,
"twitter_id": "daniel's Twitter",
"twitter_category": "Twitter",
"twitter_link": "https://twitter.com/danqiu",
"twitter_refresh_interval": 5000,
"twitter_screen_name": "danqiu"
}
##Example Please visit Feed-demo to see the example.