/vb-feed

Simple script to generate a JSON feed of a vBulletin thread

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

vb-feed

A simple Python script to generate a JSON Feed for threads on vBulletin forums.

Uses BeautifulSoup 4 and served over Flask!

Use the Docker build to host your own instance.

  1. Set your timezone as an environment variable (see docker docs): TZ=America/Los_Angeles

  2. Access the feed using the URL: http://<host>/?forum_url={url}&thread_id={id}

  3. Optionally, filter by user names: http://<host>/?forum_url={url}&thread_id={id}&usernames={user1,user2}

E.g.

Forum thread:
https://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=322893

Feed link:
http://<host>/thread?forum_url=https://vbulletin.org/forum&thread_id=322893

Filtered feed link:
http://<host>/thread?forum_url=https://vbulletin.org/forum&thread_id=322893&usernames=Paul%20M,Dave

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