rss-thread-watcher/README.org

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* RSS based thread watcher

Get notifications from your feed reader when your favourite /mlp/ thread is about to die

** Usage

1) Open your RSS feed reader (you have one right?)
2) Add your custom URL (see getting custom URL)
3) Enable notifications in your feed reader and set update interval to 5minutes or more (you can set less but the feed is updated
   only every 5 minutes)
4) Profit! RSS feed will include only the threads matching your querry so every notification your feed reader will send means your
   watched thread is about to die

*NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE, IF YOUR THREAD DIES BECAUSE OF RSS-WATCHER MALLFUNCTION DO NOT BLAME ME* pls

** Getting custom URL

URL without any params (just ~/feed.xml~) won't work. You must specify at least one ~q~. See bellow.

*** Crafting URL by hand

Right now there is no automated way to generate your feed url but making one by hand is fairly simple.

**** URL parameters

| Param name | Values [default]        | Can have multiple? | Mandatory?              | Short description                                                                                |
|------------+-------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| board      | "mlp"                   | No                 | No (not implemented)    | Which board to generate feed for, *ONLY* ​/mlp​/ is supported                                      |
| q          | nil                     | Yes                | Yes (1 or more)         | This string is used to filter threads according to their titles                                  |
| chod       | 60-99 [94]              | No                 | No                      | CHanceOfDeath - will include thread in the feed if it's chance to death i > chod                 |
| repeat     | true, paranoid, [false] | No                 | No (partly implemented) | Whether to make new notification on every server update even when thread doesnt have higher chod |
| recreate   | ~bool~                  | Not implemented    | Not implemented         | Whether to notify when creation of new thread matching querry is detected (uses 4chans RSS)      |

**** How to create URL

Standart rules of URLs apply, if you know how to pass params in URL to any website, you don't even have to read this

- Open some text editor
- Paste in default URL: ~https://tools.treebrary.org/thread-watcher/feed.xml?~ (you can use plain HTTP if you want to)
- Now you can append any of the supported parameters (which you can find in the above table):
- For example if we want to be informed about threads with "cute" in their title
  - ~q=cute~ which would make ~https://tools.treebrary.org/thread-watcher/feed.xml?q=cute~
- If you want more than one param, separate with ~&~, for example:
  - ~q=cute~ and ~q=pretty~ would be ~https://tools.treebrary.org/thread-watcher/feed.xml?q=cute&q=pretty~
- Same is true for when you also want to specify ChoD
  - ~https://tools.treebrary.org/thread-watcher/feed.xml?q=cute&q=pretty&chod=98~
  - This will only notify you about threads that:
    - Have ~cute~ or ~pretty~ in their title
    - Are in the lowest 98% part of catalog (it's on position ~147/150 e.g. 3 threads before being bumped off)
- Note that ~//~ are not special characters ~q=/general/~ will work as expected and match thread with "​/general​/" in it's title
- Also note that regex is *NOT* supported for now, so something like ~q=rainbow*~ will only match threads with "rainbow" followed
  immedidatelly by ~*~
  in their title

*** Generating URL interactively

Coming soon

** Limitations

This is an experimental project. There are several limitations:
- Only supported board is ​/mlp​/ (You can choose your own when self hosting)
- Only searched threads are those who are in the 50% closer to death part of the catalog

*** Bugs

See [[https://git.treebrary.org/Treebrary.org/rss-thread-watcher/issues][issues]]

** Feature set

- Planned/finnished features [23%]
  - [X] [DONE] Super basic features done (feed, query, repeat)
  - [X] Have proper sorting - The most likely to die threads first
  - [X] No params request should redirect to url generator or (for now) documentation
  - [ ] Config file instead of hardcoding config values
  - [ ] Include time of latest data fetch
  - [ ] Make threads have preview images taken from the actuall thread OP
  - [ ] Show which query matched the thread you were notified of
  - [ ] Option to include advanced HTML formating of text (different color text for ChoD etc)
  - [ ] Support notification on watched thread re-creation after it died
  - [ ] Support notification for thread death
  - [ ] Support multiple boards at once
  - [ ] Support async responses
  - [ ] Graal VM support for native configuration

** Self hosting

This is not supported until release 1.0. You can do it if you figure it out (probably not that hard tbh) but there will be much
more detailed instructions in the future.

*** Prebuilt

There will be instructions at some point I promise. Until then you can download binaries from the releases page and run them like
you would any other java executable, default port is ~6969~.

And you need Java for now if that isn't clear.

~$ java -jar whatEverNameTheReleaseHas.jar~~

*** From source

If you know Clojure, then just clone and build with lein. If you don't either RTFM to lein or wait before instructions will be
avaiabile here.

*** Configuring

Self hosting is not supported at the moment so no configuration for you. 

*** Contributing

[[https://treebrary.org/about-the-git-server.html][See]]

** License - AGPL3

Copyright © 2023  Felisp

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.