[[template id=plugin name=aggregate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] [[tag type/useful]] This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. Aggregate a feed as follows \[[aggregate name="example blog" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]] That example aggregates posts from the expecified RSS feed, updating no more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under the example/ directory in the wiki. You can then use ikiwiki's [[blog]] support to create a blog of one or more aggregated feeds. ## setup Make sure that you have the [[html]] plugin enabled, as the created pages are in html format. The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The [[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html problems, some of which tidy can fix. You will need to run ikiwiki periodically from a cron job, passing it the --aggregate parameter, to make it check for new posts. Here's an example crontab entry: */15 * * * * ikiwiki --setup my.wiki --aggregate --refresh ## usage Here are descriptions of all the supported parameters to the `aggregate` directive: * `name` - A name for the feed. Each feed must have a unique name. Required. * `url` - The url to the web page for the feed that's being aggregated. Required. * `dir` - The directory in the wiki where pages should be saved. Optional, if not specified, the directory is based on the name of the feed. * `feedurl` - The url to the feed. Optional, if it's not specified ikiwiki will look for feeds on the `url`. RSS and atom feeds are supported. * `updateinterval` - How often to check for new posts, in minutes. Default is 15 minutes. * `expireage` - Expire old items from this feed if they are older than a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age. * `expirecount` - Expire old items from this feed if there are more than the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default is to never expire on count. * `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the feed with. A good tag to use is the name of the feed. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin must be enabled for this to work. Note that even if you are using subversion or another revision control system, pages created by aggregation will *not* be checked into revision control.