X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/b16c43a44095c5c3dd2dd659e63a484280501758..2ab3132d3b88afa4b23dec3bf2a38f185e7f2fed:/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 574c8b125..c40a6dc22 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -1,24 +1,15 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/useful]] +[[!template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/useful]] -This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. -Aggregate a feed as follows +This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the +wiki. To specify feeds to aggregate, use the +[[ikiwiki/directive/aggregate]] [[ikiwiki/directive]]. - \[[aggregate name="example blog" - feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" - url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]] +New users of aggregate should enable the `aggregateinternal => 1` option in the +.setup file. If you don't do so, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin +as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML. -That example aggregates posts from the specified 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 [[ikiwiki/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 +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. @@ -31,37 +22,42 @@ crontab entry: Alternatively, you can allow `ikiwiki.cgi` to trigger the aggregation. You should only need this if for some reason you cannot use cron, and instead want to use a service such as [WebCron](http://webcron.org). To enable -this, enable on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to +this, turn on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to visit is `http://whatever/ikiwiki.cgi?do=aggregate_webtrigger`. Anyone can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed. -## 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. -* `template` - Template to use for creating the html pages. Defaults to - aggregatepost. - -Note that even if you are using subversion or another revision control -system, pages created by aggregation will *not* be checked into revision -control. +## internal pages and `aggregateinternal` + +This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item. + +If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is +recommended), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a +"._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and +do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a +blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]], +like `internal(blog/*)`. + +For backward compatibility, the default is that these pages have the +".html" extension, and are first-class wiki pages -- each one generates +a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. + +That turns out to not be ideal for aggregated content, because publishing +files for each of those pages is a waste of disk space and CPU, and you +probably don't want to allow them to be edited. So, there is an alternative +method that can be used (and is recommended), turned on by the +`aggregateinternal` option in the setup file. + +If you are already using aggregate and want to enable `aggregateinternal`, +you should follow this process: + +1. Update all [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] that refer to the aggregated + pages -- such as those in inlines. Put "internal()" around globs + in those PageSpecs. For example, if the PageSpec was `foo/*`, it should + be changed to `internal(foo/*)`. This has to be done because internal + pages are not matched by regular globs. +2. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file. +3. Use [[ikiwiki-transition]] to rename all existing aggregated `.html` + files in the srcdir. The command to run is + `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $setupfile`, +4. Refresh the wiki. (`ikiwiki -setup your.setup -refresh`)