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Backend is written in `Go` and there is a simple javascript frontend and cat ears.
-*the cat ears are in your mind*
-
-## Huh?
-
-I decided I didn't like the [old version that was python and mongo](https://github.com/adammathes/neko_v1) so rewrote it. I wanted to learn some Go. So assume the code is not great since I don't know what I'm doing even more so than normal.
-
-The Javascript frontend is still the same, I might rewrite that too since it's old backbone.js code and in the intervening years it looks like nobody uses that anymore.
-
-This is not very easy to use/setup/ yet. Sorry! Consider it WIP, pull requests for containers/snaps/etc welcome.
+*note: the cat ears are in your mind*
## Features
@@ -31,123 +23,95 @@ This is not very easy to use/setup/ yet. Sorry! Consider it WIP, pull requests f
## Installation
-### Prerequesites
+### Requirements
* [Go](https://golang.org)
- * Persistence layer via one of either
- * [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/) (newly supported and easiest to setup)
- * [MySQL](https://dev.mysql.com) or a drop-in replacement like [MariaDB](https://mariadb.com)
-
-### Set up $GOPATH if one doesn't exist already
-
- $ mkdir $HOME/go
- $ export GOPATH=$HOME/go
-
-See also: [The GOPATH environment variable](https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH)
-
-### Get and build neko
+ * [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/)
+
+### Building
$ go get adammathes.com/neko
-This will download neko code, dependencies, and build them all in $HOME/go/src/
+This will download `neko`, dependencies, and build them all in `$GOPATH/src/`. By default this should be something like `$HOME/go/src/`.
-A `neko` binary should now be in $HOME/go/bin/
+A `neko` binary should now be in `$GOPATH/bin/`. By default this is usually `$HOME/go/bin/`
-### Database Setup
+## Configuration
-#### SQLite
+There's no configuration file -- everything is handled with a few command line flags. You shouldn't need to change the defaults most of the time.
-Initialize a new SQLite database file with `sqlite.init.sql`
+### Storage
- $ cat sqlite.init.sql | sqlite3 neko.db
+By default `neko` will create the file `neko.db` in the current directory for storage.
-#### Create MySQL table and user
+You can override the location of this database file with the `--database` command line option.
-This is harder. Use SQLite! MySQL support may be deprecated soonish.
+ $ neko --database=/var/db/neko.db --add=http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
-If you are using MySQL or equivalent --
+For expert users -- this is a [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/) database and can be manipulated with standard sqlite commands.
- $ mysqladmin -uroot -p create neko
- $ mysql -uroot -p neko < init.sql
- $ echo "probably a good idea to make a limited privilege user"
- $ mysql -uroot -p neko
- CREATE USER 'neko'@'localhost' identified by 'yourawesomepasswordgoeshere';
- GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON neko.* TO 'neko'@'localhost';
-
-Initialize the tables with --
+## Usage
- $ cat init.mysql.sql | mysql neko
+### Run Web Interface
-## Configuration
+You can do most of what you need to do with `neko` from the web interface, which is what `neko` does by default.
-Copy example configuration and edit as needed.
+ $ neko
+
+`neko` web interface should now be available at `127.0.0.1:4994` -- opening a browser up to that should show you the interface.
- $ cp $HOME/go/src/adammathes.com/neko/config.example config.json
+You can specify a different port using the `--http` option.
-The configuration is JSON which was probably not a good idea.
+ $ neko --http=9001
-| name | value | example |
-|--------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
-| `db_driver` | database driver - sqlite3 or mysql | sqlite3 |
-| `db` | mysql connection string OR sqlite file | root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/neko |
-| `web` | web address/port to bind to | 127.0.0.0.1:4994 |
-| `username` | username for single user auth | user
-| `password` | plaintext -- will be encrypted in client cookie | notagoodpassword |
-| `static_dir` | absolute path of the static files |/home/user/go/src/adammathes.com/neko/static/|
+If you are hosting on a publicly available server instead of a personal computer, you can protect the interface with a password flag --
+ $ neko --password=rssisveryimportant
### Add Feeds
- $ neko --add http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
+You can add feeds directly from the command line for convenience --
-Add as many feeds as you'd like to start. You can add more in the web ui later.
-
-Neko will look for a `config.json` in the local directory -- otherwise specify the location with the `-c` flag.
-
- $ neko --add <url> -c /path/to/config.json
+ $ neko --add=http://trenchant.org/rss.xml
### Crawl Feeds
$ neko --update
-This should fetch, download, parse, and store in the database your feeds.
-
-### Run web server
-
- $ neko --serve
-
-UI should now be available at the address in your `web` configuration setting.
-
-## Operationalize
+This will fetch, download, parse, and store in the database your feeds.
-### Crawl Regularly Via Cron
+### Export
-Depending on your binaries/configs something like --
+Export de facto RSS feed standard OPML from the command line with --
- 34 * * * * neko -c /etc/neko.config -u
+ $ neko --export=opml
--- should crawl regularly on the hour in cron.
-
-### Server as Daemon
+Change `opml` to `text` for a simple list of feed URLs, or `json` for JSON formatted output.
-There's an example configuration for systemd in etc in this repo that should work for modern Linux systems on systemd.
+Export is also available in the web interface.
-## Import/Export
+Import of OPML and other things is a TODO item.
-Import is a TODO
+## Operationalize
-Export de facto RSS feed standard OPML from the command line with --
+### Crawl Regularly Via Cron
- $ neko --export opml
+Depending on your database file and other bits --
-Change `opml` to `text` for a simple list of feed URLs, or `json` for JSON formatted output.
+ 34 * * * * neko -d /home/neko/neko.db -u
+-- should crawl regularly on the hour in cron.
## TODO
- * automate database initializtion
- * embed templates / static files into binary
- * feed / item import
- * mark all as read command
+ * import
+ * mark all as read
+ * initiate crawl from web interface
* rewrite frontend in a modern js framework
* less ugly frontend
+
+## History
+
+I decided I didn't like the [old version that was python and mongo](https://github.com/adammathes/neko_v1) so rewrote it. I wanted to learn some Go. So assume the code is not great since I don't know what I'm doing even more so than normal.
+
+The Javascript frontend is still the same, I might rewrite that too since it's old backbone.js code and in the intervening years it looks like nobody uses that anymore.