org-feed.el: Documentation

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;;; Commentary:
;; This library allows to create entries in an Org-mode file from
;; RSS feeds.
;;
;; Selecting feeds and target locations
;; -----------------------------------
;;
;; This module is configured through a single variable, `org-feed-alist'.
;; Here is an example, using a notes/tasks feed from reQall.com.
;;
;; (setq org-feed-alist
;; '(("ReQall"
;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries" nil)
;;
;; With this setup, the command `M-x org-feed-update-all' will
;; collect new entries in the feed at the given URL and create
;; entries as subheading under the "ReQall Entries" heading in the
;; file "~/org.feeds.org". The final entry in this list can be
;; a filter function to further process the parsed information. For
;; example, here we turn entries with "<category>Task</category>"
;; into TODO entries by adding the keyword to the title:
;;
;; (setq org-feed-alist
;; '(("ReQall"
;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries"
;; my-raquall-filter)))
;; This library allows to create entries in an Org-mode file from
;; RSS feeds.
;;
;; (defun my-requall-filter (e)
;; (when (equal (plist-get e :category) "Task")
;; (setq e (plist-put e :title
;; (concat "TODO " (plist-get e :title)))))
;; e)
;;
;; The filter function may also decide that certain feed items
;; should be ignored, by returning nil instead of the entry.
;;
;; See the docstring of `org-feed-alist' for more details.
;;
;; Keeping track of old GUIDs
;; --------------------------
;;
;; Since Org allows you to delete, archive, or move outline nodes,
;; org-feed needs to keep track of all GUIDs in the feed it has
;; already processed. It does so by listing them in a special
;; drawer, FEEDGUIDS, under the heading that received the input of
;; te feed. You should add FEEDGUIDS to your list of drawers
;; in the files that receive feed input:
;;
;; #+DRAWERS: PROPERTIES LOGBOOK FEEDGUIDS
;;
;; Acknowledgements
;; ----------------
;;
;; It is based on ideas by Brad Bozarth who implemented it using
;; shell and awk scripts, and who in this way made me for the first
;; time look into an RSS feed, showing me how simple this really
;; was.
;; Selecting feeds and target locations
;; -----------------------------------
;;
;; This module is configured through a single variable, `org-feed-alist'.
;; Here is an example, using a notes/tasks feed from reQall.com.
;;
;; (setq org-feed-alist
;; '(("ReQall"
;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries" nil)
;;
;; With this setup, the command `M-x org-feed-update-all' will
;; collect new entries in the feed at the given URL and create
;; entries as subheading under the "ReQall Entries" heading in the
;; file "~/org.feeds.org". The final element in the alist entry in
;; this list can be a filter function to further process the parsed
;; information. For example, here we turn entries with
;; "<category>Task</category>" into TODO entries by adding the
;; keyword to the title:
;;
;; (setq org-feed-alist
;; '(("ReQall"
;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries"
;; my-raquall-filter)))
;;
;; (defun my-requall-filter (e)
;; (when (equal (plist-get e :category) "Task")
;; (setq e (plist-put e :title
;; (concat "TODO " (plist-get e :title)))))
;; e)
;;
;; Another possibility for the filter function would be to format
;; the entire Org node for the feed item, by adding the formatted
;; entry as a `:formatted-for-org' property:
;;
;;
;; (defun my-requall-filter (e)
;; (setq e (plist-put
;; e :formatted-for-org
;; (format "* %s\n%s"
;; (plist-get e :title)
;; (plist-get e :description))))
;; e)
;;
;; The filter function may also decide that certain feed items
;; should be ignored, by returning nil instead of the entry.
;;
;;
;; Keeping track of old GUIDs
;; --------------------------
;;
;; Since Org allows you to delete, archive, or move outline nodes,
;; org-feed.el needs to keep track of GUIDs in the feed it has
;; already processed. It does so by listing them in a special
;; drawer, FEEDGUIDS, under the heading that received the input of
;; te feed. You should add FEEDGUIDS to your list of drawers
;; in the files that receive feed input:
;;
;; #+DRAWERS: PROPERTIES LOGBOOK FEEDGUIDS
;;
;; Acknowledgements
;; ----------------
;;
;; org-feed.el is based on ideas by Brad Bozarth who implemented it
;; using shell and awk scripts, and who in this way made me for the
;; first time look into an RSS feed, showing me how simple this really
;; was.
(require 'org)