Initial release

.gitignore

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 node_modules/*
+output/index.html

README.md

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+# 🦉 Bubo Reader
+
+Bubo is a somewhat irrationally minimalist <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym> feed reader you can deploy on Netlify in a few simple steps. It is named after this [silly robot owl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSeCfo9-NI) from Clash of the Titans (1981).
+
+I created this one weekend after nostalgically lamenting the [demise of Google Reader](https://killedbygoogle.com/) many years ago. Many RSS feed reader services have sprouted up since then but they all do more than I need. I wanted something that: 
+
+- Had an absurdly simple interface that relied almost entirely on default HTML element behaviors and functionality
+- Could be themed with CSS or mildly extended using JavaScript, if I wanted (but I decided not to)
+- Didn't worry about pulling in the feed content into the reader's interface. I'm happy to read most content on the site it originated from. I just wanted a single dashboard to see when new stuff is published and available.
+- Didn't rely on a database to see what I've read or keep an archive of content over time.
+
+## What does "irrationally minimalist" mean?
+
+Many RSS readers—including the former Google Reader—would pull the contents of a post into your feed so you could read everything in one place. Although I completely understand why someone would want to do that, I decided even that introduced too much complexity for my liking.
+
+My goal with Bubo was to be able to see a list of the most recent posts from websites I like in one place with links to read them if I want. That's it. If I want to read something, I'll click through and read it on the publisher's site. If I want to keep track of what I've clicked on and read I can reflect that using the `a:visited` pseudo selector in my CSS.
+
+Bubo does not store posts in a database or keep track of what I've read. If an item is no longer available in the site's feed then it no longer appears in Bubo. If I miss something, that's just life. I can live with that.
+
+## What about authentication?
+
+There is no authenticaton required for Bubo. Netlify does offer Basic Authentication under their [Pro plan](https://www.netlify.com/pricing/), which would be an easy solution to implement. You could probably also utilize their [Identity](https://www.netlify.com/docs/identity/?_ga=2.147267447.1334380953.1567004741-1681444902.1549770801) feature to add some authentication. I don't subscribe to any private or sensitive feeds, so at the moment that isn't much of a priority for this project.
+
+## Anatomy of Bubo Reader
+
+- `src/index.html` - a [Nunjucks](https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/) template that lets you change how the feeds are displayed
+- `output/style.css` - a CSS file to stylize your feed output
+- `src/feeds.json` - a JSON file containing the URLs for various site's feeds separated into categories
+- `src/index.js` - the script that loads the feeds and does the actual parsinga and rendering
+
+## Adding Feeds
+
+Find them in the site's source code and add them to the `feeds.json` file. This is the trickiest part of this whole setup I suppose.
+
+The first version of this project used [Puppeteer](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer) to extract the feeds from a site. This was actually quite cool, but would hang or fail periodicially. I was running this on its own server. It's on my list to look into converting this into a serverless version that could run using Netlify's Functions, but after using my own project for a month I realized it didn't make the thing feel much more usable to me. Builds were slow and there was a lot of work making sure things didn't timeout or use too much memory on the server. Simply parsing a list of known RSS feeds was much simpler and faster.
+
+## Updating
+
+The beauty of running Bubo on Netlify is you can [setup a Build Hook](https://www.netlify.com/docs/webhooks/#incoming-webhooks) to rebuild the site when you want to "refresh" the list of feeds. I'm using [IFTTT](https://ifttt.com) to trigger rebuilds once an hour, which is a perfectly sane rate to consume information at. You could do the same, or use another service like Zapier, EasyCron, setup a cronjob on your server or even setup a cronjob to run locally on your machine and ping the hook as often as you wish.
+
+## How to use
+
+- Clone this repository
+- Find RSS feeds and add them to `src/feeds.json`
+- Go to Netlify and deploy site from GitHub.
+- That's it!
+
+You'll probably want it to update regularly though.
+
+### Instructiosn for IFTTT
+### Instructions for Zapier
+### Instructions for EasyCron
+### Instructions for cronjob (local or otherwise)
+
+## Sponsor
+
+If you found this useful please consider sponsoring me or this project. If you'd rather run this on your own server please consider using one of these affiliates links to setup a $5 instance on [Linode](https://www.linode.com/?r=8729957ab02b50a695dcea12a5ca55570979d8b9) or [Digital Ocean](https://m.do.co/c/31f58d367777).
+ 

netlify.toml

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+[build]  
+  command = "npm run build"
+  publish = "output/"
+

output/style.css

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+body {
+  font-family:system-ui;
+  font-size: 18px;
+}
+
+
+
+  details:focus,
+  details:focus-within,
+  details:hover {
+    /* background:#ffeb3b; */
+    /* outline:2px #000 solid; */
+  }
+
+
+  details ul li {
+  
+  }
+
+  summary {
+    cursor:pointer;
+  }
+
+  summary:hover {
+    opacity:.75;
+  }
+
+  .feed-url {
+    color:#aaa;
+  }

package.json

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   "description": "A somewhat dumb but effective feed reader (RSS, JSON & Twitter)",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "scripts": {
+    "build": "node src/index.js > output/index.html",
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },
   "author": "",
   "license": "ISC",
   "dependencies": {
-    "puppeteer": "^1.17.0",
+    "node-fetch": "^2.6.0",
+    "nunjucks": "^3.2.0",
     "rss-parser": "^3.6.3"
   }
 }

src/feeds.json

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+{  
+  "Blogs": [    
+    "https://george.mand.is/feed.xml"    
+  ],
+  "GitHub": [
+    "https://github.com/georgemandis.atom?tab=repositories",
+    "https://github.com/snaptortoise/konami-js/releases.atom",
+    "https://github.com/snaptortoise/konami-js/commits/master.atom",
+    "https://github.com/javascriptforartists/cheer-me-up-and-sing-me-a-song/commits/master.atom",
+    "https://github.com/georgemandis/circuit-playground-midi-multi-tool/commits/master.atom",
+    "https://github.com/georgemandis/remote-working-list/commits/master.atom",
+    "https://github.com/georgemandis/tweeter-totter/commits/master.atom"
+  ]
+}

src/index.js

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+/**
+ * 🦉 Bubo RSS Reader
+ * ====
+ * Dead, dead simple feed reader that renders an HTML
+ * page with links to content from feeds organized by site
+ *
+ */
+
+const fetch = require("node-fetch");
+const Parser = require("rss-parser");
+const parser = new Parser();
+
+const nunjucks = require("nunjucks");
+const env = nunjucks.configure({ autoescape: true });
+
+const feeds = require("./feeds.json");
+
+env.addFilter("formatDate", function(dateString) {
+  const formattedDate = new Date(dateString).toLocaleDateString()
+  return formattedDate !== 'Invalid Date' ? formattedDate : dateString;
+});
+
+// parse XML or JSON feeds
+function parseFeed(response) {
+  const contentType = response.headers.get("content-type")
+    ? response.headers.get("content-type").split(";")[0]
+    : false;
+
+  const rssFeed = [contentType]
+    .map(item =>
+      [
+        "application/atom+xml",
+        "application/rss+xml",
+        "application/xml",
+        "text/xml",
+        "text/html" // this is kind of a gamble
+      ].includes(item)
+        ? response.text()
+        : false
+    )
+    .filter(_ => _)[0];
+
+  const jsonFeed = [contentType]
+    .map(item =>
+      ["application/json"].includes(item) ? response.json() : false
+    )
+    .filter(_ => _)[0];
+
+  return rssFeed || jsonFeed || false;
+}
+
+(async () => {
+  const contentFromAllFeeds = {};
+  const errors = [];
+
+  for (group in feeds) {
+    contentFromAllFeeds[group] = [];
+
+    for (let index = 0; index < feeds[group].length; index++) {
+      try {
+        const response = await fetch(feeds[group][index]);
+        const body = await parseFeed(response);
+        const contents =
+          typeof body === "string" ? await parser.parseString(body) : body;
+
+        contents.feed = feeds[group][index];
+        contents.title = contents.title ? contents.title : contents.link;
+        contentFromAllFeeds[group].push(contents);
+        
+        // try to normalize date attribute naming
+        contents.items.forEach(item => {
+          const timestamp = new Date(item.pubDate || item.isoDate || item.date).getTime();          
+          item.timestamp = isNaN(timestamp) ? (item.pubDate || item.isoDate || item.date) : timestamp;
+        });        
+
+      } catch (error) {
+        errors.push(feeds[group][index]);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  const output = env.render("./src/template.html", {
+    data: contentFromAllFeeds,
+    errors: errors
+  });
+  console.log(output);
+})();

src/template.html

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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+  <meta charset="UTF-8">
+  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
+  <title>🦉 Bubo Reader</title>
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
+</head>
+<body>
+
+  <h1>🦉 Bubo Reader</h1>
+
+  {% for group, feeds in data %}    
+  <h2>{{ group }}</h2>
+    {% for feed  in feeds %} 
+      <details>
+        <summary>
+          <span class="feed-title">{{ feed.title }}</span> 
+          <span class="feed-url">({{ feed.feed }})</span>
+        </summary>
+        <ul>
+          {% for item in feed.items %}
+            <li>              
+              {{ item.timestamp | formatDate }} - <a href="{{ item.link }}" target='_blank' rel='noopener norefferer nofollow'>{{ item.title }}</a>
+            </li>
+          {% endfor %}
+        </ul>
+      </details>
+    {% endfor %}
+  {% endfor %}  
+
+  {% if errors | length > 0 %}
+    <h2>Errors</h2>
+    <p>There were errors trying to parse these feeds:</p>
+    <ul>
+    {% for error in errors %}
+      <li>{{ error }}</li>
+    {% endfor %}
+    </ul>
+  {% endif %}
+</body>
+</html>