ranveeraggarwal / iitb-blog-aggregator

A blog aggregator for IIT Bombay using RAWDOG

IIT Bombay's Blog Aggregator

Rawdog's documentation: http://offog.org/code/rawdog/

Installation

Follow these steps. Here, <home> refers to the iitb-blog-aggregator directory.

• Make a virtual environment with Python2 (Learn how to do so here).

• Install feedparser

    pip install feedparser
  

• Install psycopg2

    pip install psycopg2
  

• Go to <home>/configurations/ and do

    cp config.example config
  

• In the config file, add path to your

  • iitb-blog-aggregator directory at three places (replace <path to github folder> aptly by Ctrl + F-ing).

Installation for Database

• Install PostgreSQL 9.5 if you haven't installed before. (Get it from here)

• Go to <home>/configurations/ and do

    cp config_db.py.example config_db.py
  

• Open <home>/configurations/config_db.py and set

  • DB_USER and DB_PASS to the username and password of the role respectively. (Make sure that the role has CREATEDB permission)

  • DB_NAME to the name of the database for connecting the first time.

• Go to <home>/configurations/ and execute

    python setup_db.py
  

Running

• Go to <home>/rawdog and run

    ./rawdog
  

• If the above works, run the following

  ./rawdog -u ./rawdog -w

Your feed would be added/updated in the database. If it doesn't work, post on the gitter chat.