pr2nntp

Overview

pr2nntp is a dated gateway from RSS/Atom feeds to NNTP.

In order for it to work, you’ll need an external NNTP server (usually INN, locally installed on your machine).

The gateway expects .pr2nntp/config file, that can contain a list of subscriptions, for example:

set rss(misc.scott_adams) {
    url {http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/ihdT}
}
set rss(misc.dear_lucy) {
    url {http://www.ft.com/rss/management/dear-lucy}
}

If you run

$ pr2nntp -vvs

The gateway will read that file, download & parse feeds, create (if necessary) 2 newsgroups (‘rss.misc.scott_adams’ & ‘rss.misc.dear_lucy’) & post the contents of feeds to newsgroups. It won’t post the same message twice even it you execute pr2nntp many times.

If user deletes an entry from the config file, its corresponding newsgroup will be automatically deleted on the next pr2nntp run.

Deprecation warning

This project is no longer maintained. Please consider using gmakerss instead!

Releases

Current version	1.0.3
Release date	Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:45:10 +0200
What’s new	NEWS

Requirements

NNTP server (INN);
Tcl 8.5+;
TclX;
tDOM 0.8.2;
HTTP downloader (curl or similar);
A converter from HTML to plain text (for example, w3m browser);
Russian language, because there is no docs in English at the moment.

Supported Platforms

Fedora 21
FreeBSD 9.0

Documentation

A notice about project status	README.txt
A configuration file example	pr2nntp.conf.sample
Readme	README.ru.txt
Installation	INSTALL.ru.txt
Manual	manual.ru.html

Download

Tarball	http://sourceforge.net/projects/pr2nntp/files/
Source	`git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pr2nntp/code pr2nntp-code`
gitweb	http://sourceforge.net/p/pr2nntp/code/ci/master/tree/

Screen Shots

(Not particularly useful.)

BUGS

UTF-8 feeds won’t work w/ those exact Tcl versions

8.5.16
8.6.2

See this issue if you’re interested why.

License and Copyright

GPLv3.
Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Alexander Gromnitsky <alexander.gromnitsky.at.gmail.com>.