journal-rss

A FastAPI web server for creating RSS feeds for scholarly journals with the magic of adversarial interoperability

Many journals still have RSS feeds. Some don't though, as they try and squeeze everyone onto their platforms to monetize our engagement data.

This is a simple web app for creating RSS feeds for journals by collecting metadata from crossref. Dependencies are kept minimal, as is deployment - No webpack, no complex build, no postgres, just pip install and press play :).

usage

(to be completed when main docs are, for now here's something brief)

git clone https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/journal-rss
cd journal-rss
python -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install .
python -m journal_rss

progress

Everything is just getting started! things will break and change!

API:

• Query Crossref for journal
• Write journal metadata to db
• Paginate papers by journal
• Store papers in db
• Populate papers when feed created
• Create RSS feed from papers by issn
• Cache RSS feeds
• Scheduled update of feed metadata

Frontend

• Search for journal
• Display list of journals
• Pages for each journal
• Create new feed button
• Copy feed link
• Export feeds

Credits

• https://github.com/marty331/fasthtmx/
• https://samherbert.net/svg-loaders/
• https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/