CROSSBOW(1) General Commands Manual (urm) CROSSBOW(1)

crossbow-fetchRequest, parse and process all registered feeds

crossbow fetch [-d] [-h] [-i identifier] [-v]

The crossbow-fetch command is part of crossbow(1), the cron(8)-friendly RSS aggregator. It is responsible for retrieving, parsing, and processing all new items of the tracked feeds. In order to be tracked, a feed must be registered via crossbow-set(1).

If crossbow-fetch is invoked without options all registered feeds are updated. By supplying an identifier via the -i flag, only the corresponding feed is updated.

A feed is updated by the following sequence of actions:

When this flag is in use, crossbow-fetch will not store updates in the . This is useful when testing connectivity or the configuration of the feed. It is worth noting that, even though -d stands for , the subproc and pipe output modes will still result in the execution of the supplied sub-command. See crossbow-set(1)
Prints the synopsis and exits.
identifier
Only fetch the feed identified by identified.
Increase verbosity

Place this string in your crontab in oroder to check for updates from all feeds every two hours.

0 0-23/2 * * * crossbow-fetch

If the local mail is configured properly, the output produced by the invocation should be delivered in the user's mailbox.

crossbow(1), crossbow-del(1), crossbow-query(1), crossbow-set(1), crossbow-outfmt(5)

June 15, 2020