NAME

crossbow — The minimalist feed aggregator

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

crossbow is a minimalist RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in C, portable across UNIX-like systems.

Instead of implementing periodic timers and running in background, crossbow is designed to be invoked periodically by cron(8).

On a system where local mail delivery is configured, the output of a cron job is mailed to the owner of the crontab. crossbow therefore needs no other user interface than the regular UNIX command line and a local mail user agent, such as mutt(1).

crossbow is composed by a collection of sub-commands:

crossbow-set(1)

Registers a feed for monitoring, or updates the configuration for a previously registered feed.

crossbow-fetch(1)

Retrieves updates from each monitored feed, processing previously unseen items.

crossbow-query(1)

Prints a list of the subscribed feeds.

crossbow-del(1)

Deletes a URL from the set of monitored feeds.

See crossbow-cookbook(7) for a quick tour among the capabilities of

ENVIRONMENT

CROSSBOW_VAR

Overrides the directory where state information is stored, otherwise defaulting to ~/.crossbow

FILES

~/.crossbow

Directory for variable state information. It is created by crossbow-set(1), while any other crossbow command expect it to exist.

This path can be changed by setting the CROSSBOW_VAR environment variable.

SEE ALSO

crossbow-del(1), crossbow-fetch(1), crossbow-list(1), crossbow-set(1), crossbow-outfmt(5), crossbow-cookbook(7), cron(8)