Atom Feeder

This is a proof of concept

Atom Feeder is a simple PHP script that will allow to scrape a HTML page to find articles who will be transformed in an Atom Feed.

Require:

• PHP 7.3

Getting started

Clone the project

$ git clone https://github.com/giacomozr/Atom-Feeder.git

Download dependencies

$ composer install

Launch scripts

$ cd atom-feeder
$ php ./app/index.php [options]

Options

Here the supported options:

Option	Description
-u OR --url	Url to be parsed
-e OR --elements	Elements which contains anchor tags to the articles (Default: "article h1 a")
-o OR --output	Output file path
-h OR --help	Commands

Docker

A Docker image is bundled with this repository, it will allow to launch the Atom Feeder in a virtualized environment.

Build the image

$ cd atom-feeder
$ docker build -t atom-feeder .

Run the container, make sure to create a volume to retrieve the output file.

Use something like

$ docker run -v ~/host/:/usr/src/app/feeds/:rw -it --rm --name running-atom-feeder atom-feeder -uhttps://example.invalid -e"article h1 a"

Test

Basic tests to check everything is working fine

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit tests