To run the program you will have to provide two arguments :
nostrss –relays <path/to/relays> –feeds <path/to/feeds> –profiles <path/to/profiles> –update
Both provided files can be either yaml or json files.
You will find examples of the files structure in the fixtures folder.
| Key | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | String | Yes | The identifier of the feed |
| name | String | Yes | The name of the feed to be displayed in the nostr message |
| url | String | Yes | The URL of the feed |
| schedule | Cron pattern | Yes | The Cronjob rule |
| profile | Array of strings | No | The profiles to be used for this rss feed |
| tags | Array of strings | No | A list of tags to be used for messages |
| template | String | No | An optional path to a template to use for feed publishing. |
| cache_size | Integer | No | The snapshot size made in job |
| Key | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | String | Yes | The relay name |
| target | String | Yes | The url to the relay, must be a websocket service |
| active | Boolean | Yes | Not used yet, will be used to skip using relays |
| proxy | Cron pattern | No | An optional proxy to connect through |
You must configure your default Nostr identity through the environment variables.
You can use a .env file for that. Refer to the .env.dist as example.
If no private key is provided, a random one will be generated.
If you have no private key already, you can go on astral.ninja to generate one.
| Key | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | String | Yes | |
| private_key | String | Yes | |
| about | String | No | |
| name | String | No | The handle name |
| display_name | String | No | The name to be displayed |
| description | String | No | |
| picture | String | No | A valid URL to an image for picture |
| banner | String | No | A valid URL to an image for banner |
| nip05 | String | No | Identity certificatioon |
| lud16 | String | No | LN Wallet |
| pow_level | String | No | The pow difficulty to use for publishing under the current profile |
| recommended_relays | Array of relays ids | No | The relays that should be recommended to clients for the published notes |
Nostrss allows you to customize the message sent for each feed. Custom templates are optional. See RSS Feeds section to see how to provide custom templates for feeds.
If no custom template path is provided, Nostrss will automatically fallback on the default template provided in .env.dist config file.
If no default template is either provided, the feed threaded-job will panic, but the application will keep running. This avoids a global panic and keeps all sane jobs running.
If provided path for custom template is non-existant, the job will raise an error and publishing will be skipped.
Below are the variables you can use for templating :
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| name | The feed given name |
| title | The entry title |
| content | The entry content. Usually a description of the item |
| url | The URL to the entry |
| tags | The tags of the feed |
An example template is provided in the fixtures
Cronjob rules are defined in the feeds config file following the cron crate rules.
For each tick the remote feed will be matched with a local fingerprint, for which, any unmatching entry against of the feed will be broadcasted to relays.
You can run the program in a dry-run mode, so the program will run the whole processes as usual but will avoid broadcasting the final result onto the network.
When activating the dry-run mode, the programm will log the json that would have been broadcasted into the STDOUT.
To run the dry-run mode use the --dry-run flag when instanciating nostrss :
nostrss –relays <path/to/relays> –feeds <path/to/feeds> –profiles <path/to/profiles> –update
--dry-run