1 ;;; org-feed.el --- Add RSS feed items to Org files
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten at orgmode dot org>
6 ;; Keywords: outlines, hypermedia, calendar, wp
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27 ;; This module allows to create and change entries in an Org-mode
28 ;; file triggered by items in an RSS feed. The basic functionality is
29 ;; geared toward simply adding new items found in a feed as outline nodes
30 ;; to an Org file. Using hooks, arbitrary actions can be triggered for
31 ;; new or changed items.
33 ;; Selecting feeds and target locations
34 ;; ------------------------------------
36 ;; This module is configured through a single variable, `org-feed-alist'.
37 ;; Here is an example, using a notes/tasks feed from reQall.com.
39 ;; (setq org-feed-alist
41 ;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
42 ;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries")
44 ;; With this setup, the command `M-x org-feed-update-all' will
45 ;; collect new entries in the feed at the given URL and create
46 ;; entries as subheadings under the "ReQall Entries" heading in the
47 ;; file "~/org/feeds.org". Each feed should normally have its own
48 ;; heading - however see the `:drawer' parameter.
50 ;; Besides these standard elements that need to be specified for each
51 ;; feed, keyword-value pairs can set additional options. For example,
52 ;; to de-select transitional entries with a title containing
54 ;; "reQall is typing what you said",
56 ;; you could use the `:filter' argument:
58 ;; (setq org-feed-alist
60 ;; "http://www.reqall.com/user/feeds/rss/a1b2c3....."
61 ;; "~/org/feeds.org" "ReQall Entries"
62 ;; :filter my-reqall-filter)))
64 ;; (defun my-reqall-filter (e)
65 ;; (if (string-match "reQall is typing what you said"
66 ;; (plist-get e :title))
70 ;; See the docstring for `org-feed-alist' for more details.
73 ;; Keeping track of previously added entries
74 ;; -----------------------------------------
76 ;; Since Org allows you to delete, archive, or move outline nodes,
77 ;; org-feed.el needs to keep track of which feed items have been handled
78 ;; before, so that they will not be handled again. For this, org-feed.el
79 ;; stores information in a special drawer, FEEDSTATUS, under the heading
80 ;; that received the input of the feed. You should add FEEDSTATUS
81 ;; to your list of drawers in the files that receive feed input:
83 ;; #+DRAWERS: PROPERTIES LOGBOOK FEEDSTATUS
88 ;; org-feed.el is based on ideas by Brad Bozarth who implemented a
89 ;; similar mechanism using shell and awk scripts.
96 (declare-function url-retrieve-synchronously
"url" (url))
97 (declare-function xml-node-children
"xml" (node))
98 (declare-function xml-get-children
"xml" (node child-name
))
99 (declare-function xml-get-attribute
"xml" (node attribute
))
100 (declare-function xml-get-attribute-or-nil
"xml" (node attribute
))
101 (declare-function xml-substitute-special
"xml" (string))
103 (defgroup org-feed nil
104 "Options concerning RSS feeds as inputs for Org files."
108 (defcustom org-feed-alist nil
109 "Alist specifying RSS feeds that should create inputs for Org.
110 Each entry in this list specified an RSS feed tat should be queried
111 to create inbox items in Org. Each entry is a list with the following items:
113 name a custom name for this feed
115 file the target Org file where entries should be listed
116 headline the headline under which entries should be listed
118 Additional arguments can be given using keyword-value pairs. Many of these
119 specify functions that receive one or a list of \"entries\" as their single
120 argument. An entry is a property list that describes a feed item. The
121 property list has properties for each field in the item, for example `:title'
122 for the `<title>' field and `:pubDate' for the publication date. In addition,
123 it contains the following properties:
125 `:item-full-text' the full text in the <item> tag
126 `:guid-permalink' t when the guid property is a permalink
128 Here are the keyword-value pair allows in `org-feed-alist'.
131 The name of the drawer for storing feed information. The default is
132 \"FEEDSTATUS\". Using different drawers for different feeds allows
133 several feeds to target the same inbox heading.
135 :filter filter-function
136 A function to select interesting entries in the feed. It gets a single
137 entry as parameter. It should return the entry if it is relevant, or
140 :template template-string
141 The default action on new items in the feed is to add them as children
142 under the headline for the feed. The template describes how the entry
143 should be formatted. If not given, it defaults to
144 `org-feed-default-template'.
146 :formatter formatter-function
147 Instead of relying on a template, you may specify a function to format
148 the outline node to be inserted as a child. This function gets passed
149 a property list describing a single feed item, and it should return a
150 string that is a properly formatted Org outline node of level 1.
152 :new-handler function
153 If adding new items as children to the outline is not what you want
154 to do with new items, define a handler function that is called with
155 a list of all new items in the feed, each one represented as a property
156 list. The handler should do what needs to be done, and org-feed will
157 mark all items given to this handler as \"handled\", i.e. they will not
158 be passed to this handler again in future readings of the feed.
159 When the handler is called, point will be at the feed headline.
161 :changed-handler function
162 This function gets passed a list of all entries that have been
163 handled before, but are now still in the feed and have *changed*
164 since last handled (as evidenced by a different sha1 hash).
165 When the handler is called, point will be at the feed headline.
168 This function gets passed a buffer, and should return a list
169 of entries, each being a property list containing the
170 `:guid' and `:item-full-text' keys. The default is
171 `org-feed-parse-rss-feed'; `org-feed-parse-atom-feed' is an
174 :parse-entry function
175 This function gets passed an entry as returned by the parse-feed
176 function, and should return the entry with interesting properties added.
177 The default is `org-feed-parse-rss-entry'; `org-feed-parse-atom-entry'
181 (list :value
("" "http://" "" "")
183 (string :tag
"Feed URL")
184 (file :tag
"File for inbox")
185 (string :tag
"Headline for inbox")
188 (list :inline t
:tag
"Filter"
190 (symbol :tag
"Filter Function"))
191 (list :inline t
:tag
"Template"
193 (string :tag
"Template"))
194 (list :inline t
:tag
"Formatter"
196 (symbol :tag
"Formatter Function"))
197 (list :inline t
:tag
"New items handler"
199 (symbol :tag
"Handler Function"))
200 (list :inline t
:tag
"Changed items"
201 (const :changed-handler
)
202 (symbol :tag
"Handler Function"))
203 (list :inline t
:tag
"Parse Feed"
205 (symbol :tag
"Parse Feed Function"))
206 (list :inline t
:tag
"Parse Entry"
208 (symbol :tag
"Parse Entry Function"))
211 (defcustom org-feed-drawer
"FEEDSTATUS"
212 "The name of the drawer for feed status information.
213 Each feed may also specify its own drawer name using the `:drawer'
214 parameter in `org-feed-alist'.
215 Note that in order to make these drawers behave like drawers, they must
216 be added to the variable `org-drawers' or configured with a #+DRAWERS
219 :type
'(string :tag
"Drawer Name"))
221 (defcustom org-feed-default-template
"\n* %h\n %U\n %description\n %a\n"
222 "Template for the Org node created from RSS feed items.
223 This is just the default, each feed can specify its own.
224 Any fields from the feed item can be interpolated into the template with
225 %name, for example %title, %description, %pubDate etc. In addition, the
226 following special escapes are valid as well:
228 %h the title, or the first line of the description
229 %t the date as a stamp, either from <pubDate> (if present), or
232 %u,%U like %t,%T, but inactive time stamps
233 %a A link, from <guid> if that is a permalink, else from <link>"
235 :type
'(string :tag
"Template"))
237 (defcustom org-feed-save-after-adding t
238 "Non-nil means save buffer after adding new feed items."
242 (defcustom org-feed-retrieve-method
'url-retrieve-synchronously
243 "The method to be used to retrieve a feed URL.
244 This can be `curl' or `wget' to call these external programs, or it can be
245 an Emacs Lisp function that will return a buffer containing the content
246 of the file pointed to by the URL."
249 (const :tag
"Internally with url.el" url-retrieve-synchronously
)
250 (const :tag
"Externally with curl" curl
)
251 (const :tag
"Externally with wget" wget
)
252 (function :tag
"Function")))
254 (defcustom org-feed-before-adding-hook nil
255 "Hook that is run before adding new feed items to a file.
256 You might want to commit the file in its current state to version control,
261 (defcustom org-feed-after-adding-hook nil
262 "Hook that is run after new items have been added to a file.
263 Depending on `org-feed-save-after-adding', the buffer will already
268 (defvar org-feed-buffer
"*Org feed*"
269 "The buffer used to retrieve a feed.")
272 (defun org-feed-update-all ()
273 "Get inbox items from all feeds in `org-feed-alist'."
275 (let ((nfeeds (length org-feed-alist
))
276 (nnew (apply '+ (mapcar 'org-feed-update org-feed-alist
))))
277 (message "%s from %d %s"
278 (cond ((= nnew
0) "No new entries")
279 ((= nnew
1) "1 new entry")
280 (t (format "%d new entries" nnew
)))
282 (if (= nfeeds
1) "feed" "feeds"))))
285 (defun org-feed-update (feed &optional retrieve-only
)
286 "Get inbox items from FEED.
287 FEED can be a string with an association in `org-feed-alist', or
288 it can be a list structured like an entry in `org-feed-alist'."
289 (interactive (list (org-completing-read "Feed name: " org-feed-alist
)))
290 (if (stringp feed
) (setq feed
(assoc feed org-feed-alist
)))
292 (error "No such feed in `org-feed-alist"))
294 (let ((name (car feed
))
297 (headline (nth 3 feed
))
298 (filter (nth 1 (memq :filter feed
)))
299 (formatter (nth 1 (memq :formatter feed
)))
300 (new-handler (nth 1 (memq :new-handler feed
)))
301 (changed-handler (nth 1 (memq :changed-handler feed
)))
302 (template (or (nth 1 (memq :template feed
))
303 org-feed-default-template
))
304 (drawer (or (nth 1 (memq :drawer feed
))
306 (parse-feed (or (nth 1 (memq :parse-feed feed
))
307 'org-feed-parse-rss-feed
))
308 (parse-entry (or (nth 1 (memq :parse-entry feed
))
309 'org-feed-parse-rss-entry
))
310 feed-buffer inbox-pos new-formatted
311 entries old-status status new changed guid-alist e guid olds
)
312 (setq feed-buffer
(org-feed-get-feed url
))
313 (unless (and feed-buffer
(bufferp (get-buffer feed-buffer
)))
314 (error "Cannot get feed %s" name
))
316 (throw 'exit feed-buffer
))
317 (setq entries
(funcall parse-feed feed-buffer
))
318 (ignore-errors (kill-buffer feed-buffer
))
320 (save-window-excursion
321 (setq inbox-pos
(org-feed-goto-inbox-internal file headline
))
322 (setq old-status
(org-feed-read-previous-status inbox-pos drawer
))
323 ;; Add the "handled" status to the appropriate entries
324 (setq entries
(mapcar (lambda (e)
326 (plist-put e
:handled
331 ;; Find out which entries are new and which are changed
333 (if (not (plist-get e
:handled
))
335 (setq olds
(nth 2 (assoc (plist-get e
:guid
) old-status
)))
338 (plist-get e
:item-full-text
))
342 ;; Parse the relevant entries fully
343 (setq new
(mapcar parse-entry new
)
344 changed
(mapcar parse-entry changed
))
348 (setq new
(delq nil
(mapcar filter new
))
349 changed
(delq nil
(mapcar filter new
))))
351 (when (not (or new changed
))
352 (message "No new items in feed %s" name
)
355 ;; Get alist based on guid, to look up entries
358 (mapcar (lambda (e) (list (plist-get e
:guid
) e
)) new
)
359 (mapcar (lambda (e) (list (plist-get e
:guid
) e
)) changed
)))
361 ;; Construct the new status
365 (setq guid
(plist-get e
:guid
))
367 ;; things count as handled if we handle them now,
368 ;; or if they were handled previously
369 (if (assoc guid guid-alist
) t
(plist-get e
:handled
))
370 ;; A hash, to detect changes
371 (sha1 (plist-get e
:item-full-text
))))
374 ;; Handle new items in the feed
378 (goto-char inbox-pos
)
379 (funcall new-handler new
))
380 ;; No custom handler, do the default adding
381 ;; Format the new entries into an alist with GUIDs in the car
384 (lambda (e) (org-feed-format-entry e template formatter
))
387 ;; Insert the new items
388 (org-feed-add-items inbox-pos new-formatted
))
390 ;; Handle changed items in the feed
391 (when (and changed-handler changed
)
392 (goto-char inbox-pos
)
393 (funcall changed-handler changed
))
395 ;; Write the new status
396 ;; We do this only now, in case something goes wrong above, so
397 ;; that would would end up with a status that does not reflect
398 ;; which items truely have been handled
399 (org-feed-write-status inbox-pos drawer status
)
401 ;; Normalize the visibility of the inbox tree
402 (goto-char inbox-pos
)
405 (org-cycle-hide-drawers 'children
)
407 ;; Hooks and messages
408 (when org-feed-save-after-adding
(save-buffer))
409 (message "Added %d new item%s from feed %s to file %s, heading %s"
410 (length new
) (if (> (length new
) 1) "s" "")
412 (file-name-nondirectory file
) headline
)
413 (run-hooks 'org-feed-after-adding-hook
)
417 (defun org-feed-goto-inbox (feed)
418 "Go to the inbox that captures the feed named FEED."
420 (list (if (= (length org-feed-alist
) 1)
422 (org-completing-read "Feed name: " org-feed-alist
))))
423 (if (stringp feed
) (setq feed
(assoc feed org-feed-alist
)))
425 (error "No such feed in `org-feed-alist"))
426 (org-feed-goto-inbox-internal (nth 2 feed
) (nth 3 feed
)))
429 (defun org-feed-show-raw-feed (feed)
430 "Show the raw feed buffer of a feed."
432 (list (if (= (length org-feed-alist
) 1)
434 (org-completing-read "Feed name: " org-feed-alist
))))
435 (if (stringp feed
) (setq feed
(assoc feed org-feed-alist
)))
437 (error "No such feed in `org-feed-alist"))
438 (org-pop-to-buffer-same-window
439 (org-feed-update feed
'retrieve-only
))
440 (goto-char (point-min)))
442 (defun org-feed-goto-inbox-internal (file heading
)
443 "Find or create HEADING in FILE.
444 Switch to that buffer, and return the position of that headline."
447 (goto-char (point-min))
448 (if (re-search-forward
449 (concat "^\\*+[ \t]+" heading
"[ \t]*\\(:.*?:[ \t]*\\)?$")
451 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
452 (goto-char (point-max))
453 (insert "\n\n* " heading
"\n\n")
454 (org-back-to-heading t
))
457 (defun org-feed-read-previous-status (pos drawer
)
458 "Get the alist of old GUIDs from the entry at POS.
459 This will find DRAWER and extract the alist."
462 (let ((end (save-excursion (org-end-of-subtree t t
))))
463 (if (re-search-forward
464 (concat "^[ \t]*:" drawer
":[ \t]*\n\\([^\000]*?\\)\n[ \t]*:END:")
466 (read (match-string 1))
469 (defun org-feed-write-status (pos drawer status
)
470 "Write the feed STATUS to DRAWER in entry at POS."
473 (let ((end (save-excursion (org-end-of-subtree t t
)))
475 (if (re-search-forward (concat "^[ \t]*:" drawer
":[ \t]*\n")
478 (goto-char (match-end 0))
479 (delete-region (point)
481 (and (re-search-forward "^[ \t]*:END:" nil t
)
482 (match-beginning 0)))))
483 (outline-next-heading)
484 (insert " :" drawer
":\n :END:\n")
485 (beginning-of-line 0))
486 (insert (pp-to-string status
)))))
488 (defun org-feed-add-items (pos entries
)
489 "Add the formatted items to the headline as POS."
493 (unless (looking-at org-complex-heading-regexp
)
494 (error "Wrong position"))
495 (setq level
(org-get-valid-level (length (match-string 1)) 1))
496 (org-end-of-subtree t t
)
497 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
498 (beginning-of-line 2)
500 (while (setq entry
(pop entries
))
501 (org-paste-subtree level entry
'yank
))
502 (org-mark-ring-push pos
))))
504 (defun org-feed-format-entry (entry template formatter
)
505 "Format ENTRY so that it can be inserted into an Org file.
506 ENTRY is a property list. This function adds a `:formatted-for-org' property
507 and returns the full property list.
508 If that property is already present, nothing changes."
510 (funcall formatter entry
)
511 (let (dlines fmt tmp indent time name
512 v-h v-t v-T v-u v-U v-a
)
513 (setq dlines
(org-split-string (or (plist-get entry
:description
) "???")
515 v-h
(or (plist-get entry
:title
) (car dlines
) "???")
516 time
(or (if (plist-get entry
:pubDate
)
517 (org-read-date t t
(plist-get entry
:pubDate
)))
519 v-t
(format-time-string (org-time-stamp-format nil nil
) time
)
520 v-T
(format-time-string (org-time-stamp-format t nil
) time
)
521 v-u
(format-time-string (org-time-stamp-format nil t
) time
)
522 v-U
(format-time-string (org-time-stamp-format t t
) time
)
523 v-a
(if (setq tmp
(or (and (plist-get entry
:guid-permalink
)
524 (plist-get entry
:guid
))
525 (plist-get entry
:link
)))
526 (concat "[[" tmp
"]]\n")
530 (goto-char (point-min))
531 (while (re-search-forward "%\\([a-zA-Z]+\\)" nil t
)
532 (setq name
(match-string 1))
534 ((member name
'("h" "t" "T" "u" "U" "a"))
535 (replace-match (symbol-value (intern (concat "v-" name
))) t t
))
536 ((setq tmp
(plist-get entry
(intern (concat ":" name
))))
539 (beginning-of-line 1)
540 (when (looking-at (concat "^\\([ \t]*\\)%" name
"[ \t]*$"))
541 (setq tmp
(org-feed-make-indented-block
542 tmp
(org-get-indentation))))))
543 (replace-match tmp t t
))))
544 (decode-coding-string
545 (buffer-string) (detect-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) t
))))))
547 (defun org-feed-make-indented-block (s n
)
548 "Add indentation of N spaces to a multiline string S."
549 (if (not (string-match "\n" s
))
552 (org-split-string s
"\n")
553 (concat "\n" (make-string n ?\
)))))
555 (defun org-feed-skip-http-headers (buffer)
556 "Remove HTTP headers from BUFFER, and return it.
557 Assumes headers are indeed present!"
558 (with-current-buffer buffer
560 (goto-char (point-min))
561 (search-forward "\n\n")
562 (delete-region (point-min) (point))
565 (defun org-feed-get-feed (url)
566 "Get the RSS feed file at URL and return the buffer."
568 ((eq org-feed-retrieve-method
'url-retrieve-synchronously
)
569 (org-feed-skip-http-headers (url-retrieve-synchronously url
)))
570 ((eq org-feed-retrieve-method
'curl
)
571 (ignore-errors (kill-buffer org-feed-buffer
))
572 (call-process "curl" nil org-feed-buffer nil
"--silent" url
)
574 ((eq org-feed-retrieve-method
'wget
)
575 (ignore-errors (kill-buffer org-feed-buffer
))
576 (call-process "wget" nil org-feed-buffer nil
"-q" "-O" "-" url
)
578 ((functionp org-feed-retrieve-method
)
579 (funcall org-feed-retrieve-method url
))))
581 (defun org-feed-parse-rss-feed (buffer)
582 "Parse BUFFER for RSS feed entries.
583 Returns a list of entries, with each entry a property list,
584 containing the properties `:guid' and `:item-full-text'."
585 (let ((case-fold-search t
)
586 entries beg end item guid entry
)
587 (with-current-buffer buffer
589 (goto-char (point-min))
590 (while (re-search-forward "<item\\>.*?>" nil t
)
592 end
(and (re-search-forward "</item>" nil t
)
593 (match-beginning 0)))
594 (setq item
(buffer-substring beg end
)
595 guid
(if (string-match "<guid\\>.*?>\\(.*?\\)</guid>" item
)
596 (org-match-string-no-properties 1 item
)))
597 (setq entry
(list :guid guid
:item-full-text item
))
601 (nreverse entries
))))
603 (defun org-feed-parse-rss-entry (entry)
604 "Parse the `:item-full-text' field for xml tags and create new properties."
607 (insert (plist-get entry
:item-full-text
))
608 (goto-char (point-min))
609 (while (re-search-forward "<\\([a-zA-Z]+\\>\\).*?>\\([^\000]*?\\)</\\1>"
611 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
612 (intern (concat ":" (match-string 1)))
613 (xml-substitute-special (match-string 2)))))
614 (goto-char (point-min))
615 (unless (re-search-forward "isPermaLink[ \t]*=[ \t]*\"false\"" nil t
)
616 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:guid-permalink t
))))
619 (defun org-feed-parse-atom-feed (buffer)
620 "Parse BUFFER for Atom feed entries.
621 Returns a list of entries, with each entry a property list,
622 containing the properties `:guid' and `:item-full-text'.
624 The `:item-full-text' property actually contains the sexp
625 formatted as a string, not the original XML data."
627 (with-current-buffer buffer
629 (let ((feed (car (xml-parse-region (point-min) (point-max)))))
633 :guid
(car (xml-node-children (car (xml-get-children entry
'id
))))
634 :item-full-text
(prin1-to-string entry
)))
635 (xml-get-children feed
'entry
)))))
637 (defun org-feed-parse-atom-entry (entry)
638 "Parse the `:item-full-text' as a sexp and create new properties."
639 (let ((xml (car (read-from-string (plist-get entry
:item-full-text
)))))
640 ;; Get first <link href='foo'/>.
641 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:link
643 (car (xml-get-children xml
'link
))
645 ;; Add <title/> as :title.
646 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:title
647 (xml-substitute-special
648 (car (xml-node-children
649 (car (xml-get-children xml
'title
)))))))
650 (let* ((content (car (xml-get-children xml
'content
)))
651 (type (xml-get-attribute-or-nil content
'type
)))
654 ((string= type
"text")
655 ;; We like plain text.
656 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:description
657 (xml-substitute-special
658 (car (xml-node-children content
))))))
659 ((string= type
"html")
660 ;; TODO: convert HTML to Org markup.
661 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:description
662 (xml-substitute-special
663 (car (xml-node-children content
))))))
664 ((string= type
"xhtml")
665 ;; TODO: convert XHTML to Org markup.
666 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:description
668 (xml-node-children content
)))))
670 (setq entry
(plist-put entry
:description
671 (format "Unknown '%s' content." type
)))))))
676 ;;; org-feed.el ends here