Feed Provider

The feed provider subscribes to RSS / Atom feeds.In the cloud, the feed provider uses the Superfeedr service which aims to deliver new items within 15 minutes. On premise the feed provider checks the feeds less often.

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Configuration

Blog Search

When used in the Superfeedr configuration, blog search can be configured with a special URL parameter. The URL is http://superfeedr.com/track?include={keyword} for example http://superfeedr.com/track?include=squirro. Beware of the costs when subscribing to busy feeds.

Superfeedr's track feature provides additional options, that can be looked up in the Superfeedr documentation.

Configuration Example

This is an example configuration for subscribing to the TechCrunch feed.

{
    "url": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/"
}

Using the Python SDK a subscription for this could be created with the following code snippet:

client = SquirroClient(None, None, cluster='https://next.squirro.net/')
client.authenticate(refresh_token='293d…a13b')
		client.new_subscription(project_id, object_id='default', provider='feed',
config={'url': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/'})

Item Format

No special keywords are added to items created by this provider.

Licensing

Using this provider on premise doesn't incur additional cost.

When used with Superfeedr, then each delivered item costs. This needs to be considered when adding busy feeds, especially search tracking feeds.