Project Description* Downloads RSS Feeds to your hard drive
* Downloads images
* Designed to run on a daily basis (gets only new posts since last download)
* Supports RSS and Atom
* Creates a summary page with abstracts for each post
* Can download full content from associated websites if RSS feed only contains an abstract
* Can extract content (strip header and footer) of associated websites using regular expressions
* Writes per-feed customizable HTML via custom CSS ID tags
* Generates a manifest.xml file for the IRex Iliad
How To UseFor a description of why this was created and how to use it see
Lee Richardson's Blog Entry about it.
Screenshots Main Configuration ScreenThe main screen below allows adding multiple RSS or Atom feeds.
Feed SettingsThe Washington Post feed below is configured to download the main content from the washingtonpost.com site and extract the content via regular expression start and end markers.
Index PageA generated index page shows abstracts for articles and provides links to the downloaded content.