Kotaku UK RSS (for fun)

So Kotaku UK does not have an RSS feed right now. And as I'm still teaching myself Go, I figured it would be a fun small project to hack together a small scraper that serves up an RSS feed for my personal use.

Building/Running

go get github.com/kr/godep
godep go build
PORT=5000 ./kotaku-uk-rss

Deploying to Heroku

git clone git@github.com:jimeh/kotaku-uk-rss.git
cd kotaku-uk-rss
heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git
git push heroku master

Technical

When launched, the process does two things:

1. Starts a goroutine that will fetch a list of articles from the first 3 pages of kotaku.co.uk, and building and caching a RSS XML string from those articles. This is repeated every 60 seconds.
2. Starts a web-server on PORT number serving up cached RSS feed on /rss.

License

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                    Version 2, December 2004

 Copyright (C) 2014 Jim Myhrberg

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