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slashtags-widget-news-feed

A slashtags widget with recent news.

Usage

Feed

Copy config/config.example.json to config/config.json then edit the relay address.

cp config/config.example.json config/config.json

Start the feed writer

npm start

It will generate a keyPair and persist that in config/config.json for future sessions.

It should print: Running Bitcoin news feed: slashfeed:<id>/Bitcoin Headlines?relay=<relay-address>

Reader

To read The news feed use the Reader helper class.

const { Feed, Reader } = require('slashtags-widget-news-feed')

(async () => {
  const client = new Client({ storage: './path/to/feed/storage', relay: 'https://web-relay.example.com' })
  const feed = new Feed(client, config, { icon })

  await feed.ready() 

  const client = new Client({ storage: './path/to/reader/storage'})

  const readerClient = new Client({ storage: tmpdir() })
  const reader = new Reader(readerClient, feed.url)

  const latestArticle = await reader.getLatestArticle()
  // {
  //   title: 'Article Title',
  //   link: 'https://example.com/article-x',
  //   published: 1692255625871,
  //   publisher: { title: 'Feed Bar', link: 'bar.example.com' }
  // }
})