Archive a local copy of online starred posts collected by Feedbin. Solves the problem of web content going offline. The local copy can also be used for local searching and processing.
The archiver processes a starred.json as downloaded from Feedbin.
- Browse to https://feedbin.com
- Login
- From the Settings Menu, choose Import/Export
- Click Starred Articles Export
This will trigger the creation of the export file. After a few minutes an email with a download link will be sent to you. Download the referenced file to your machine.
You should end up with a file name starred.json
The easiest way to run the archiver is to use the Docker image.
$ docker run --rm -ti -v $PWD/archive-starred:/data/archive -v $PWD/starred.json:/data/source.json -u `id -u` --group-add `id -g` jonesd/feedbin-archive node lib/feedbin-archiver -v /data/archive /data/source.json
Where archive-starred is a directory where the downloaded articles will be stored, and starred.json is the unzipped starred link from the feedbin email.
On linux you can define a bash function to make it easier to run:
$ feedbin-archive() { docker run --rm -ti -v $1:/data/archive -v $2:/data/source.json -u `id -u` --group-add `id -g` jonesd/feedbin-archive node lib/feedbin-archiver -v /data/archive /data/source.json; }
Then to run it:
$ feedbin-archive $PWD/archive-starred $PWD/starred.json
Download your Starred items for FeedBin, and unzip the result. Should have a Starred.json file.
Install NodeJS 6 or newer.
$ npm install
$ node lib/feedbin-archive archive-starred starred.json
$ node lib/feedbin-archive -h
Usage: lib/feedbin-archiver.js [options] <archive directory> <source.json>
Options:
-t, --template Article HTML output template [string]
-f, --force Download article eve if local copy exists [boolean]
-v, --verbose Verbose logging [boolean]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
--version Show version number [boolean]
Copyright 2017 David G Jones