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RSS feed

Kipper 2 offers a limited RSS feed capability.

Under "construction details" in the settings, you'll find a few controls. When "Make RSS" is turned on, Kipper will make the feed for you along with the pages, and will also automatically upload it for you when you click "upload" or "update".

This is not a sophisticated system; if you use this feature, you need to include eight digits at the beginning of your filename to indicate the date, formatted yyyymmdd. For example:

20090115.php
20090115a.php
20090115_Great_idea.php

These will all be read by Kipper as being posted on the 15th of January. The time will be extracted from the file itself. Also be sure to fill in some of the other construction details: the website location, author's name, etc. The feed uses this information.

In the next two fields, you can indicate how many items you wish to be included in the feed, and the precise filename (including the extension) that you prefer.

The file will be written to the output folder, along with the pages.

Sample output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Carsblog</title>
    <link>http://www.bookelves.com/carsblog/</link>
    <description>Carson Fire's travelling blog show.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <atom:link href="http://www.bookelves.com/carsblog/rss.xml"
rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <docs>http://www.bookelves.com/carsblog/rss.xml</docs>
    <generator>Kipper</generator>
    <copyright>Copyright 2009, Carson Fire</copyright>
    <webMaster>carsonfire@gmail.com (Carson Fire)</webMaster>
    <ttl>720</ttl>
    <item>
      <title>Coming...Kipper 2!</title>
      <link>http://www.bookelves.com/carsblog/
20090121kipper2.php</link>
      <category>art</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Earlier on I
was mumbling about mothballing Kipper, and creating a new
page-making thing called Görasidor, then I kept changing
the name.</p>

<p>Eh. I hate naming things.</p>

<p>Now, after loading it with a bunch of archive
options, the more sensible thing now seems to be to simply
christen it "Kipper 2", especially since it borrows from
the best of what I did right in my first webarchive
application.</p>

[...]

<p>And that appears to be just the beginning.</p>
]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:52:56 -0600</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bookelves.com/carsblog/
20090112.php</guid>
    </item>

</channel>
</rss>

A Kipper-generated RSS feed can be seen here.

The title of each item is extracted from Kipper's title tag:

<!-- title:This is a blog post -->

An archive using the feed should have "make headers" set to the "on" position. That way, Kipper will include your page title for you on the final page, but can keep the text clean in the RSS output.