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│ ├─> rssr personal setup ├─rssr ├─added .onion service ├─site optimisations ├─bfpprint ├─black metal songs of choice ├─tabler already proving its worth ├─tabler ├─new rss feed ├─learning c: or how I stopped using c++ ├─mail server setup at mail.jimscorner.co.uk! └─first post
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rssr personal setup

I wrote about my rssr program in the last post and wanted to show my setup to give an idea on how I actually use it.

I have a directory on my computer called feeds/, and inside is a script called update-feeds.sh along with a config file called tiktok_officialvarg.conf.

update-feeds.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (c) 2025 Jim
# /

out="tiktok_officialvarg"
/home/jamie/code/rssr/rssr -e -c ${out}.conf ${out}.xml && 
rsync ${out}.xml jimscorner:/var/www/jimscorner.co.uk/public/feeds/${out}.xml

tiktok_officialvarg.conf

[rss]
title 		= TikTok feed of @officialvarg
link  		= https://jimscorner.co.uk/feeds/tiktok_officialvarg.xml
description = An rssr generated rss feed for the TikTok user @officialvarg 

[TikTok]
secUid = MS4wLjABAAAAzXa4i_wZ8O3DdHEsw-sKLizL7VlFfiNvZ9IHI5_U94CB6JNedAdyJWKEd2bmODPM

For a basic overview, rssr runs with the -c option pointing to my tiktok_officialvarg.conf file and runs with the -e option, meaning rssr will not overwrite our feed if no new changes are detected and exits with an error code of 1.

If changes are found then it creates/overwrites a file called {out}.xml and then rsync’s the new file to my website server.

update-feeds.sh is called every hour through a crontab setup shown here.

55	*	*	*	*	cd /home/jamie/code/feeds && ./update-feeds.sh

As shown it’ll be very easy to add more feeds in future, but for now I only need the one.