Emanuel Berg wrote: > How can I generate a rss.xml from a bunch of HTML files? > > Tho one would think this to be quite a simple tool of parsing > the HTML and outputting the RSS XML dialect, I can't find any > tool... > > tt-rss maybe, but when I install it it tries to setup a MySQL > database which fails.
That's a web-based RSS reader, not a generator. > I don't know why, but it seems too involved anyway, there > isn't a webpile2rss tool like this or something: > > $ webpile2rss *.html > rss.xml # sweet There isn't one packaged in Debian, but there are libraries packaged which would allow you to build one. You might be happy with a static site generator, which takes a directory full of documents and arranges them into a website, usually including an RSS or ATOM feed. Packaged in Debian: hugo, jekyll, lektor, nanoc, staticsite, pelican -dsr-