vinibrl
Hi everyone!
I just published LiveRSS, a library to stream RSS feeds. Some of the features include:
- Automatically polling of RSS feeds with a GenServer process
- Configurable polling rate
- RSS feed parsing using pure Elixir with
feeder_ex
I’m planning to add callbacks but I’m not 100% sure on what’s the best approach for this using OTP.
Feel free to star it on GitHub. I’m quite new on building Elixir processes so I’m open to feedback here.
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derek-zhou
Not to nitpick, but when you say
poolingyou really meanpolling, right? It is ok to have typo in a post but it looks like this spelling problem is all over the source. It will become much harder to fix down the road.vinibrl
I actually spelled that wrong my whole life lol. Thanks for reporting. I’ll make sure to fix that.
derek-zhou
I’d also say polling potentially large amount of infrequent sources using one GenServer each with
Process.send_after/2is not the best way. Other than the resource issues, it will also make cancelling and early polling hard to implement. I would use one GenServer that trigger itself every minute and maintain a list of event sources by chronological order. If any polling is due, I can spawn off a process to do the actual work.