feedread

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debian • linux

I wrote feedread, a little program to download my podcasts. I run it with a systemd user timer. This is kind of like a cron job.

I created a directory for it

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user/

and created a feedread.service file there

[Unit]
Description=Check RSS feeds for new podcasts

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/tim/rust/target/release/feedread --feeds=/home/tim/rust/feedread/feeds --download-history=/home/tim/rust/feedread/download_history
Type=oneshot

as well as a feedread.timer file

[Unit]
Description=Check RSS feeds for new podcasts

[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
Persistent=true
RandomizedDelaySec=1h

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Then I started the service

loginctl enable-linger tim
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable feedread.timer --now

I can check on the service with 

systemctl --user list-timers

or

systemctl --user status feedread

Now if there are any new podcasts, they'll be waiting for me when I wake up!