Note that this documentation is for the old 5.2 release.
For the newest documentation, please see the current release documentation.

RSS Harvests

Owned by Colin Samuel Rosenthal
Nov 10, 2016

From NAS 5.2 onwards, it is possible to harvest RSS feeds using the Crawler RSS (https://github.com/Landsbokasafn/crawlrss) module developed by Kristinn Sigurðsson at the National Library of Iceland. In order to use the module it is necessary to configure the feeds to be harvested in a special crawler-bean template. At present it is not possible to define the seeds of an RSS harvest directly through the NAS GUI. A sample template suitable for use with NAS can be downloaded from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netarchivesuite/crawlrss/master/src/main/conf/jobs/CrawlRSS-Sample-Profile/netarkivet-crawlrss.dr.dk.cxml .

The template can be customised by replacing this section

            <list>
                <bean class="is.landsbokasafn.crawler.rss.RssFeed">
                    <property name="uri" value="http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/indland" />  <!--RSS url -->
                    <property name="impliedPages">
                        <list>
                            <value>https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/</value>
                            <value>http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/allenyheder/indland</value> <!-- Landing Page -->
                        </list>
                    </property>
                </bean>
                <bean class="is.landsbokasafn.crawler.rss.RssFeed">
                    <property name="uri" value="http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/udland" />  <!--RSS url -->
                    <property name="impliedPages">
                        <list>
                            <value>http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/allenyheder/udland</value>
                        </list>
                    </property>
                </bean>
                <bean class="is.landsbokasafn.crawler.rss.RssFeed">
                    <property name="uri" value="http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/penge" /> <!--RSS url -->
                    <property name="impliedPages">
                        <list>
                            <value>http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/allenyheder/penge</value>
                        </list>
                    </property>
                </bean>
            </list>

with your own list of feeds to be harvested. Associated with each rss-feed uri is a list of implied pages. These can be ordinary html landing pages associated with the feed. By harvesting these together with the rss-feed one can ensure a consistent browsing experience in the harvested data.

To use the rss-template one needs to define, for any domain, a configuration with an empty seed list. Strictly speaking, seed lists cannot be completely empty, but a seed list can consist solely of a single comment character "#". Then simple define a harvest configuration using the crawlrss template together with the empty seed list.