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My goal is to build a CLI tool called thicket in Python that maintains a Git repository within which Atom feeds can be persisted, including their contents.

     

       
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The configuration file specifies:

     

       
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- the location of a git store

     

       
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- a list of usernames and target Atom/RSS feed(s) and optional metadata about the username such as their email, homepage, icon and display name

     

       
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- a cache directory to store temporary results such as feed downloads and their last modification date that speed up operations across runs of the tool

     

       
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The Git data store should:

     

       
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- have a subdirectory per user

     

       
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- within that directory, an entry per Atom entry indexed by the Atom id for that entry. The id should be sanitised consistently to be a safe filename. RSS feed should be normalized to Atom before storing it.

     

       
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- within each entry file, the metadata of the Atom feed converted into a JSON format that preserves as much metadata as possible.

     

       
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- have a JSON file in the Git repository that indexes the users, their associated directories within the Git repository, and any other metadata about that user from the config file

     

       
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The CLI should be modern and use cool progress bars and any otfrom ecosystem libraries.

     

       
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The intention behind the Git repository is that it can be queried by other websites in order to build a webblog structure of comments that link to other blogs.