Pillage-RSS is a project mainly written in Clojure, based on the Apache-2.0 license.
An RSS filter which allows you to strip uninteresting content from your feeds.
Pillage is an RSS filter. In short, you can use it to clean up or modify your RSS feeds so that they no longer include certain content, and maybe other neat things.
Here's an example (and actually the one which inspired this project): suppose you subscribe to an RSS feed (from Tumblr, say) which contains a bunch of cool images but is also being overrun by a lot of irritating banter between the self-centered author and their adoring, creepy fans. You just want the image posts, not the one-liners and "OMG gurl what kind of eyeliner do u use?" posts. Solution: add the feed to your Pillage account and set it up to exclude text-only items, then unsubscribe from the original feed in your feed reader and subscribe to the Pillaged version.
Pillage is written in Clojure using the Compojure web framework and Hiccup for markup generation. It runs on Google App Engine using the appengine-clj Clojure library.
Clojure because I'm currently learning (and loving) it, Compojure because it's pretty minimal (basically a wrapper around Ring with a nice routing syntax), appengine-clj for nice Clojure bindings to the App Engine Java API, and hiccup because I wanted to experiment with generating HTML entirely in code (which much is nicer in a homoiconic language like Clojure than, say, Java) and get away from ugly templates for a bit. We'll see how that shakes out...
Copyright 2010 Lyle Hanson
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