babble - Simplistic Babble frontend
babble [options] [configfile]
The babble script is a simple wrapper around the core functionality of Babble. It can read a config file, which defines an aggregation and a set of output templates. Using this information, the script will generate static output.
Enable debugging output, slightly more verbose than --verbose.
Display a help message and exit.
Enable verbose mode, printing the current state of processing.
Print version information and exit.
The configuration file syntax is pretty easy and straightforward. There are a few special sections, and so-called feed sections. The first and most important section is Babble, which describes the current babble's basic properties. The script recognises the output_dir and themes variables under this section. All other variables will be used as parameters in the created Babble object.
Then, there are the so-called theme descriptor sections. They all begin with a theme: prefix, and the rest is one of the items in the Babble section's themes variable. That is, if the configration file says something like this:
[Babble] themes = html rss20
Then the two recognised theme descriptor sections are theme:html and theme:rss20. Each of these sections can contain a theme variable (defaults to the name of the theme, ie html and rss20 in our example), which specifies the theme to use; formats, which selects the formats to use (some themes provide multiple output formats); and output, the name of the output file.
[Babble] themes = html rss20 output_dir = output cache_db = feed_cache.db [theme:html] theme = planet_gray output = index.html [theme:rss20] theme = XML output = rss20.xml
Gergely Nagy, algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org
Bugs should be reported at http://bugs.bonehunter.rulez.org/babble.
Babble, babble-cache
To install Babble, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Babble
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Babble
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.