RSS Feeds User Guide

Overview

We have a crawling tool called RSS News Collector, which is integrated with KIM. Thus, you can manage RSS feeds to be crawled and populated to a running KIM server. However, it is not a part of the KIM distribution and runs as a separate application.

Download and install

We've been using the RSS News Collector only internally, so it is not publicly available for download. There are 2 options:

• build it from source
  • checkout https://svn.ontotext.com/svn/kim/trunk/artifacts/rss-feeder/
  • a zip package will be generated in ${project.checkout.dir}/target/rss-feeder-3.5-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
• download it from Hudson - http://hudson.ontotext.com/view/KIM/job/kim-distribution/ws/rss-feeder/target/rss-feeder-3.5-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip (User: onto-dev, Pass: tutmanik1)

After acquiring the zip file, just extract it somewhere. To start it navigate to the extracted folder and execute:

• bin/ncf.sh for Linux/Mac
• bin/ncf.bat for Windows

  The RSS News Collector does not implement availability tactics like ping - echo. It will try to connect to KIM only once, so you should start your KIM server before the RSS News Collector!

The RSS News Collector will run with default configuration - universal boilerplate removal algorithm and a list of popular news agencies' RSS feeds (~60).

Manage RSS Feeds from KIM

This tutorial supposes you already have a local KIM server running.

1. Navigate to the KIM UI - http://localhost:8080/KIM
2. Click on Manage, as shown in the picture below. The default credentials are user: admin, pass: admin.
   
3. Now click on Manage RSS feeds.
   
4. If your setup is correct you will see a page like this and you will be able to add/remove and search through currently configured feeds.
   
5. In case the RSS News Collector isn't connected to KIM the following page will be displayed