Welcome to the RSS River Plugin for Elasticsearch
In order to install the plugin, run:
bin/plugin -install fr.pilato.elasticsearch.river/rssriver/1.3.0
You need to install a version matching your Elasticsearch version:
Elasticsearch | RSS River Plugin | Docs |
---|---|---|
master | Build from source | See below |
es-1.x | Build from source | 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT |
es-1.4 | Build from source | 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT |
es-1.3 | 1.3.0 | 1.3.0 |
es-1.1 | 1.1.0 | 1.1.0 |
es-1.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 |
es-0.90 | 0.3.0 | 0.3.0 |
To build a SNAPSHOT
version, you need to build it with Maven:
mvn clean install
plugin --install rssriver \
--url file:target/releases/rssriver-X.X.X-SNAPSHOT.zip
Thanks to cloudbees for the build status :
We create first an index to store all the feed documents :
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/lemonde/' -d '{}'
We create the river with the following properties :
- Feed URL : http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/lemonde/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"feeds" : [ {
"name": "lemonde",
"url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml"
}
]
}
}'
This RSS feed follows RSS 2.0 specifications and provide a ttl entry. The update rate will be auto-adjusted following this value.
If you want to set your own refresh rate (if not provided) and force it (even if it's provided), use
update_rate
and ignore_ttl
options:
We create the river with the following properties :
- Feed URL: http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml
- Update Rate: every 15 minutes
- Ignore TTL : true
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/lemonde/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"feeds" : [ {
"name": "lemonde",
"url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml",
"update_rate": "15m",
"ignore_ttl": true
}
]
}
}'
If you need to get multiple feeds, you can add them :
Feed1
- URL : http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml
- Update Rate1 : every 15 minutes (will be modified by provided TTL)
Feed2
- URL : http://rss.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro/laune
- Update Rate2 : every 30 minutes
- Ignore TTL : true
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/actus/' -d '{}'
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/actus/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"feeds" : [ {
"name": "lemonde",
"url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml",
"update_rate": "15m"
}, {
"name": "lefigaro",
"url": "http://rss.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro/laune",
"update_rate": "30m",
"ignore_ttl": true
}
]
}
}'
By default, any encoded content provided in content:encoded
will be indexed under raw.TYPE
field, where TYPE
depends on encoded content type, for example html
.
You can disable this if you want to save some disk space for example, using raw
setting:
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/actus/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"raw" : false,
"feeds" : [ {
"url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml"
}
]
}
}'
If you don't define an explicit mapping before starting RSS river, one will be created by default:
{
"page" : {
"properties" : {
"feedname" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"author" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"description" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"link" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "no"
},
"source" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"publishedDate" : {
"type" : "date",
"format" : "dateOptionalTime",
"store" : "yes"
},
"location" : {
"type" : "geo_point"
},
"categories" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"enclosures" : {
"properties" : {
"url" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "no"
},
"type" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"length" : {
"type" : "long",
"index" : "no"
}
}
},
"medias" : {
"properties" : {
"type" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"reference" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "no"
},
"language" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "not_analyzed"
},
"title" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"description" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"duration" : {
"type" : "long",
"index" : "no"
},
"width" : {
"type" : "long",
"index" : "no"
},
"height" : {
"type" : "long",
"index" : "no"
}
}
},
"raw" : {
"properties" : {
"html" : {
"type" : "string",
"index" : "no"
}
}
}
}
}
}
If you want to define your own mapping, push it to elasticsearch before RSS river starts:
$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/lefigaro/' -d '{}'
$ curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/lefigaro/page/_mapping' -d '{
"page" : {
"properties" : {
"feedname" : {"type" : "string"},
"title" : {"type" : "string", "analyzer" : "french"},
"description" : {"type" : "string", "analyzer" : "french"},
"author" : {"type" : "string"},
"link" : {"type" : "string"}
}
}
}'
Then, your feed will use it when you create the river :
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/lefigaro/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"feeds" : [ {
"url": "http://rss.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro/laune"
}
]
}
}'
By default, documents are indexed every 25
feed documents or every 5
seconds in river name
index under a page
type.
You can change those settings when creating the river:
$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/lemonde/_meta' -d '{
"type": "rss",
"rss": {
"feeds" : [ {
"name": "lemonde",
"url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml"
}
]
},
"index": {
"index": "myindexname",
"type": "mycontent",
"bulk_size": 100,
"flush_interval": "30s"
}
}'
RSS river downloads RSS feed every update_rate
milliseconds and check if there is new messages.
At first, RSS river look at the <channel>
tag.
It reads the optional <pubDate>
tag and store it in Elasticsearch to compare it on next launch.
Then, for each <item>
tag, RSS river creates a new document with the following properties:
XML Path | ES Mapping |
---|---|
/title |
title |
/description |
description |
/content:encoded |
raw.html |
/author |
author |
/link |
link |
/category |
category |
/geo:lat /geo:long |
location |
/enclosures[@url] |
enclosures.url |
/enclosures[@type] |
enclosures.type |
/enclosures[@length] |
enclosures.length |
/media:content[@height] |
medias.height |
/media:content[@width] |
medias.width |
/media:content[@url] |
medias.reference |
/media:content[@type] |
medias.type |
/media:content[@duration] |
medias.duration |
/media:content[@lang] |
medias.language |
/media:description |
medias.description |
/media:title |
medias.title |
<content:encoded>
tag will be stored in raw
object. If html
content, it will be stored as raw.html
.
ID
is generated from description using the UUID generator. So, each message is indexed only once.
Read RSS 2.0 Specification for more details about RSS channels.
Many many things to do :
- As
<pubDate>
tag is optional, we have to check if RSS River is working in that case and parse each feed message - Support more RSS
<channel>
sub-elements, such as<category>
,<skipDays>
,<skipHours>
- Support more RSS
<item>
sub-elements, such as<pubDate>
- Support for multi-channel (one per language for instance)
- Use
<guid>
as the text to encode to generateID
This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.
Copyright 2011-2014 David Pilato
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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