inspire_hep_rss feed

This simple rust program queries the inspireHEP REST API and provides a RSS feed under e.g. http://127.0.0.1:3000/?sort=mostrecent&size=10&q=a%20Alexander.Neuwirth.1 following the options of the API https://github.com/inspirehep/rest-api-doc.

When adding the RSS feed to e.g. Thunderbird, please keep the update frequency low, like 1 update per day.

Below image shows the feed in Thunderbird.

Thus, it serves as a simple way to keep track of new publications of a given author. Practically it is a subscribe to author feature, which is currently not available on inspireHEP.

Usage

cargo run

starts the server on http://127.0.0.1:3000/ allowing only access from localhost.

cargo build --release

produces a binary in ./target/release/inspire_hep_rss which can be run on a server.

Configuration

cp ./target/release/inspire_hep_rss ~/.local/bin/
crontab -e

And add the following line to the crontab file to start the server on boot/user login:

@reboot ~/.local/bin/inspire_hep_rss

For more options (i.e. modifying the port, etc.) see the help:

inspire_hep_rss --help