SFEED_JSON(1)

📦 version 2.4, in alpine 3.24, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ SFEED_JSON 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to sfeed_json — it's the glow-up your feed data has been waiting for. It takes your humble TSV feed data and turns it into JSON Feed energy. We're talking main character formatting, no cap. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sfeed_json [file ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: sfeed_json formats feed data (TSV) from sfeed(1) — reading from stdin or from each file you hand it — and writes it out to stdout as JSON Feed data. Slay. ✨

If you pass one or more file arguments, then the basename of the file gets used as the feed name in the output. Cute, right? 🎀

If you pass no file arguments and the data just comes from stdin, then the feed name is empty. Nothing. Void. The feed name said "not today." 💀

And here's a lil detail you need to know, bestie: if sfeed_json is reading from one or more file arguments, it will prefix the entry title with "[feed name] ". That's the literal feed name in square brackets followed by a space. Iconic little prefix, honestly. 👑

ngl, that prefix only shows up in the multi-file situation — if it's just stdin, there's no feed name to put in there. Fr fr.

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

The sfeed_json utility exits 0 on success — we love a clean exit, we love a happy ending 🫶 — and >0 if an error occurs. So if the number is bigger than zero, something went wrong, and that's your sign. 😭

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

This is the whole vibe, right here:

curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom.xml' | sfeed | sfeed_json

Like. Chain those pipes. Fetch it, sfeed it, JSON it. Ate. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Go read those too, bestie, they're part of the family. 💜

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

JSON Feed Version 1.1, https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/, Nov, 2022. Yes, it follows a real standard, we're not just making this up. ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>

That's the whole page, and that's a wrap, bestie. This one shipped in the Debian edition, dated August 1, 2023 — so if you're reading it, you're reading SFEED_JSON(1) from that very manual. Go format something gorgeous. 💖🌸🧚

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