patreon-2-rss

Scrapes patreon.com creators using puppeteer and converts posts into a RSS feed which can be imported into readers such as RSS Guard.

Requirements

• Node.js

Usage

1. npm install

2. node scraper creator [creator] [output-type=xml,stdout]

The script will scrape the creators /posts page and dump the information into a creator.xml file in RSS 2.0 format.

creator will be replaced by the command line argument passed to the script. If multiple arguments were specified, multiple files will be created.

RSS Guard Usage

I recommend symlinking the folder to which you cloned this repo (e.g. patreon-2-rss) to a scripts folder in the RSS Guard %data% directory, which you will have to create yourself.

There are two ways of using the script for RSS Guard:

1. Generate and import .xml files *1
   • On Windows:
     1. node '%data%\scripts\patreon-2-rss\scraper' creator [creator] (Task scheduler)
     2. powershell "cat '%data%\scripts\patreon-2-rss\creator.xml'" (RSS Guard)
        
        
2. Use script output *2
   • On Windows: node "%data%\scripts\patreon-2-rss\scraper" creator --output-type=stdout (RSS Guard)

*1 Do this if you have MANY creators you want to check on. Specify which creator you want to import, by replacing creator in creator.xml according to the file the script generated. Use a Task scheduler of your choice, e.g. Windows Task Scheduler (Windows), Cron (Linux), etc.

*2 Do this if you have a FEW creators you want to check on. I do not recommend this if you have lots of creators you want to check on, since the script is creating a browser instance for each feed/creator and it may take a long time for the whole process to finish.