EtherFeed v1.0.1
Recently I started to use Etherpad for anything where more than one person was involved because communicating with multiple people by Email is just plain AAAAAAAARRRRGH!
The problem with Etherpad is, that it doesn’t send any notification to it’s users when something has changed. You have to check the pad manually and probably someone will forget to do so and won’t be up to date anymore.
So I wrote a quick and dirty PHP script that produces an ATOM feed out of an Etherpad. Ladies & gentlemen, I present: EtherFeed!
It’s capable of generating feeds for mutliple Etherpads with one single installation and only requires a working instance of PHP 5.2.x with read/write permissions to its “storage” directory. No relational database is needed since everything is saved in plain timestamped HTML files. It uses the free FeedWriter class to generate the actual news feed.
The source code repository is hosted on Bitbucket where a zip package is also available for download.
A short documentation of how to install and configure EtherFeed can be found in the project wiki.
Feel free to use it, modify it, fork the project or whatever.
