pubsub(1) BSD General Commands Manual pubsub(1)NAMEpubsub — Utility for managing RSS/Atom subscriptions via the PubSub
framework
SYNOPSISpubsub [--client bundleID] subcommand [parameters]
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
--client Force tool to act as one specific client
ENVIRONMENT
The pubsub tool is a command-line utility for interacting with the PubSub
framework. It is intended for troubleshooting, as a simple way to see at
a glance all the feed subscriptions that the agent will be periodically
fetching, and to delete any left-over subscriptions (for example, of an
application that's been deleted.)
If the --client flag is given, the tool will act only on the PubSub
client with the given bundle ID. For example, pubsub list will list only
the feeds that client is subscribed to. Some subcommands, such as
subscribe, require a client to be specified.
The following subcommands are supported. Note that some have multi-word
names. If no subcommand is given, a short listing of their names will be
output.
list Lists all feeds (of all clients, or of the specific client if the
-client flag is given.) The title, URL and refresh interval of
each feed are shown. Note that a feed subscribed by multiple
clients will be listed once per client, and that each client may
specify a different refresh interval. However, the PubSub agent
will only fetch one copy of the feed, at the minimum interval. The
interval is listed in parentheses if it is inherited from the
client's default refresh interval. The interval is followed by a "
* " if the feed will be refreshed even when the client application
is not currently running. The interval is followed by a " * " if
file enclosures will automatically be downloaded.
list clients
Lists all registered clients by bundle ID, along with their number
of subscriptions.
list client bundleID
Lists only the feeds subscribed to by the given client.
unsubscribe URL
Unsubscribes from the feed with the given URL.
subscribe URL
Subscribes the client (which must be specified using --client ) to
the given feed.
list URL
Lists all entries currently stored for the given feed.
dump URL
Prints the raw XML of the feed, as it was last fetched from the
network.
list entry identifier
Lists the attributes of an individual entry, given its identifier
(a 40-char hex string).
dump entry identifier
Prints the XML of an entry, given its identifier (a 40-char hex
string).
refresh URL
Fetches the feed from the network immediately, and updates the
database if it has changed.
listen [timestamp]
Installs a PSClient delegate and listens for changes to subscribed
feeds and entries, printing messages when they occur. If a time‐
stamp is given, all changes that have occurred since that time
will first be printed. The timestamp is given as a number of sec‐
onds since the system "reference date", i.e. the same as the
result of -[NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate].
list downloads
Lists all enclosures currently being downloaded.
list enclosures
Lists all enclosures, and their current download status.
FILES
~/Library/PubSub/
Per-user PubSub configuration/data directory
EXAMPLESpubsub list
pubsub--client com.example.SurfNews subscribe
http://example.com/UninterestingFeed.xml
pubsub unsubscribe http://example.com/UninterestingFeed.xml
Mac OS X 10.5 February 1, 2007 Mac OS X 10.5
