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Hackernews Reader

Hackernews Reader helps you build an XML reader that ingests hackernews articles, converts them to json, divides them into records, and publishes each record to a topic. This guide uses the following connector:

  • http-source: to read periodically from a hackernews, parse the XML result into json records, and publish the result to a topic.

Prerequisites​

Step-by-Step​

  1. Create http-source configuration file
  2. Download smartmodules
  3. Start Connector
  4. Check Results

Create http-source configuration file​

Create an HTTP source connector configuration file called hackernews.yaml :

apiVersion: 0.1.0
meta:
  version: 0.2.5
  name: hackernews
  type: http-source
  topic: hackernews
http:
  method: GET
  endpoint: 'https://hnrss.org/newest'
  interval: 600s
transforms:
  - uses: infinyon-labs/rss-json@0.1.0
  - uses: infinyon/jolt@0.3.0
    with:
      spec:
      - operation: shift
        spec:
          items: ""
  - uses: infinyon-labs/array-map-json@0.1.0

Download startmodules​

Download the smartmodules used by the connectors to your cluster:

$ fluvio hub sm download infinyon/jolt@0.3.0
$ fluvio hub sm download infinyon-labs/rss-json@0.1.0
$ fluvio hub sm download infinyon-labs/array-map-json@0.1.0

Start Connector​

$ fluvio cloud connector create -c hackernews.yaml

Check Results​

Connector logs:

$ fluvio cloud connector log hackernews

Records produced:

$ fluvio consume hackernews -T 10

Reference​