I've had problems with RSS feeds not updating correctly in Safari. So, I started looking for a way to manually refresh the feeds which, in turn, led to experimenting with the pubsub command (in the Terminal application).
To use the pubsub command, first launch the Terminal application.
To list all RSS feed clients type:
pubsub list clients
You'll get results like this:
To list all RSS feeds for all clients type:
pubsub list
To list RSS feeds for a particular client type:
pubsub --client com.apple.Safari list
Either way, the pubsub list command returns the following RSS feed information:
To refresh a particular feed type:
pubsub refresh http://rss.feed.url
For more pubsub command information type:
man pubsub
Using this information I wrote a quick AppleScript to refresh all of my Safari RSS feeds. Here it is:
I then changed Safari's RSS Preferences to 'Check for updates: Every day.' Now I can manually (force) refresh my feeds whenever I want. If you set Safari to 'Check for updates: Never' it won't show you the unread RSS counts.
I don't have any RSS feeds in the Mail application, but you can easily modify the AppleScript to update the RSS feeds of a different client or all clients.
[crarko adds: I mostly tested this one. The AppleScript compiles and runs and the pubsub command does what the hint says. It doesn't appear to work with NetNewsWire which is the application I use for RSS feeds.]
To use the pubsub command, first launch the Terminal application.
To list all RSS feed clients type:
pubsub list clients
You'll get results like this:
#Feeds Signature 9 com.apple.Safari 0 com.apple.mail
pubsub list
To list RSS feeds for a particular client type:
pubsub --client com.apple.Safari list
Either way, the pubsub list command returns the following RSS feed information:
Title -Name URL -URL Interval -Refresh /Expiry times
pubsub refresh http://rss.feed.url
For more pubsub command information type:
man pubsub
Using this information I wrote a quick AppleScript to refresh all of my Safari RSS feeds. Here it is:
--GET ALL RSS FEED URLS
set theURLs to paragraphs of ¬
(do shell script "pubsub --client com.apple.Safari list|awk -F'" & tab & "' '{print $3}'|grep http:")
--UPDATE THE RSS FEEDS ONE BY ONE
repeat with aURL in theURLs
do shell script "pubsub refresh " & quoted form of aURL
end repeat
I don't have any RSS feeds in the Mail application, but you can easily modify the AppleScript to update the RSS feeds of a different client or all clients.
[crarko adds: I mostly tested this one. The AppleScript compiles and runs and the pubsub command does what the hint says. It doesn't appear to work with NetNewsWire which is the application I use for RSS feeds.]
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