Blog-Notifier is a project developed for the GoLang track on Hyperskill, a hands-on learning platform. It simplifies the management of favorite blog sites by providing email notifications whenever a new blog post is published on any blog in the user's watchlist. Users can easily add or remove blog sites from their watchlists.
The project is divided into five stages, each adding new functionalities and enhancing the user experience:
Involves creating a Command Line Interface (CLI) with the key functionality of parsing YAML files. This allows the Blog Notifier CLI to dynamically read and apply configurations for email notifications, server settings, and integration with messaging platforms like Telegram.
Enhances the Blog Notifier CLI to create a watchlist for favorite blogs and store that list in a SQLite database, enabling easier management and persistence of the watchlist.
Introduces a CLI sub-command to crawl a website recursively to a specified depth, collecting links and presenting them in a user-friendly manner.
Implements functionality to monitor specific blog sites for new content updates. Users can manage their list of blogs, check for new posts, and update their watchlist as needed.
Introduces email notification functionality, sending notifications to users for new blog posts discovered on sites in their watchlist.
Working on this project offers valuable opportunities to master diverse skills in GoLang, including:
- Parsing YAML files
- Website crawling
- Sending emails
- Implementing concurrency
- Executing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations
Blog-Notifier is currently in the Beta stage, and your feedback is invaluable to us. We would highly appreciate it if you could check out the project here and share your thoughts.
Contributions are also highly appreciated! If you would like to contribute to the project, please feel free to submit any suggestions or pull requests to help improve this project.