Add the possibility to run Miniflux as a cronjob

cli/cli.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"miniflux.app/database"
 	"miniflux.app/locale"
 	"miniflux.app/logger"
+	feedHandler "miniflux.app/reader/handler"
 	"miniflux.app/storage"
 	"miniflux.app/ui/static"
 	"miniflux.app/version"
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ const (
 	flagConfigFileHelp      = "Load configuration file"
 	flagConfigDumpHelp      = "Print parsed configuration values"
 	flagHealthCheckHelp     = `Perform a health check on the given endpoint (the value "auto" try to guess the health check endpoint).`
+	flagCronjobHelp         = "Run Miniflux as a cronjob to refresh a batch of feeds and exit"
 )
 
 // Parse parses command line arguments.
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ func Parse() {
 		flagConfigFile      string
 		flagConfigDump      bool
 		flagHealthCheck     string
+		flagCronjob         bool
 	)
 
 	flag.BoolVar(&flagInfo, "info", false, flagInfoHelp)
@@ -61,6 +64,7 @@ func Parse() {
 	flag.StringVar(&flagConfigFile, "c", "", flagConfigFileHelp)
 	flag.BoolVar(&flagConfigDump, "config-dump", false, flagConfigDumpHelp)
 	flag.StringVar(&flagHealthCheck, "healthcheck", "", flagHealthCheckHelp)
+	flag.BoolVar(&flagCronjob, "cronjob", false, flagCronjobHelp)
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	cfg := config.NewParser()
@@ -187,5 +191,21 @@ func Parse() {
 		createAdmin(store)
 	}
 
+	if flagCronjob {
+		jobs, err := store.NewBatch(config.Opts.BatchSize())
+		if err != nil {
+			logger.Error("[Cronjob] %v", err)
+		}
+
+		logger.Info("[Cronjob]] Processing %d jobs", len(jobs))
+
+		for _, job := range jobs {
+			if err := feedHandler.RefreshFeed(store, job.UserID, job.FeedID); err != nil {
+				logger.Error("[Cronjob] Refreshing the feed #%d returned this error: %v", job.FeedID, err)
+			}
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
 	startDaemon(store)
 }

miniflux.1

@@ -6,13 +6,19 @@ miniflux \- Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fBminiflux\fR [-vic] [-create-admin] [-debug] [-flush-sessions] [-info] [-migrate]
-         [-reset-feed-errors] [-reset-password] [-version] [-config-file] [-config-dump]
+         [-reset-feed-errors] [-reset-password] [-version] [-config-file]
+         [-config-dump] [-cronjob] [-healthcheck]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 \fBminiflux\fR is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .PP
+.B \-cronjob
+.RS 4
+Run Miniflux as a cronjob to refresh a batch of feeds and exit\&.
+.RE
+.PP
 .B \-c
 .RS 4
 Load configuration file\&.

service/scheduler/scheduler.go

@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ func Serve(store *storage.Storage, pool *worker.Pool) {
 func feedScheduler(store *storage.Storage, pool *worker.Pool, frequency, batchSize int) {
 	for range time.Tick(time.Duration(frequency) * time.Minute) {
 		jobs, err := store.NewBatch(batchSize)
+		logger.Info("[Scheduler:Feed] Pushing %d jobs to the queue", len(jobs))
 		if err != nil {
 			logger.Error("[Scheduler:Feed] %v", err)
 		} else {
-			logger.Debug("[Scheduler:Feed] Pushing %d jobs", len(jobs))
 			pool.Push(jobs)
 		}
 	}