We need to do two things on the API side of the project. The first one is related to the API we expose; we need to add methods to insert, retrieve, and delete subscriptions. Another big task we have to do is related to the articles we need to fetch from the RSS feeds. We will create a CLI script to fetch and store them on the database. As the first big task is similar to what we did in the previous chapters, we will revise it quickly and focus on the CLI script.
The requirement on the API side will be adding a new endpoint to manage the feed subscriptions of a user. Of course, we will need a couple of tables and a few configurations on the database to store the information. For the CLI script, we need to add a new CLI route on the configuration, and then create the script that will fetch the data and store it on the database, outputting the information on the console as a feedback to the user.
The new endpoint will be /api/feeds/:username[/:id]. Now, let's see how...