Not only is Chandler a client, it’s also a server!

By enabling Chandler’s built-in webserver (provided by Twisted), you can access a few useful included mini web applications called “servlets”. There are two ways to turn on the webserver: either pass the –webserver command line argument, or set the CHANDLERWEBSERVER environment variable to 1 (the number one) before launching Chandler. Once you have done either of those, point your web browser at http://localhost:1888/ where you will see a list of servlets: an RSS reader, a repository browsing utility, and a simple photo album.

To add RSS feeds to Chandler, you may add them through the UI via the File > New Item > New ZaoBao Channel menu, or create a file named inbound.txt in your profile directory and put a list of RSS URLs in there, one per line. Re-run Chandler and it will subscribe to those URLs.

The location of your profile directory depends on the platform:

Linux: ~/.chandler OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Open Source Applications Foundation/Chandler Windows: C:\Documents and Settings[Username]\Application Data\Open Source Applications Foundation\Chandler