History4feed data collection not continuing after restart

Hi,

I was recently playing around a bit with history4feed in the context of preparation of a research project.

Nice tool! Was working pretty well after simply building and starting the docker container composition.

However, I see the problem that after restarting the system (e.g. docker compose stop; docker compose up) the containers start again but no further posts are logged to the database. I assume there is a little trick I don’t see.

Maybe you have a quick idea where to look for the problem?

Best regards
Stephan

Hey @StephanB

When you say:

However, I see the problem that after restarting the system (e.g. docker compose stop; docker compose up) the containers start again but no further posts are logged to the database. I assume there is a little trick I don’t see.

Can you explain in a bit more detail?

H4F does not automatically poll for new posts. You need to manually request new posts using feed/<ID>/fetch

Thanks a lot for your quick reply!

This basically already answers my misunderstanding. As the system did initially start to fetch posts automatically I assumed this would be the normal behaviour, especially after restart.

Requesting new posts manually solved my issue!

Kind regards
Stephan