Subj : Re: RSS Feeds
To   : Lupine Furmen
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Apr 18 2020 11:48:00

-=> Lupine Furmen wrote to All <=-

 LF> Is there a way to import RSS feeds directly into a message base?

It can be done, but is difficult/messy.  The issue is that feeds 
generally come in HTML/XML format, and all that formatting garbage 
needs to be removed before the remaining text can be posted into a 
message base.  That's the trick - using whatever tools/utilities 
needed to strip that stuff out.  On Linux I've had some success 
using tools like sed/awk and bash scripts, but it takes a lot of 
effort (at least for me) to figure it out.

I'm currently working on this very thing to try and auto-post some 
articles from a hockey site into a FidoNet echo.  So far it's 
proving to be quite a challenge.



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