Subj :  RSS Feeds
To   : 3LUPINE FURMEN
From : Bugz
Date : Sat Apr 18 2020 14:30:24

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

Yes.  Bug_ubuntu in the bot channel does this all the time.

It's just a SMOP.  (Small Matter Of Programming.)  <GRIN>

Basically, use mutil to load messages into the message base.

I have a silly python3 script that reads the RSS feed, mashes it up
and outputs what mutil needs.

Ok, I actually use feedparser, and it does 99% of the RSS work for me.

The other "challenge" is getting HTML into nice text output.
I accomplish that with a simple call to elinks:

text = check_output( ["elinks", "-dump", "0",
  "-dump-width", "72", "--no-references",
  "--no-numbering", "./rss_feed.html",
  universal_newlines=True, shell=False)

This takes html and makes it nice 72 column format.  It understands
(HTML) center, word wrap, tables, etc.
Elinks is a text based browser after all.  ;)

I went a little crazy with the mutil ini part, I use jinja2
(template) to generate it.

You're welcome to a copy of it.  I'd attach it here, but I'm not sure
how well that would work.

Take care,

bugz

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