Subj : Re: RSS Reader as a Door
To   : Charles Pierson
From : g00r00
Date : Sun Jan 31 2021 03:28 pm

 CP> Or, barring that, I need a much better understanding of the autoposting
 CP> of Ttext files, where I could get a way to export each entry in the RSS
 CP> feed to a message on the BBS. Each particular feed being it's own
 CP> message area.

There are many ways you could do something like this.  First like you said you could potentially use an existing terminal-based RSS news client.  Some people do not like to do that just in case there are any ways for a user to exit the program to a command shell or something.

Alternatively you could use any sort of script that can get RSS and then post them as a text file into a message base using MUTIL or as bulletins.

Or you could use Mystic Python and create your own RSS reader or just use it to download and post data to a message base.  Its only a couple of lines of code to do this sort of stuff in Mystic Python. IE:

import feedparser

feed = feedparser.parse("https://finance.yahoo.coim/rss/");

for entry in feed.entries:
   <do stuff with the articles>

I believe there are some projects I think that do this sort of thing already for Mystic.  They will offer up news articles to browse and so on, but I am not sure where to get them they're just things I've seen before.

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