Subj : RSS Reader as a Door To : g00r00 From : Charles Pierson Date : Sun Jan 31 2021 05:20 pm On 31 Jan 2021, g00r00 said the following... g0> There are many ways you could do something like this. First like you g0> said you could potentially use an existing terminal-based RSS news g0> client. Some people do not like to do that just in case there are any g0> ways for a user to exit the program to a command shell or something. g0> That's true. although as I'm in a Termux session on my Android phone, I'm unsure what sort of mischief could ensue. g0> Alternatively you could use any sort of script that can get RSS and then g0> post them as a text file into a message base using MUTIL or as bulletins. That's something I'm looking at. Looking around I saw some Mystic add-ond that took like the top 3 articles from CNN or Fox and posted them. So I see an idea is there. g0> Or you could use Mystic Python and create your own RSS reader or just g0> use it to g0> g0> download and post data to a message base. Its only a couple of lines of g0> code to do this sort of stuff in Mystic Python. IE: g0> g0> import feedparser g0> g0> feed = feedparser.parse("https://finance.yahoo.coim/rss/"); g0> g0> for entry in feed.entries: g0> I hadn't considered that option. I have looked a little bit at the Mystic MPL. but I'm out of practice with writing code, so it's slow going. g0> I believe there are some projects I think that do this sort of thing g0> already for Mystic. They will offer up news articles to browse and so g0> on, but I am not g0> sure where to get them they're just things I've seen before. g0> The one's I saw I found with a Google search. I'll probably grab them just to see if I can figure out how they are doing what they do. New OS, New BBS software, and trying to customize when years out of programming practice is probably pushing myself a bit much, but it's somehow therapeutical with all of its frustration. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 .