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brother
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 156
Location: Belgium
  
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Since i couldn't find a decent RSS feed with the news on the Mess.be frontpage, i built my own. I prepared the file to be RSS 0.91 compatible, as this is supported by most RSS reader libraries and code examples to parse it.
It's part of my project to bring as many intresting RSS feeds inside my bot (ScriptersMOO) and update the users regularly with intresting articles or funny announcements.
Anyhow, here is the url:
http://brother.scripters.be/rss/mess.rss
To parse this in Perl, i suggest using either a generic XML parser or a more specific RSS handling library. Of course, the odd regexp will do aswell with a little more work.
I hope you enjoy it.
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..::BIGmouth( )::..
God Like
Joined: 05 Feb 2004
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A little slow (You should add cache). but nice work. 
oh btw. http://www.mess.be/news.xml |
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brother
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 156
Location: Belgium
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Have looked for ages for an RSS link on that site, well it is a 'mess'.
Also noticed the their RSS has shortened descriptions and only the last 5 (?) topics.
My RSS convertor does use caching though, but it is based on the 'last-modified' date their server responds with... I noticed though the mess.be server always seems to reply with the current time as 'last-modified', essentially trashing my cache and regetting it...
I'll just make a hardcoded 'refresh-rate'. Should be a breeze  |
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darkmonkey
The Merovingian
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Posts: 2557
Location: London, England
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Nice feed. You should have asked on here if there is one, or searched. It has been mentioned many time B)
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brother
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 156
Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Too late for that now...
Oh well, it's available. I'll leave the choice to you which feed you use... |
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zingysaturn
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Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 46
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Uber cool! I did find one of some blog a while back, but it stopped working! |
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