RSS Reader

Hello,

I would like to find an RSS reader. I need one that reads a blog or news source and is triggered by a dialog button. The news feeds can be displayed via LLSay. Could someone please help me? I would appreciate any help with this or even any script at all so that I may get started on it? I ma lost as to how to begin such a script.

Thank you!

I think the only way to this is via a webservice. You need to get a rss2html library and build a simple web service to give you the parsed rss feed.

After that the only thing you have do do is say it. It should work perfectly.

I am currently working on the seond union web service but for a fee I could make it for you (maybe just a few bucks cause im pretty broke).

thats how my blog scanner works

lsl object gets a php page on my website
which is a rss reader with the template setup so lsl can read it

Hope its ok to say this here - but name your price. IM me in world. I wouldnt mind paying for a script full mod i could use. i can also host PHP on my server. Thank you.

As an idea... there are free RSS to Email software / services (in RL).

And there are Email-to-IM prims you can get for SL. (I have one for free, see: /327/3b/152421/1.html)

Put them together, you have a free SL RSS Reader?

-peekay

dude ill do it for free just for the experience. But im kind of busy. I guess it could be a good scritp for the LSL Repo.

I hearby license it under the BSD lisense.

Problem with the Email to Prim scripts is that the prim has to be rezzed there permanently correct?

Because your prim email is the prim UUID. That wont work for me because I would rather have the object "go out" and find the news articles. The object i have isnt going to be sitting there permanently so its UUID will change each time. I want it mobile, and rezzed anywhere i am and have the news articles show up.

Hope this makes sense?

Dude il do it. Do you just want it to be raw text. It might not be well formatted but it will work.

I have a HUD that let's you name up to 6 blogs in a notecard and pulls the titles of the last 4-5 posts, and can launch the page if you want. I have a only slightly crippled demo up working at Nonesuch Gadgets in Namhae and its up at SLX @ http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=144264

I'm working on a TeXML based RSS reader that currently does pretty much the same thing, but isn't a HUD and tosses the feed up onto a Quicktime prim. Hopefully, using my wife's ClickMap script, we'll be able to make the titles 'clickable'. I have a demo of that up in Namhae also, although not for sale and will just be a freebie when I'm a little happier with it.

if you have any open source scripts i would be glad to post tem.

What i was thinking of doing is making an object that you simply say /setrss and what the URL of the rss feed and it will get it send it to a server to process and then send it back. Simple yet sweet. Then everytime you touch it it tells you the rss. Also I can amke it so that every person can have a different feed.

I will keep a n eye out for the on HUD version. I would like it to be dialog / chat command based if possible.

nathan - for what its worth, on my hud, the post titles are reported in chat to the owner of the hud. i basically made it for myself so i could check to see if there were updates to a number of blogs that i found myself constantly alt+tabbing over to check on while in-world (hence the dumb name, kill alt+tab).

currently, the titles are limited to something like 40-45 characters, which was due to the limit on chat and http_response. i haven't looked at it since the last update, but i might be able to up that now, so glad that i caught this thread

this is sort of what i'm doing. my hud loads the urls of up to 6 feeds and assigns them to buttons. hit the button, httprequest fires off the url to a php script, processes the rss feed, grabbing the post titles, returns them and they get spit out via llOwnerSay. gets the job done while still remaining mobile.

unfortunately, i don't think that the way i'm doing it is very useful in regards to things like the linden blog where they update the same post over a number of days, as 'updated last' isn't usually part of the title.

i'll be posting php scripts at http://intolerable.org/sl/ as i'm happy enough with them. only have a php script that spits generates texml now though.

ive already open sourced it, but i just made some changes, since i couldnt find the rss reader i was using

on the php side of things i started with this basic how to script
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Easy-RSS-Integration.html

with some minor battle axe moding you end up with this
cheesefactory.us/lsl/hotblogs/rssread.txt

which outputs the top 4 headlines like this
cheesefactory.us/rssread.php

on the lsl side of things, this is just a slight mod of my hotblogs script to work with the new backoffice
cheesefactory.us/lsl/hotblogs/hotblogs_v2.lsl

have fun

ps you will notice funny charaters in this example, simple fact is, it doesnt fully support anything but rss 1, since the default for the blogs is rss2 (funky encoding) you get the funny charaters, theres a url to use rss1 on the blog site, but its 2:30 am and im not feeling like downloading and probing wordpress at this moment

ps ps i want to add that this is totally llDialog driven

Magpierss (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) is a whole lot better.

But good job making a custom solution for yourself.

You know what they say

(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000152.html)

I have read a few times that laziness is one of the most important qualities for a programmer. And that PEAR breeds laziness (in a good way)

I have quite a bit of experience in this area - check out the Zodiac Range at 7 Deadly Prims and the Gmail Notifier available at several locations throughout SL (see my profile in-world for details) - I'm happy to discuss projects with interested parties.