You can use rss2html:

  http://nopcode.org/blog/rss2html.html

use '-o txt' or '-o tab' for parsing what you need (title), etc... i you think 
that
another output format is required tell me and i'll consider it.

for help:

http://news.nopcode.org/miau/pvc.cgi?prj=rss2html&leaf=d92ee18f/[EMAIL 
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028     printf( "Usage: %s [options] [url]    # version %s\n"
029                     " -c [file]      :: Use 'file' instead of 
~/.rss2html.\n"
030                     " -d             :: Show the description text.\n"
031                     " -D [descr]     :: Set the description string.\n"
032                     " -e [wrd,wrd]   :: Grep comma separated words.\n"
033                     " -h             :: Shows help.\n"
034                     " -i             :: Ignore images.\n"
035                     " -j             :: Join bodies.\n"
036                     " -k             :: Keep temporally files.\n"
037                     " -T [template]  :: use this template for html 
output.\n"
038                     " -n [number]    :: Number of posts to read from each 
RSS.\n"
039                     " -N [number]    :: Total number of posts to be 
showed.\n"
040                     " -r [n_words]   :: Resume post body into n words.\n"
041                     " -l [lang]      :: Set language.\n"
042                     " -L [directory] :: Translate remote links to local 
directories.\n"
043                     " -o [format]    :: Select 
[txt|tml|html|tab|rss|mxml|xml2doc|url].\n"
044                     " -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]  :: Create a planet. (order by 
date, not by blog).\n"
045                     " -p [picture]   :: Set the picture.\n"
046                     " -t [tmpdir]    :: Set temporally directory.\n", 
prg,VERSION);

pull it with pvc:

$ mkdir rss2html && pvc init rsync://news.nopcode.org:8181/pvcroot/rss2html

--pancake

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:24:18PM -0400, Mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would love to see some "tricks" that turn dzen into an rss reader:
> Watch a particular feed and whenever a new item appears have dzen
> provide notification.  Any ideas?
> 
> - Mike
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:49:13PM +0200, Robert Manea wrote:
> > P.S.: If you are using dzen for any interesting task and would like to
> >       share your script be sure to send me a mail with a short
> >       description and the script in order to populate dzen's script
> >       archive http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzenscriptarchive
> > 
> 

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