Hoi !

On 25 aug, 20:36, nevets1219 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to create an aggregator that would retrieve on a set
> interval RSS feeds from a list of feeds and optionally filter/alter/
> categorize/etc the feeds retrieved, let's call this the "big list".
> Then I would like to retrieve the "big list" to read in Thunderbird
> (or some other application of choice).
>
> I want to do it this way since Thunderbird may not always be on (my
> computer will not always be on) and I think RSS retrieves latest
> entries which may exclude older entries that you haven't seen.
>
> I believe an aggregator is quite doable with Google AppEngine, please
> correct me if I'm wrong. However, I'm not quite sure how to approach
> the problem of defining what's new. I'm guessing the client retrieves
> and based on what it already has marks entries as new but how would I
> know in my aggregator what has been retrieved and what hasn't (without
> a manual process)?

I made a bot that does feed fetching and forwards new entries to
xmpp,web and wave based on the "updated" field of the feed. This way
you only need to maintain a timestamp of the last viewed entry of the
feed so that anything newer gets forwarded, anything older gets
dropped.

See http://jsonbot.appspot.com for a running instance of the bot, it's
this in alpha though so i'm sure things ain't working yet as they
should ;]

Grtx,

Bart

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