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David A. Desrosiers wrote:
| I've written a quick little perl script (runs as a CGI) that | takes the URL to a feed, and converts it to a proper HTML'ified | output, which you can point any Plucker distiller and, and convert | into a Plucker document. | | I may put it up for public consumption, but it would definately | take a pounding, so I'm going to wait until we get another pipe in | here first, before I do.
There's a couple of options for converting RSS to HTML. One is a perl script called (what else? :-) rss2html.pl that takes an RSS feed (local or remote file) and converts it into an HTML table. I've seen a couple of versions in different places, but the version I use has these lines in the header:
~ # by Jonathan Eisenzopf. v1.0 19990901 ~ # Copyright (c) 1999 Jupitermedia Corp. All Rights Reserved. ~ # See http://www.webreference.com/perl for more information
I run it under ActivePerl, so I know it works under Windows 95.
I also once saw a program called NewsGrabber that had a built-in check where it wouldn't try to retrieve a feed for 15 minutes since the last successful download. (I don't know if that is the same NewsGrabber seen here at SourceForge: >http://backendnews.sourceforge.net/<).
Finally, wasn't there something a while ago about common sites (like SlashDot) being "pre-plucked" and hosted somewhere on the Plucker site? If that's still going, that would eliminate the need to grab the RSS abbreviated version (unless they just want the headlines and don't care about the content).
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