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Hi all.
I am in the process of writing an RSS aggregator for a professor and he is not willing to install modules himself or permit anyone else to do so ( annoying indeed ). Therefore, I am relegated to using regexes. In the process of testing the tool on thraxil.org, I noticed there is no output displayed. My code ( thus far ):
The rss source I am trying to parse can be seen at http://thraxil.org/rss.
I need to capture the title, link, and description data then display each group of three with the <link> info as a hyperlink to the article / node.
I feel as though I am quite close but a little assistance would be quite beneficial.
Thanks,
-Katie.
I am in the process of writing an RSS aggregator for a professor and he is not willing to install modules himself or permit anyone else to do so ( annoying indeed ). Therefore, I am relegated to using regexes. In the process of testing the tool on thraxil.org, I noticed there is no output displayed. My code ( thus far ):
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; use CGI qw( :standard ); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print start_html; my $data = get("http://thraxil.org/rss"); my $scalar; open (F, ">test.txt") or die $!; print F $data; close F; open( F2, "<test.txt" ) or die "Error : $!\n"; while(<F2>) { if ( /<title>\s*(.*?)\s*<\/title><link>(.*?)<\/link>/m ) { print "<a href=$2>$1</a><br><br>"; } } close F2; print end_html();
The rss source I am trying to parse can be seen at http://thraxil.org/rss.
I need to capture the title, link, and description data then display each group of three with the <link> info as a hyperlink to the article / node.
I feel as though I am quite close but a little assistance would be quite beneficial.
Thanks,
-Katie.
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Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Dec 06, 2003 at 02:43 UTC | |
by duff (Parson) on Dec 06, 2003 at 03:40 UTC | |
Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by thraxil (Prior) on Dec 06, 2003 at 02:50 UTC | |
by Koschei (Monk) on Dec 06, 2003 at 04:53 UTC | |
Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Dec 06, 2003 at 10:45 UTC | |
Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by thraxil (Prior) on Dec 06, 2003 at 02:33 UTC | |
Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Dec 06, 2003 at 03:33 UTC | |
Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by mtve (Deacon) on Dec 07, 2003 at 08:19 UTC | |
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