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--- blog:use_rss_feeds_with_conky [2010-06-16 18:58] – brb
+++ blog:use_rss_feeds_with_conky [2010-06-23 08:35] (current) – brb
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-. Create a shell script in a folder like ~/bin:
+. Create a shell script in a folder like $HOME/bin: [[:blogfiles:rss_conky.sh]]
-<code bash>
-#!/bin/bash
-# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
-#
-# This script is designed to output story titles for most any RSS Feed.
-#
-# This script depends on curl.  Please ensure it is installed and in your $PATH
-# Gentoo: emerge -av net-misc/curl
-# Debian: apt-get install curl
-# Homepage: http://curl.haxx.se/
-#
-# Usage:
-# .conkyrc:	${execi [time] /path/to/script/conky-rss.sh URI LINES TITLENUM}
-#	URI = Location of feed, ex. http://www.gentoo.org/rdf/en/glsa-index.rdf
-#	LINES = How many titles to display (default 5)
-#	TITLENUM = How many times the title of the feed itself is specified, usually 1 or 2 (default 2)
-#
-# Usage Example
-#		${execi 300 /home/youruser/scripts/conky-rss.sh http://www.foxnews.com/xmlfeed/rss/0,4313,1,00.rss 4 2}
-#RSS Setup - Don't change unless you want these values hard-coded!
+Ref: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1358302
-uri=$1							#URI of RSS Feed
-lines=$2						#Number of headlines
-titlenum=$3						#Number of extra titles
-#Script start
-#Require a uri, as a minimum
-if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
-	echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
-	echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
-else
-	#Set defaults if none specified
-	if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=5 ; fi
-	if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi
-	#The actual work
-	curl -s --connect-timeout 30 $uri |\
-	sed -e 's/<\/title>/\n/g' |\
-	grep -o '<title>.*' |\
-	sed -e 's/<title>//' |\
-	head -n $(($lines + $titlenum)) |\
-	tail -n $(($lines))
-fi
-</code>
-Ref:
-  * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1358302
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