[TriLUG] Roll your own RSS reader

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

I wrote a simple script to do some screen scraps of various sites and then post those to local news groups and email lists. In general this kind of app is a piece of cake to write. I'm sure some news sites must already support this.

I think WRAL has one that works via subscription (a certain monthly fee). I would be easy to setup you own scrap/send app to do the same for you - though getting the format setup properly for sms might take a lot of tweaking.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 12:56 pm
Subject: [TriLUG] Roll your own RSS reader

> Hi List,
>   I've just recently upgraded my cellular service to one that 
> actually 
> functions nearly fully in all the areas I typically inhabit 
> (yay!), so 
> now I'm looking to make the most of my newfound (or rather, newly 
> recovered) connectivity.  Namely, I'd like to be able to subscribe 
> to an 
> RSS feed and have its updates sent to me via SMS.
> 
> This ought to be simple.  All I need is a reader that can send the 
> updates to an e-mail address.  I just don't know beans about RSS.
> 
> There's a web site, I forget the address, that offers this sort of 
> thing 
> as a paid-for service (something about SMS network fees), but I 
> don't 
> want to pay for something I can rig for free.
> 
> So how difficult would it be to build something like this?  It 
> seems to 
> me that it's really, in principle, little more than a repeater.  
> "Listen 
> to this, and when something happens, send it here."  Are there 
> already 
> projects to do just that?  Anyone working on just such a thing?
> 
> I know this is a particularly open-ended question, and so I 
> welcome all 
> sorts of comments, and I thank you all for your input.
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Brian
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