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socket rss help

#215846 10/10/09 02:19 PM

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beni87

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beni87

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I have a small problem, i got my socket script that reads from rss and then post the latest news, but it seems it only works on a few sites. Here's code:

Code:

alias bbc-rss {
  if ($sock(bbc-rss)) { sockclose bbc-rss }
  sockopen bbc-rss newsrss.bbc.co.uk 80
}
on *:sockopen:bbc-rss: {
  sockwrite -n $sockname GET /rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml HTTP/1.1
  sockwrite -n $sockname Host: newsrss.bbc.co.uk $+ $crlf $+ $crlf
}
on *:sockread:bbc-rss: {
  if ($sockerr) { halt }
  else {
    var %s.data
    sockread %s.data
    if (<item> isin %s.data) { set %s.item 1 }
    if (<title> isin %s.data) || (<link> isin %s.data) && (%s.item) {
      set %d. [ $+ [ $remove($gettok(%s.data,-1,60),$chr(47),$chr(62)) ] ] $remove(%s.data,<title>,</title>,<link>,</link>)
    }
    if (%d.title) && (%d.link) {
      echo -a News: %d.title »  $+ $remove(%d.link,$chr(32)) $+
      unset %s.* %d.*
      sockclose $sockname
    }
  }
}

So far i know all rss feeds have <item>, <title> and <link> in it, so i dont see why it wont work on all sites. Anyone know what i can do to make it work on all rss feeds?

Re: socket rss help beni87 #215848 10/10/09 06:12 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	Not all feeds are RSS2.0 Some are Atom, which is a different format. Of course there's also the issue that you're assuming that 1. the text of interest is on the same line as the <link>/<title> tags 2. <title> isn't on the same line as <link> 3. the first < of the line is from the <title> or <link> tag and I'm sure there are other logic errors in that script. None of those 3 points are guaranteed. You should try to find a proper XML parsing dll/script for an RSS feed. - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

Re: socket rss help beni87 #215850 10/10/09 08:20 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,156 Seattle D DJ_Sol Hoopy frood
DJ_Sol Hoopy frood D Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,156 Seattle	Or just echo the page to a window and figure out how to parse the info you need.

Re: socket rss help DJ_Sol #215851 10/10/09 08:30 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	He wants it to work on "all" (or most, I guess) feeds.. this can't be done by example... it can only be done by properly parsing XML, which mIRC isn't too great at. - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

Re: socket rss help argv0 #215852 10/10/09 11:47 PM
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 759 Arnhem, The Netherlands M Mpdreamz Hoopy frood
Mpdreamz Hoopy frood M Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 759 Arnhem, The Netherlands	Shameless plug but you could use my [url=XML Parser]http://www.mirc.net/projects.php?view_snippet=1236016348[/url]. It also includes an example alias that parses an online rss feed. $maybe

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