Ok.. I know I'm a little behind here so go easy on me. I remember not too long ago the Dovenet "Debate" msg area carried CNN headline news. Or was I really drunk?? Anyway.. what ever happend to that? Why was it discontinued? I don't remember why? I also found this cute python script written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there away to run a python script in synchronet? Can a python script be converted to javascript?? Do I want to? Should I even have an rss feed pulled on my BBS? Why not? Has a script like this ever written for Synchronet? Ok.. I'll shutup now. Any answers would be appreciated.

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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to All on Thu May 30 2019 21:27:31

Ok.. I know I'm a little behind here so go easy on me. I remember not too long ago the Dovenet "Debate" msg area carried CNN headline news. Or was I really drunk?? Anyway.. what ever happend to that? Why was it

There used to be posts from "CNN Breaking News" and then "CNN News Alert" in DOVE-Net Debate, but this seems to have stopped back in January. I believe they originated as email messages (to an address mapped to the Debate sub on Vert). Maybe CNN discontinued or altered this service.

written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there away to run a

BBS? Why not? Has a script like this ever written for Synchronet? Ok..

I made a thing years ago called web_feed_importer.js which I think is in the exec/ directory, if not in your installation then in CVS. I believe it still works with RSS or Atom feeds. I think there are some instructions at the top of the script; I don't remember documenting it anywhere else.

If RSS were more prevalent/relevant today I'd probably revise that thing, as I've recently gotten a better understanding of the XML parser available here, and there are some other things I'd make it do. Doubt if it's worth the time, but maybe I'll think about that.

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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to All on Thu May 30 2019 09:27 pm

Ok.. I know I'm a little behind here so go easy on me. I remember not too long ago the Dovenet "Debate" msg area carried CNN headline news. Or was I really drunk?? Anyway.. what ever happend to that? Why was it discontinued? I don't remember why? I also found this cute python script written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there away to run a python script in synchronet? Can a python script be converted to javascript?? Do I want to? Should I even have an rss feed pulled on my BBS? Why not? Has a script like this ever written for Synchronet? Ok.. I'll shutup now. Any answers would be appreciated.

yeah he had it in here. it probably busted or cnn did something.
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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to All on Thu May 30 2019 09:27 pm

found this cute python script written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there away to run a python script in
synchronet? Can a python script be converted to javascript?? Do I want to? Should I even have an rss feed pulled on my BBS? Why
not? Has a script like this ever written for Synchronet? Ok.. I'll shutup now. Any answers would be appreciated.

That's so weird - I'm not sure what put me on the path of finding this out not more than 20 minutes ago, but a quick bit of hunting around for an RSS importer for Synchronet caused me to trip across "web_feed_importer.js".

So, yes, one exists. I haven't tried it, but it's got the documentation at the top part of the file.

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Re: Headline News
By: echicken to HusTler on Thu May 30 2019 10:35 pm

Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to All on Thu May 30 2019 21:27:31

Ok.. I know I'm a little behind here so go easy on me. I remember not too long ago the Dovenet "Debate" msg area carried CNN headline news. Or was I really drunk?? Anyway.. what ever happend to that? Why was it

There used to be posts from "CNN Breaking News" and then "CNN News Alert" in DOVE-Net Debate, but this seems to have stopped back in January. I believe they originated as email messages (to an address mapped to the Debate sub on Vert). Maybe CNN discontinued or altered this service.

They changed the format of their emails and my script wasn't converting them to readable plain-text very well, so I started just archiving the emails, to deal with later, and then sort of format. Now it seems I stopped receiving the emails about a year ago. <shrug>

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Re: Headline News
By: echicken to HusTler on Thu May 30 2019 10:35 pm

I made a thing years ago called web_feed_importer.js which I think is in the exec/ directory, if not in your installation then in CVS. I believe it still works with RSS or Atom feeds. I think there are some instructions at the top of the script; I don't remember documenting it anywhere else.

I use it, pulls in news from Atari boards like AtariAge. It used to work with other sites, but they probably changed their format or something. /shrug
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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to All on Thu May 30 2019 09:27 pm

discontinued? I don't remember why? I also found this cute python script written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there away to run a python script in synchronet?

Synchronet doesn't have any built-in support for Python. Depending on how the Python script works though, if the script just dumps an article to a file, perhaps a script could be written to read that file and post it on a Synchronet message sub-board. It sounds like that script is probably written for Mysitc though, so it probably wouldn't be quite that easy.

Can a python script be converted to
javascript??

No, there's no possible way. ;) Seriously though, someone could manually re-write it in JavaScript if they wanted to.

Should I even have an rss feed pulled on my
BBS? Why not? Has a script like this ever written for Synchronet? Ok..

If you want to post news articles on your BBS, why not?

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Re: Headline News
By: Nightfox to HusTler on Fri May 31 2019 09:19 am

discontinued? I don't remember why? I also found this cute python
script written for mystic that pulls from a CNN rss feed. Is there
away to run a python script in synchronet?

Synchronet doesn't have any built-in support for Python. Depending on how the Python script works though, if the script just dumps an article to a file, perhaps a script could be written to read that file and post it on a Synchronet message sub-board. It sounds like that script is probably written for Mysitc though, so it probably wouldn't be quite that easy.

Can a python script be converted to Javascript?

Thanks for the replies. I've Been playing with this RSS stuff all day. A lot of
old information but rss IS old. I'm wondering why feeds on Synchronet have been abandoned? Even google dumped RSS. I can't remember why. I'd like to get everything I need in one place. It bothers me to have to go out to the web just to get the latest headlines. I couldn't get any of the scripts I found
working. Are rss feeds still in xml? Feeds were the craze back in 06-07. What happened? Smart Phones? I'm thinking about putting a disclaimer on my logon screen. "Whatever you're looking for it ain't here. It's on some damn app on the web. LOL

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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to Nightfox on Fri May 31 2019 03:37 pm

old information but rss IS old. I'm wondering why feeds on Synchronet have been abandoned? Even google dumped RSS. I can't remember why. I'd like to

I saw Digital Man's reply where he said he was getting CNN emails and had a script to post them on Dove-Net, but they stopped coming in.

What do you mean by "Google dumped RSS"? I remember Google having an online RSS reader that they discontinued. Google seems to discontinue a lot of stuff that are semi-popular. Google Wave and Google Plus are a couple other high-profile things that Google discontinued.

It bothers me to have to go out to the
web just to get the latest headlines.

You'd rather log into your BBS to get headlines? ;) I don't think that would necessarily be much simpler/easier.

found working. Are rss feeds still in xml? Feeds were the craze back in 06-07. What happened? Smart Phones? I'm thinking about putting a disclaimer on my logon screen. "Whatever you're looking for it ain't here. It's on some damn app on the web. LOL

RSS never went away. You can still use an RSS app and subscribe to RSS feeds if you want to.

I don't mind going to the web for news stories. Sometimes I visit digg.com for news stories. Late last year I finally created a Reddit account and have subscribed to some subs there for news. My Android phone also has an app called SmartNews that I actually kinda like for showing news from multiple categories.

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Re: Headline News
By: Android8675 to echicken on Fri May 31 2019 06:23:42

I made a thing years ago called web_feed_importer.js which I think is in the exec/ directory, if not in your installation then in CVS. I believe it still works with RSS or Atom feeds. I think there are some instructions at the top of the script; I don't remember documenting it anywhere else.

I use it, pulls in news from Atari boards like AtariAge. It used to work with other sites, but they probably changed their format or something.

Well I'll be...that js file is indeed there with instructions at the top. I think I will play with this sometime today.


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Re: Headline News
By: HusTler to Nightfox on Fri May 31 2019 15:37:22

old information but rss IS old. I'm wondering why feeds on Synchronet have been abandoned? Even google dumped RSS. I can't remember why. I'd like to

Not sure what you mean by "feeds on Synchronet have been abandoned". We have modules for importing messages from an RSS feed, or exporting messages to an RSS feed. Nobody has asked for additional functionality that I can recall, or reported any bugs recently.

been abandoned? Even google dumped RSS. I can't remember why. I'd like to get everything I need in one place. It bothers me to have to go out to the web just to get the latest headlines. I couldn't get any of the scripts I

I was annoyed when Google retired Reader, but presumably it wasn't popular enough to make it worth their while. Or they couldn't find much of a way to make money off of it.

There are a lot of reasons why publishers and advertisers would rather suck you into a website than let you get everything via RSS. Sucks for the users, but that's life.

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Re: Headline News
By: echicken to HusTler on Mon Jun 03 2019 10:44 am

Synchronet have been abandoned? Even google dumped RSS. I can't
remember why. I'd like to

Not sure what you mean by "feeds on Synchronet have been abandoned". We have modules for importing messages from an RSS feed, or exporting messages to an RSS feed. Nobody has asked for additional functionality that I can recall, or reported any bugs recently.

I was annoyed when Google retired Reader, but presumably it wasn't popular enough to make it worth their while. Or they couldn't find much of a way to make money off of it.

There are a lot of reasons why publishers and advertisers would rather suck you into a website than let you get everything via RSS. Sucks for the users, but that's life.

I agree with everthing you say but some Mystic boards have rss feed doors. I would like one for synchronet that's all. If I have to go to another BBS to reed an rss feed so be it. I don't have to like it. In fact I think it SUCS!

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