Perl script to be used with Conky. The script displays a simple RSS feed, titles only.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w ############################ # Creator: Jeff Israel # # Script: ./simple-rss-reader-v3.pl # Version: 3.001 # # Coded for for Wikihowto http://howto.wikia.com # # Description: This code downloads an RSS feed, # extracts the <title> lines, # cleans them up lines, # prints the pretty lines # exits on max-lines # Usage: # .conkyrc: ${execi [time] /path/to/script/simple-rss-reader-v3.pl} # # Usage Example # ${execi 300 /path/to/script/simple-rss-reader-v3.pl} # use LWP::Simple; ############################ # Configs # #$rssPage = "http://tvrss.net/feed/combined/"; $rssPage = "http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/"; $numLines = 10; $maxTitleLenght = 35; ########################### # Code # # Downloading RSS feed my $pageCont = get($rssPage); # Spliting the page to lines @pageLines = split(/\n/,$pageCont); # Parse each line, strip no-fun data, exit on max-lines $numLines--; #correcting count for loop $x = 0; foreach $line (@pageLines) { if($line =~ /\<title\>/){ # Is a good line? #print "- $line\n"; $lineCat = $line; $lineCat =~ s/.*\<title\>//; $lineCat =~ s/\<\/title\>.*//; $lineCat =~ s/\[.{4,25}\]$//; # strip no-fun data ( [from blaaa] ) $lineCat = substr($lineCat, 0, $maxTitleLenght); print "- $lineCat \n"; $x++; } if($x > $numLines) { last; #exit on max-lines } } #print $page; #print "\nBy Bye\n";