Posted: 3/24/2009 10:23:35 AM EDT
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I'm looking for an RSS reader with a certain feature set and I'm not real familiar with them, so I figure maybe someone here will know this right off the top of their head.
Are there any free (like beer; like speech wouldn't hurt either) feed (RSS and/or ATOM) readers that automatically check the feed at a user specified interval and can pull out each item, extract from it user specified fields (title, link, pubDate), and save the information from those elements to a text file without user interaction? For instance, say you had a feed like <feed> <item> <title>Title1</title> <link>Link1</link> <pubDate>date1</pubDate> <description>description1</description> </item> <item> <title>Title2</title> <link>Link2</link> <pubDate>date2</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Title3</title> <link>Link3</link> <pubDate>date3</pubDate> <description>description3</description> </item> </feed> the reader would automatically generate results.txt containing Title1 Link1 Date1 Title2 Link2 Date2 Title3 Link3 Date3 ETA: I suppose it wouldn't have to be a "traditional" reader. It could also be a program that runs, does that stuff, creates the results.txt file, and exits; although that seems less likely to already exist. |
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Sorry for the late response, but I have a suggestion that might work. It's far from a traditional RSS reader, though.
You might be able to do it with a desktop customization program called Samurize. Link There's a bit of a learning curve to the program, and the documentation kind of sucks, but it's probably possible. You will probably need a plugin for it. I'd recommend pagescraper, which is part of the pluginpak, by a user named Uziq. Feel free to email me with any questions. Also, the Samurize website has a pretty decent forum for help. Good luck |