Announcing RSS-to-Memo

hacker · 02-22-2005, 05:28 PM

I've been playing around with lots of RSS, RDF, and Atom code lately in a stealth project (major annoucement soon, Alexander has already seen some of the project), and in testing, I came up with some interesting bits of Perl that I think others will find useful.

So in that vein, attached is a small perl script that will take a feed (specified by you) and convert it to a MemoDB record that you can read in MemoPad on your Palm device.

It works like this:

Code:

./rss-to-memo --name Plucker --feed http://www.plkr.org/rss.pl

It will either append or create anew, MemoDB.pdb, with the feed of your choice as a record in MemoPad.

It requires a few non-core Perl modules, so you'll have to install those. To do that, just use the following syntax:

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Getopt::Long"'

The Palm-specific modules (Palm::PDB and Palm::Memo) can be found at the Coldsync homepage. I cooked this up quick, but I could also use the Perl bindings in pilot-link, but I decided not to, because it requires a bit more work to get the pilot-link Perl bindings installed on most systems.

Simple, and all in 33 lines of code!

melvynadam · 02-23-2005, 06:00 AM

Any chance of an installer for those of us that found the OP a tad confusing?

hacker · 02-23-2005, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by melvynadam

Any chance of an installer for those of us that found the OP a tad confusing?

An installer for what? Its a Perl script... just run it. If it complains that modules are missing, install those modules and run it again.

Chaos · 02-23-2005, 10:42 PM

Pretty nice. I might play with it a bit when I get the chance... Along with that mapquest script from a couple weeks ago when the workload lightens (with luck, this weekend!).

"Stealth project" involving RSS, and other feed types... I'm going to guess RSS support for Plucker (or something similar)? Of course I could and probably am wrong, but anything to do with hacker and RSS and Palm devices and Perl has to end very well for everyone.

Indeed, that's a compliment to your high skills.

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02-23-2005, 06:00 AM	#2
melvynadam Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Israel Device: Kindle Paperwhite, iPhone, iPad	Any chance of an installer for those of us that found the OP a tad confusing?

02-23-2005, 10:42 PM	#4
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	Pretty nice. I might play with it a bit when I get the chance... Along with that mapquest script from a couple weeks ago when the workload lightens (with luck, this weekend!). "Stealth project" involving RSS, and other feed types... I'm going to guess RSS support for Plucker (or something similar)? Of course I could and probably am wrong, but anything to do with hacker and RSS and Palm devices and Perl has to end very well for everyone. Indeed, that's a compliment to your high skills.