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Originally Posted by Tommy
Hi,
maybe this is the opportunity the perl-hack (getfeed.pl) I posted in the Scotty's "Daily Illadian" thread 
What this hack does is to fetch one or more feeds and convert them into either an HTML or LaTeX file. Further, it is possible to retrieve the articles to which the feeds are pointing to. In addition to this, it is possible to specify "cutting-tags" (per feed of course), in order chop off annoying stuff (like ads, links referring to other articles, etc)
As this is maybe not exactly what the other posters have in mind, I also want to mention how this program is used: I have a (shell) script that first executes getfeed.pl, runs pdflatex again in order to get the toc right and then the resulting PDF is copied to my USB stick. At the train station I plug in this stick and execute a sript on the Iliad that copies myFeeds.pdf to the Iliad's news folder.
This routine proved quite handy, as there is no need to actually boot the Iliad in the mornings to get the file copied from my PC to the Iliad, but only once to copy the news from the USB stick and then I start reading.
Just as an appetiser, I attached today's edition of my "Daily Illadian"
Best regards,
Tommy
PS: yes, I'm running Linux  But in principle it should be possible to use this on an MS-box, too, however some work would have to be invested (perl, latex), but still you wouldn't need to have any developing skills. |
What we're working on with Feedbooks should work the same way with the possibility to add a few feeds to a single PDF files (+ some other stuff like sudokus, and we're working on additional stuff like weather forecast).
One pretty cool feature on the iLiad is its Wifi connection. We have a subscription feature on Feedbooks that generate an XML files with all the subscription informations for every user: this way, building an app that would work directly on the iLiad itself, and that would fetch the newspapers is going to be pretty easy.
The URL for this file is: http://www.feedbooks.com/user/newsstand/?user={yourlogin}&password={MD5 Hash of your password}
And the answer looks like something like that:
<newsstand>
<status>OK</status>
<subscription template="iLiad" type="Newspaper">
<title>Sudoku Maniac</title>
<url>http://www.feedbooks.com/news/newspaper2pdf/2?format=iliad</url>
</subscription>
<subscription template="Sony" type="Feed">
<title>Slashdot</title>
<url>http://www.feedbooks.com/news/rss2pdf/5?format=sony</url>
</subscription>
</newsstand>
First tag is for the status of your query: OK if you provided the right user/password.
And afterwards you get all the subscriptions from the website: the template, the type of content, the title of the content and the URL for this content.
This system is completely device agnostic, this way we can easily add support for new templates/contents/devices in the future.