## Time-stamp: <2017-12-26 16:23:52 vk> ## This file is best viewed with GNU Emacs Org-mode: http://orgmode.org/
RSS is a widely used standard to distribute updates and content over the internet.
-u
,--url
, url to an rss file-f
,--file
, path to an rss file
This module uses the Python library feedparser which might need to be to be installed before using this module.
When using Ubuntu GNU/Linux or any other Debian GNU/Linux based distribution you can install the package by invoking «apt-get install python-feedparser» as the root user.
the <guid> property of an <item> in rss becomes following:
:PROPERTIES: ... :ID: <id> ... :END:
At beginning, if an outputfile exists this memacs module looks for existing id’s. Only new items are then appended.
rss from URL
memacs_rss.py -u "http://example.com/file.rss" -o "/home/user/orgmode/memacs/rss_foo.org_archive"
rss from file
memacs_rss.py -f "/path/to/file.rss" -o "/home/user/orgmode/memacs/rss_foo.org_archive"
example with twitter (replace <USERNAME> with twitter-name):
memacs_rss.py -u "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=<USERNAME>" -o "/home/user/orgmode/memacs/twitter-<USERNAME>.org_archive"
** [[http://www.wikipedia.org/][link]]: Example entry :tag: Here is some text containing an interesting description. :PROPERTIES: :LINK: [[http://www.wikipedia.org/]] :CREATED: <2009-09-06 Sun 18:45> :ID: unique string per item :SUMMARY: Here is some text containing an interesting description. :ID: unique string per item :END: