Has any one been successful in importing an RSS feed in to a message base in Mystic?
Any information would be appreciated.

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Re: Import a RSS feed in to a message base
By: Jeff Earle to All on Thu Apr 01 2021 10:07 am

Has any one been successful in importing an RSS feed in to a message base in Mystic?
Any information would be appreciated.

if you look at the sample mutil.ini, the section about importing text files to message bases..

i bet you could find an rss client that exports to a text file daily.. only new stuff. or if it's not intended to do that, something like:

<name of console rss client> > to_bbs.txt

might be possible?

otherwise, you could try to put that python support to use with an example from:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python_text_processing/python_reading_rss_feed.h tm

i'm not sure if it can post directly to the message base, but you could again use the above text import

if you look at the sample mutil.ini, the section about importing text files to message bases..

i bet you could find an rss client that exports to a text file daily.. only new stuff. or if it's not intended to do that, something like:

I would like to have it more than daily. I'll give this a look.

otherwise, you could try to put that python support to use with an
example from:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python_text_processing/python_reading_rss_f tm

i'm not sure if it can post directly to the message base, but you could again use the above text import

Thanks, might be promising. I'll give it a look.

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Has any one been successful in importing an RSS feed in to a message
base in Mystic?

I've seen a few that import news using RSS. The easiest way would probably be to do it with Mystic Python since there are modules that can probably grab RSS articles with just a few lines of code.

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I've seen a few that import news using RSS. The easiest way would probably be to do it with Mystic Python since there are modules that can probably grab RSS articles with just a few lines of code.

I agree. I have searched for any 3rd party apps that would do it but I could not find anything. I have no experience with Python. That will take a little more searching. I might have to find someone to create the code as it would take me a while to teach myself.

Thanks for the info.

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I agree. I have searched for any 3rd party apps that would do it but I could not find anything. I have no experience with Python. That will
take a little more searching. I might have to find someone to create the code as it would take me a while to teach myself.

I don't know of any specifically but I do know I've seen a few that scrape news from various sources. Unfortunately I haven't been keeping up with the modding scene all that much these days so I can't point you in the right direction.

In terms of Mystic Python it can be done with a few lines of code, but obviously you'd need to understand Python.

import feedparser

NewsFeed = feedparser.parse("https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeedstopstories.cms")

writeln("Number of RSS posts: " + str(len(NewsFeed.entries)))

entry = NewsFeed.entries[1]

writeln("Post Title: " + entry.title);

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