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
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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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