Quick Changes As Rss

See RecentChangesRss.

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Both lists on this page work in MozillaFirefox but not in MicrosoftInternetExplorer (IE), only available standard at workplace. Maybe the missing <?xml version="1.0" ?> in first line is the culprit?

• checking against http://rss.scripting.com , the first script returns ok, whereas the second one gave an error

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Here's a simple RubyLanguage script that I use to grab QuickChanges in RSS (RichSiteSummary) format.

Why could this be useful? Well, I'm running KDE -- the K Desktop Environment -- which contains KNewsTicker, a so-called panel applet that displays a scrolling list of news headlines from various sources. These sources supply their data in RSS format and with this script the Wiki is one of them.

-- MichaelSchuerig

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 #! /usr/bin/ruby

 require 'net/http'

 @pat = %r{<a href=wiki\?(.*?)>(.*?)</a>}
 @server = 'c2.com'
 @quickChanges = '/cgi/quickChanges?days=1'
 @linkbase = 'http://' + @server + '/cgi/wiki?'


 def main()
begin
 h = Net::HTTP.new(@server)
 resp, data = h.get(@quickChanges, nil)
 print_header()
 print_entries(data)
 print_footer()
rescue Exception
 exit(1)
end
 end

 def print_entries(changes)
changes.grep(@pat) { |p|
 print "<item><title>#{$2}</title>"
 print "<link>#{@linkbase}#{$1}</link></item>\n"
}
 end

 def print_header()
 print <<EOS
 <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN"
  "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
 <rss version="0.91">
 <channel>
 <title>Wiki Quick Changes</title>
 <language>en</language>
 <link>http://c2.com/cgi/quickChanges</link>
 <description>WikiWikiWeb Quick Changes</description>
 EOS
 end

 def print_footer()
 print <<EOS
 </channel>
 </rss>
 EOS
 end

 main()

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