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Online version of reallysimple #1
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Scott Block suggested creating a server version of the reallysimple parser so you don't have to deploy a server every time you need to parse a feed. Good idea. Ultimately I'd like to have a version that runs directly in the browser, but since it depends on the feedparser package, which is only available for Node, at this time it's not practical.
So I will provide a server implementation that can be accessed over the web and of course provide the source so you can deploy it yourself, esp if operating the server consumes a lot of resources.
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scripting commentedon Jun 12, 2022
I did a bit of digging and found that I already (basically) have a server version of reallysimple to support Drummer scripting and outlining.
There's a verb rss.readFeed, it takes a URL and returns an object that contains the contents of the feed.
If you have a node of type rss with an xmlUrl att that points to the feed, when you expand it you get the items from the feed.
Both of these call a server which is basically a wrapper for reallysimple.
I've updated the app so it makes good exampleware for the reallysimple package. I will have the source up in its own repo later today.
scripting commentedon Jun 12, 2022
Here's the server app.
https://github.com/scripting/feeder
You can use feeder.scripting.com if you're testing, but if you're deploying an app please run your own instance of this server.
Hope you like! :-)
scripting commentedon Jun 13, 2022
BTW, here's what a reallysimplified feed looks like.
http://feeder.scripting.com/returnjson?url=https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Theater.xml