Is there any way to grab RSS-messages with TW and put them into tiddlers?

[Yakov]

I thought that there's such a plugin is in the BidiX's repository, but
it seems that I thought wrong: as I understand, [1] is a service which
allows to read RSS in a page (usage:

http://tiddlylab.bidix.info/news.php?rss=http://.../index.xml
like
http://tiddlylab.bidix.info/news.php?rss=http://www.tiddlywiki.com/index.xml

); [2] is a plugin which allows to generate custom RSS of your TW; and
[3] is a plugin which enables TW to read an RSS Feed without creating
anything in TiddlyWiki.

What I'm looking for is an engine which would grab RSS-messages and
store them as tiddlers so that if an appropriate interface is created
I would be able to look through new messages, delete unimportant ones
and sort the others.

Is this possible without server-side engine?
Is there any such solution?

Any help is appreciated.

[1] http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#RSSReaderService
[2] http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#GenerateRssByTag
[3] http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/#RSSReaderPlugin

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Yakov...

> Is this possible without server-side engine?
> Is there any such solution?

Yes...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9670094/zandkasteel/newsfeed.html#RSSAdaptor

The RSSAdaptor is a plugin which allows you to import from a rss feed
(via backstage) and create tiddlers.

In the tw (link above) are some tiddlers that are create from the
newsfeed of this google groups (all titles start with RE:)

Bauwe

[skye riquelme]

Hi Bauwe

I like the look of this plugin and it has great potential por an
application I am working on...but the TW does not make it clear how to
use it. It says the RSS feed is accesse automatically from the
backstage.......but how do I specify the rss feed ou tw tag to look
for....set.......how do I call the adaptor.

Thanks in Advance
Skye

On Jun 15, 7:07 am, Bauwe Bijl <bauweb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Yakov...
>
> > Is this possible without server-side engine?
> > Is there any such solution?
>

> Yes...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9670094/zandkasteel/newsfeed.html#RSSAdaptor

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Skye

> I like the look of this plugin and it has great potential por an
> application I am working on...but the TW does not make it clear how to
> use it.

1) you use the plugin in a local tw
2) via backstage > import
3) select server type > rss (default is TiddlyWiki)
4) paste a rss url ( eg. http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml
)
5) open
6) select single posts (or all)
...import

enjoy!

Bauwe

[skye riquelme]

Hi Bauwe

OK thanks. Would it be possible to automate this process. Having the
options (feed type, url...) etc set (in a systemConfig tiddler for
example) and have the TW automatically read in new feeds every so
often - each 3 minutes...or maybe everytime the display is
refreshed....my thinking is along the lines of a simples alternative
to RippleRap.....for shared notetaking for example......

Yours
Skye

On Jun 15, 11:32 am, Bauwe Bijl <bauweb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Skye
>
> > I like the look of this plugin and it has great potential por an
> > application I am working on...but the TW does not make it clear how to
> > use it.
>
> 1) you use the plugin in a local tw
> 2) via backstage > import
> 3) select server type > rss (default is TiddlyWiki)

> 4) paste a rss url ( eg.http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Skye

> Would it be possible to automate this process. Having the
> options (feed type, url...) etc set (in a systemConfig tiddler for
> example) and have the TW automatically read in new feeds every so
> often - each 3 minutes...or maybe everytime the display is
> refreshed....my thinking is along the lines of a simples alternative
> to RippleRap.....for shared notetaking for example......

Well...the RSSadaptor is for importing the content...but when you
mention "automatic read" and "notetaking", you might be interested in
my dropbox experiment (Alex and I have tested this on a private
dropbox folder...but also a public version is available)

Check this post (and join in so we can test together):
http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/374e22944fa31c70#

Bauwe

[Yakov]

Aha, that's interesting. I'll try this; though, I'd say that a
"refresh" button instead of backtage and ability to read the content
before import (so that you can skip import of unimportant news) would
be proper approach for newshub.

Then if it's possible to use TiddlerTweakerPlugin [1] so that the
content of the currently chosen tiddler is shown below the tweaker,
this will be already decent tool for managing news. I'm going to ask
Eric later.

Though, for perfect work imported tiddlers should be marked with tags
based on the RSS-source. Like "news" for all imported, or "sports" for
those imported from some sport news site.

Anyway, thanks for the links and thanks Jon for the adaptor.

[1] http://tiddlytools.com/#TiddlerTweakerPlugin

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Yakov

> Aha, that's interesting. I'll try this; though, I'd say that a
> "refresh" button instead of backtage and ability to read the content
> before import (so that you can skip import of unimportant news) would
> be proper approach for newshub.

That is why I use both the RSSadaptor and the rss-reader
plugin...usually the rss-reader for up to date news (with the refresh
button)....and when some info comes that I like to import I use the
rss-adaptor to handpick the article.

> Then if it's possible to use TiddlerTweakerPlugin [1] so that the
> content of the currently chosen tiddler is shown below the tweaker,
> this will be already decent tool for managing news.

yes...but the tweaker is a powertool...it depends if other users are
involved (and know how to work with it)...a list system might do the
job in a more elegant way?

> Though, for perfect work imported tiddlers should be marked with tags
> based on the RSS-source. Like "news" for all imported, or "sports" for
> those imported from some sport news site.

In such case the tweaker is very useful...since it can "bulk-tag" many
tiddlers at once (select all tiddlers in the tweaker...say created
today....and add a tag to all in one time...)


Bauwe