[Liverpool] News feed reader with automatic alert based on search words

Sebastian Arcus s.arcus at open-t.co.uk
Tue Nov 20 17:27:58 UTC 2018


On 19/11/18 23:41, Neil Bothwick via Liverpool wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:30:06 +0000, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool wrote:
> 
>>> I wondered about a Python script using the feedparser module. That
>>> could subscribe to your feeds, parse the results and alert on
>>> matches, all from a single script.
>>
>> Thank you Neil. That does sounds like another possibility.
> 
> I'm sure you could also do it in Perl if readability isn't a
> requirement ;-)

I can't say that I'm on very intimate terms with Perl. If push comes to 
shove, I might rely on PHP ;-) Apparently there are at least 4 RSS 
parsing libraries for PHP.

Yes, I'll get my coat now :-)



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