rss to email script?

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Hi,

is there a script out there that can send RSS feeds to a given email
account? I have search the usual suspects (google, SF, FM, hotscripts) but
could not find anything

thanks

Oliver

[NC]

Re: rss to email script?

Oliver Spiesshofer wrote:[color=blue]
>
> is there a script out there that can send RSS feeds to a given email
> account?[/color]

It's a two-line affair, really:

$rss_feed = file_get_conten ts('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
mail('user@exam ple2.com', 'RSS Feed from Example1.com', $rss_feed,
'Content-Type: application/rss+xml');

Cheers,
NC

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Re: rss to email script?

"NC" <nc@iname.com > wrote in news:1109098736 .662898.47610
@c13g2000cwb.go oglegroups.com:
[color=blue]
> Oliver Spiesshofer wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> is there a script out there that can send RSS feeds to a given email
>> account?[/color]
>
> It's a two-line affair, really:
>
> $rss_feed = file_get_conten ts('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
> mail('user@exam ple2.com', 'RSS Feed from Example1.com', $rss_feed,
> 'Content-Type: application/rss+xml');[/color]

yes but not exactly what I want.
I want each item of the rss sent as a seperate email with the proper $from
$subject etc fields filled in so I can mark single items as read. Also, it
should not send anything twice, and check for new items in the rss feed at
a given interval.

Oliver

[NC]

Re: rss to email script?

Oliver Spiesshofer wrote:[color=blue]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > is there a script out there that can send RSS feeds to
> > > a given email account?[/color]
> >
> > It's a two-line affair, really:
> >
> > $rss_feed = file_get_conten ts('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
> > mail('user@exam ple2.com', 'RSS Feed from Example1.com', $rss_feed,
> > 'Content-Type: application/rss+xml');[/color]
>
> yes but not exactly what I want.
> I want each item of the rss sent as a seperate email with
> the proper $from $subject etc fields filled in so I can mark
> single items as read. Also, it should not send anything twice,
> and check for new items in the rss feed at a given interval.[/color]

Ah, now we are talking specifications. .. First of all, "check
for new items in the rss feed at a given interval" cannot be
implemented in PHP; you'll have to use OS-level scheduling
facilities for that.

Given your preference for itemization, I don't think you'll be
able to find anything that will fit you out of the box. This,
however, should get you started:

$content = file_get_conten ts('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
$p = xml_parser_crea te();
xml_parse_into_ struct($p, $content, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free ($p);
unset($content) ;
foreach ($index['LINK'] as $key => $link_id) {
$title_id = $index['TITLE'][$key];
$description_id = $index['DESCRIPTION'][$key];
$title = $vals[$title_id]['value'];
$link = $vals[$link_id]['value'];
$description = $vals[$description_id]['value'];
$subject = 'Example1.com: ' . $title;
$message = $title . "\r\n" . $link . "\r\n\r\n" .
wordwrap($descr iption, 72, "\r\n");
mail('user@exam ple2.com', $subject, $message);
}

The only functionality missing from your request is "it should
not send anything twice". You can implement it by creating
a log file or a database where you will store URLs of pages
whose descriptions have already been sent. Let's say you
implemented these two functions:

boolean link_logged(str ing $link)
Returns true if $link is already in the database or false
otherwise.

void log_link(string $link)
Adds a new record to the log.

Then your code can morph into something like this:

$content = file_get_conten ts('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
$p = xml_parser_crea te();
xml_parse_into_ struct($p, $content, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free ($p);
unset($content) ;
foreach ($index['LINK'] as $key => $link_id) {
$title_id = $index['TITLE'][$key];
$description_id = $index['DESCRIPTION'][$key];
$title = $vals[$title_id]['value'];
$link = $vals[$link_id]['value'];
$description = $vals[$description_id]['value'];
if (!link_logged($ link)) {
$subject = 'Example1.com: ' . $title;
$message = $title . "\r\n" . $link . "\r\n\r\n" .
wordwrap($descr iption, 72, "\r\n");
mail('user@exam ple2.com', $subject, $message);
log_link($link) ;
}
}

Proper "From:" heading is still missing, but it wouldn't be
too hard to add...

Cheers,
NC

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Re: rss to email script?

thanks a lot for your help.
Finally I took a RSS parser (DOMIT) and made a database, cronjob etc.

You can take a look at it at

http://tokyoahead.com/main/staticpages/index.php?page=newsmailer

You have t oregister on the site however in order to verify the email
address...

Oliver