[syndication] Re: RSS feed filtered by keywords?

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>> Hey does anyone know of an RSS reader that supports filtering feeds by
>
>I was just thinking of this recently. It seems like something that could
>easily be hacked into Blagg or AmphetaDesk... Of course I haven't done
>anything more than think about it yet...

Indeed. I've mentioned it a few times on the AmphetaDesk mailing lists.
Ultimately, for example, if you wanted to show all items that ONLY matched
"perl", you could hop into amphetadesk/templates/default/index.html and add:

   next unless $item->{description} =~ /perl/;

after these lines:

 # each of the channel items.
 foreach my $item (@{$data->{item}}) {

Likewise, you could still show all the items, but instead, hilight items in
red when they match your criteria (remove the "next unless" line from above
first). Change this line:

 to_browser(qq{ $item->{description} }) if $item->{description};

to:

 to_browser(qq{ <font color="#ffff00"> }) if $item->{description} =~ /perl/;
 to_browser(qq{ $item->{description} }) if $item->{description};
 to_browser(qq{ </font> }) if $item->{description} =~ /perl/;

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