Rss for news feeds?

deadherring

Hey guys,

Thanks a lot for the responses. Here’s what I think might be happening:

The first three I configured that I got working

title: “ESPN”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news”

and one from CNN, I configured on the pi itself, modifying the config file with a mouse and keyboard on the pi. The rest that I shared that weren’t working, modified the config file on my mac via text edit and then ftp’d the file up to the pi. I suspect that the mac might be saving the file in a way the pi does not like, or, as was suggested, inputting the " s in a way the pi does not like. At least, that’s my theory right now, I need to test when I get home.

This is the procedure I am following to edit config.js on my mac:

Two-fingered click on config.js. Open with Text Edit
Modify the file
Save as: config.js. I leave the default plain text encoding (UTF-8)

Is that the right procedure? My MM is installed in the wall in my bathroom and it would be a huge pain to have to connect a mouse and keyboard to it every time I want to modify anything. I suppose I can ssh into it and modify the config file via nano too. I don’t know if that solves the problem, I have to try later.

Thanks again,

Nathan

KirAsh4

@deadherring said in Rss for news feeds?:

My MM is installed in the wall in my bathroom and it would be a huge pain to have to connect a mouse and keyboard to it every time I want to modify anything. I suppose I can ssh into it and modify the config file via nano too. I don’t know if that solves the problem, I have to try later.

Either use SSH to get on the rpi, or, if you must, get a wireless mouse/keyboard combo. Those things are cheap on eBay.

bhepler

@deadherring said in Rss for news feeds?:

and one from CNN, I configured on the pi itself, modifying the config file with a mouse and keyboard on the pi. The rest that I shared that weren’t working, modified the config file on my mac via text edit and then ftp’d the file up to the pi. I suspect that the mac might be saving the file in a way the pi does not like, or, as was suggested, inputting the " s in a way the pi does not like. At least, that’s my theory right now, I need to test when I get home.

I think you may be on to something here. Looking back at your complete list of feeds, this is what showed up from your copy & paste:

},

title: â€œJerusalem Postâ€
url: â€œhttp://www.jpost.com/Rss/RssFeedsFrontPage.aspxâ€
},

Now I don’t know about your Mac, but from here that looks like some unicode characters where there should be UTF-8. The quotes around Jerusalem Post and the URL value are jacked up. I think you’re better off SSH into the Pi and using nano to edit the config.js file.

deadherring

Hi,

I got this working, the problem was indeed something with the formatting by editing as a text file on my mac. By sshing into the box and modifying the config file directly on the pi I got it working.

One question I still have: is there any way to tell the box to drop headlines after 2 days or so? I’m seeing headlines that are 5, 6, 7, 8 days old cycle through and they are no longer news. I’m seeing some new headlines make their way in but the majority are old. I want to have the MM drop headlines when they are stale, say after 2 days time.

I see there is a updateInterval tag but I believe that refers to the frequency it checks for new headlines, not when it drops old headlines off. Anyone else having the same issue?

Thanks,

Nathan

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