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    • K Offline
      KRegan
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      I am just learning programming, but wanted to try and write a module to pull text from a website that updates that text daily. Is this doable? Would I have to build an rss feed fron the data first? Also, Can I set the module to scroll the text because it usually won’t all fit neatly onto the screen space. Thank you in advance!

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        yawns Moderator
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        Is it plain text? Or formatted text inside a website?

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        • K Offline
          KRegan
          last edited by

          So, I’ll just put it out there. I’m an alcoholic. There are these daily guidance that are set for every day called the daily reflections. They are published on a number of different websites and update daily.

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            yawns Moderator @KRegan
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            Okay, understood. So we are talking about a site like this?
            https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/daily-reflection

            That’s a full website which makes it difficult just extracting the reflection. Not impossible, but difficult and vulnerable to parsing errors. Do you have other sites, maybe a rss feed or something similar?

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              KRegan @yawns
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              @yawns So, I did find this rss feed.

              http://aadailyreflections.blogspot.com/atom.xml

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                KRegan @yawns
                last edited by

                @yawns from this website
                http://aadailyreflections.blogspot.com/

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