NAME

WebFetch::RSS - generate or read an RSS feed for WebFetch

VERSION

version 0.3.1

SYNOPSIS

In perl scripts:

C<use WebFetch::RSS;>

From the command line:

C<perl -w -MWebFetch::RSS -e "&fetch_main" -- --dir directory --source rss-feed-url [...output options...]>

or

C<perl -w -MWebFetch::RSS -e "&fetch_main" -- --dir directory [...input options...]> --dest_format=rss --dest=file

DESCRIPTION

This module reads news items from an RSS feed, or writes previously-fetched data to an RSS file.

For input it uses WebFetch's --source parameter to specify the URL of an RSS feed or a local file containing RSS XML text.

For output it uses WebFetch's --dest parameter to specify the RSS output file. (RSS output is not complete yet as of this release.)

RSS FORMAT

RSS is an XML format defined at http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification

WebFetch::RSS uses Perl's XML::RSS to generate or parse RSS "Really Simple Syndication" version 0.9, 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0, whichever is provided by the server. An optional "--rss_version" command-line parameter or "rss_version" initialization parameter can set the RSS version number for the parser. If not specified, it defaults to RSS 2.0.

SEE ALSO

WebFetch https://github.com/ikluft/WebFetch

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Please report bugs via GitHub at https://github.com/ikluft/WebFetch/issues

Patches and enhancements may be submitted via a pull request at https://github.com/ikluft/WebFetch/pulls

AUTHOR

Ian Kluft <https://github.com/ikluft>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 1998-2022 by Ian Kluft.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007