Quick Changes As Rss

See RecentChangesRss.

Both lists on this page work in MozillaFirefox but not in MicrosoftInternetExplorer (IE), only available standard at workplace. Maybe the missing in first line is the culprit?

checking against http://rss.scripting.com , the first script returns ok, whereas the second one gave an error

Here's a simple RubyLanguage script that I use to grab QuickChanges in RSS (RichSiteSummary) format.

Why could this be useful? Well, I'm running KDE -- the K Desktop Environment -- which contains KNewsTicker, a so-called panel applet that displays a scrolling list of news headlines from various sources. These sources supply their data in RSS format and with this script the Wiki is one of them.

-- MichaelSchuerig


        #! /usr/bin/ruby


        require 'net/http'


        @pat = %r{(.*?)}

        @server = 'c2.com'

        @quickChanges = '/cgi/quickChanges?days=1'

        @linkbase = 'http://' + @server + '/cgi/wiki?'


        def main()

        begin

        h = Net::HTTP.new(@server)

        resp, data = h.get(@quickChanges, nil)

        print_header()

        print_entries(data)

        print_footer()

        rescue Exception

        exit(1)

        end

        end


        def print_entries(changes)

        changes.grep(@pat) { |p|

        print "#{$2}"

        print "#{@linkbase}#{$1}\n"

        }

        end


        def print_header()

        print <
        
        "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">

        

        

        Wiki Quick Changes

        en

        http://c2.com/cgi/quickChanges

        WikiWikiWeb Quick Changes

        EOS

        end


        def print_footer()

        print <
        

        

        EOS

        end


        main()

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