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NAME

WebFetch::Input::RSS - download and save an RSS feed

SYNOPSIS

In perl scripts:

use WebFetch::Input::RSS;

From the command line:

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

DESCRIPTION

This module gets the current headlines from a site-local file.

The --input parameter specifies a file name which contains news to be posted. See "FILE FORMAT" below for details on contents to put in the file. --input may be specified more than once, allowing a single news output to come from more than one input. For example, one file could be manually maintained in CVS or RCS and another could be entered from a web form.

After this runs, the file site_news.html will be created or replaced. If there already was a site_news.html file, it will be moved to Osite_news.html.

RSS FORMAT

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

WebFetch::Input::RSS uses Perl's XML::RSS to parse RSS "Really Simple Syndication" version 0.9, 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0, whichever is provided by the server.

AUTHOR

WebFetch was written by Ian Kluft Send patches, bug reports, suggestions and questions to maint@webfetch.org.

SEE ALSO

WebFetch