Display RSS feed

Notice: This macro is deprecated. Please request the functionality for the IncludeMacro if you need it.

Description

A Simple RSS News Retriever: Returns the content of an rss2 feed, parsed and pretty.

This edition:

• caches fetched feeds to /tmp/tracrss
• returns the feed as a <dl>

Customisation:

• RESULTS_FULL = 1; < number of results for which descriptions are displayed
• RESULTS_TOTAL = 5; < total number of results, titles of posts are displayed
• CACHE_INTERVAL = 1500 < time till feed is rechecked.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for RssGetMacro are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out RssGetMacro from here using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Example

[[RSSget(http://www.example.com/feed.xml)]]

Recent Changes

[965] by GraemeWorthy on 2006-06-27 21:53:29

RssGetMacro:

fixes #444

[832] by GraemeWorthy on 2006-06-08 01:14:57

RssGetMacro:

Added better comment block at the top
removed all print statements with comments to #print, it was messing up apache.

[831] by GraemeWorthy on 2006-06-08 01:03:03

RssGetMacro:

[WEB-00]

Author/Contributors

Author: GraemeWorthy
Maintainer: none (deprecated)
Contributors: