Thursday, July 23, 2009
RSS witch (evaluator) near completion [Wave]
Thursday, July 23, 2009 
Update:
I have tested this out and it's working just fine. Of course if I change the title of a post, you'll get another notification for that item. I think that's fair enough as that will probably almost never happen.
After a little bit of work I seem to have created something that will automate Wave notifications from here. If you've added my feed, you should automatically receive a notification within a few minutes of this (*this) post actually being posted.
The witch evaluates my RSS feed on intervals and if there are new items, it uses that information in those entries to generate new notifications. There really isn't anything too fancy about it, but I hope it works out well.
I spent WAY too much time wresting with E4X parsing only because I forgot that I am dealing with a namespace and I thought I was going absolutely crazy. Anyway, I hope that this thing works, if you're at all interested in one of these for yourself (if you have a feed of your own), perhaps I'll release it.
All you'd need to do is set up your dynamic publishing and populate a POST variables with your username, password, and topic. Of course the title and link are dynamically discerned and used for the notification(s).
I am not sure how quick I can make calls for notifications, so a 30 second delay between them seems safe enough.
I have tested this out and it's working just fine. Of course if I change the title of a post, you'll get another notification for that item. I think that's fair enough as that will probably almost never happen.
The witch evaluates my RSS feed on intervals and if there are new items, it uses that information in those entries to generate new notifications. There really isn't anything too fancy about it, but I hope it works out well.
I spent WAY too much time wresting with E4X parsing only because I forgot that I am dealing with a namespace and I thought I was going absolutely crazy. Anyway, I hope that this thing works, if you're at all interested in one of these for yourself (if you have a feed of your own), perhaps I'll release it.
All you'd need to do is set up your dynamic publishing and populate a POST variables with your username, password, and topic. Of course the title and link are dynamically discerned and used for the notification(s).
I am not sure how quick I can make calls for notifications, so a 30 second delay between them seems safe enough.
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