XML::RSS::Headline::Fark(3pm)

Usage

Strip out the extra Fark redirect URL and strip out the various [blahblah] blocks in the headline

    use XML::RSS::Feed;
    use XML::RSS::Headline::Fark;
    use LWP::Simple qw(get);
    my $feed = XML::RSS::Feed->new(
        name  => "fark",
        url   => "http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss",
        hlobj => "XML::RSS::Headline::Fark",
    );
    while (1) {
        $feed->parse(get($feed->url));
        print $_->headline . "\n" for $feed->late_breaking_news;
        sleep($feed->delay); 
    }

Here is the before output in #news on irc.perl.org

    <rssbot>  - [Sad] Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer
    <rssbot>    http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=1200026&location=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022

and here is the updated output

    <rssbot>  - Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer
    <rssbot>    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408022

Version

2.2

Mutaited method

$headline->item( $item ): Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by XML::RSS.

Support

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc XML::RSS::Headline::Fark

You can also look for information at:

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AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

<http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

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CPAN Ratings

<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-RSS-Feed>

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RT: CPAN's request tracker

<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-RSS-Feed>

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Search CPAN

<http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for their help, guidance, patience, and bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and give good, honest feedback.

Copyright & license

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 4 times.