[pmwiki-users] Writing to a page from an RSS feed

[Eemeli Aro]

2009/8/19 Chris Lott <chris at chrislott.org>:
> Is anyone aware of a recipe for-- or scripts that would accomplish--
> reading an RSS feed (let's say a twitter search feed) and continually
> adding that to a wiki page? I don't mean displaying the RSS feed in
> the page, but actually writing content that could later be edited...

I haven't really looked into it, but I gather the Blogger API as
implemented by <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/XMLRPC> does
something a bit like this, as the interface uses Atom to talk with the
system (see <http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html>
for more).

But that's XML-RPC communication where the external party is a client
and hence wouldn't get the blog/wiki to actively go and read an RSS
feed. You might be able to use one of the existing PmWiki feedreaders
to do your bidding, though.

It's a rather interesting idea, mind. How would you handle updated
entries that have already been written to PmWiki and possibly locally
modified?

eemeli