Feedreader which provides toast alerts when new items come , theres also a feed reader and some other cool things


install it then click a plus menu and select rssreader -> Configure... and add a feed.

http://svn.thedt.net/release/rssreader.plsc

(subversion stuff here http://svn.thedt.net/www/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/scripts/...pts/dt/rssreader/ )

every week this will check for updates and if it finds any it will prompt you to download it.

Todo
- make two interfaces one "novice" mode and one "advanced" mode for adding/editing feeds
- a "remind me later" button for update interface

Known Bugs



Change log
Version 1.1.8
- now fully translatable using the xml files in the /languages subfolder and a language chooser in the options
- added an option to stop logging new feeds in event viewer
- added "133t" language option

Version 1.1.7
- Fixed some feeds that the xmlhttprequest didnt auto turn into xml eg http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml
- Improved the html parser
- added two default feeds for first time installers , the Plus Live site feed and the Script DB one.

Version 1.1.6
- Fixed the url replacing regular expression now it will replace urls where href isnt the first attribute.
- When sending articles from the Feed reader messages are send in groups of 1000 characters (using my new sendPartedMessage function)


Version 1.1.5
- Added Ability to enter username/password for feeds that use HTTP basic auth
- Improved errors that show when adding a script.
- when adding a script if it needs a login it will auto show the window and then redownload once you've finished

Version 1.1.3
- Added Send to Contact in feed viewer
- Added a send script to contact button in the about window
- improved html stripping function

Version 1.1.2
- started cleaning the code , all functions in rssreader.js and window.js now have comments
- a new url security window will show up if a toast url isn't a real one (eg is a bad system command or something...)

Version 1.1.1
- Increased width of feedViewer
- added about window
- added commands (/feedreload , /feedchecknow , /feedshow , /feedconfig , /feedpsdmconfig , /feedabout )
- added "check feeds now" menu item

Version 1.1.0 ( yay for skipping versions)
- Added update PSM to news item feature
- fixed a deleting feed bug which left a node after being deleted

Version 1.0.8
- Added ability to enable/disable feeds via checkboxes
- Fixed toast callbacks after api change

Version: 1.0.7
- Added Feed viewer ... to access click the plus! icon and select rssreader -> View Feeds...
(see screenshot below)

Version: 1.0.5
-Fixed mimetype problem with responseXML not loading ... now i force it to
-Fixed a extremly dodgy cacheing bug , would cause the cache to be only valid every second download.

Version: 1.0.4
- Added Atom support
- Added rss RDF support
- Improved parsing of html in toasts
- Fixed auto update showing before user is signed in (so user cant install it) - thanks absorbation for finding it.

Version: 1.0.3
-Added email me updated feeds if my status is not online (busy/away/on the phone/out to lunch/appear offline)
-Added checkbox to disable/enable auto updates
- changed rss timer to a Timer.setInterval

Version: 1.0.2
- Id's didnt get created with numbers in them , but in the add window code they did (thanks chestah for finding this)
- added clickable toasts to preview
- fixed html entitys in preview toasts


Version : 1.0.1
updated to use the different toasts so i could use formatting.
fixed the cache dies bug  , so you shouldnt get anymore toast floods.
'title' element is now shown in toasts and bolded , the next release will have an option to configure this.


Screenshots of main window , a toast and the add feed window


Update psm window



Update window


Feed viewer

Incredibly handy, nice work.

Great work -dt-

what's the RSS (if there is one) for the mess.be news

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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Originally posted by Jellings
what's the RSS (if there is one) for the mess.be news

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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messenger web news still doesn't work mate

http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml

with the mess.be one it gives an error when i click "parse" (error: 403: forbidden) *confused* is there a way to be able to get rss from mess.be or will it always be forbidden?

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Originally posted by Jellings

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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latest threads feed http://shoutbox.menthix.net/backend.php?get=latestthreads

If I use the edit button to edit a feed in current feeds
I can only use the 'Add' button to confirm my modification which does not modify the original feed but create a new one
Is it a bug?

Oh I'm loving this its awesome as great work

Nice one!!!

Doesn't work...
Weebls-Stuff.com gives error when parsing (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php gives Error: cannot find any items, www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php without the http just keeps downloading)
Mess.be RSS feed gives 403...

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Originally posted by TomSilver
Doesn't work...
Weebls-Stuff.com gives error when parsing (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php gives Error: cannot find any items, www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php without the http just keeps downloading)
Mess.be RSS feed gives 403...

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Originally posted by TomSilver
Doesn't work...
Weebls-Stuff.com gives error when parsing (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php gives Error: cannot find any items, www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php without the http just keeps downloading)
Mess.be RSS feed gives 403...

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Originally posted by TomSilver
www.weebls-stuff.com/misc/rss/all.php

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http://www.tweakers.net/feeds/nieuws.xml doesn't work.. "Error 0: Unknown"

But its a very very nice script!

Edit: It looks like the script has problems with RSS 2.0 feeds. My feed and the feed above are both RSS 2.0

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Originally posted by aNILEator
messenger web news still doesn't work mate

http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml

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This is really a great script, thanks a lot

But I have a small request to you: if you right-click the toats pop-up window (to close the pop-up), or click on the [x] button on the pop-up, can you please make your plugin mark that particular news item 'read' so that it won't display again?

The situation now is: so long you have not left-clicked on a pop-up, it keeps showing up every something minutes. No way to turn it off rather then left click it, but that opens browser; yes, I know that I can cnage the left-click behaviour, but I DO want it to open browser I only don't want to read ALL the news I get, just some.. So I want to be able to stop the pop-up from appearing twice by right-clicking it, or by clicking on the [x] button

I found one more bug: no idea what causes that, but sometimes nothing happens when I want to acces preferences. Simply nothing happens when I click "Configure..." under Plus! menu

For the rest: really a great job!

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Originally posted by Pure_BY
This is really a great script, thanks a lot

But I have a small request to you: if you right-click the toats pop-up window (to close the pop-up), or click on the [x] button on the pop-up, can you please make your plugin mark that particular news item 'read' so that it won't display again?

The situation now is: so long you have not left-clicked on a pop-up, it keeps showing up every something minutes. No way to turn it off rather then left click it, but that opens browser; yes, I know that I can cnage the left-click behaviour, but I DO want it to open browser I only don't want to read ALL the news I get, just some.. So I want to be able to stop the pop-up from appearing twice by right-clicking it, or by clicking on the [x] button

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Originally posted by rattenfanger
I agree with that. But with some differences.. When I saw a popup I don't want to see it another time. Maybe you can make some settings for that?

-Show it only ones
-Show it until I click it left or click the X

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http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml is STILL not working, using 1.1.9 also RSS reader keeps spawning the pop ups that i've seen before (mainly from pspupdates)

oh and in 1.1.9 you've buggered up the add feed window, got some random square icons

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Originally posted by aNILEator
http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml is STILL not working, using 1.1.8 also RSS reader keeps spawning the pop ups that i've seen before (mainly from pspupdates)

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see updated post ^^

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Originally posted by aNILEator
http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml is STILL not working, using 1.1.9 also RSS reader keeps spawning the pop ups that i've seen before (mainly from pspupdates)

oh and in 1.1.9 you've buggered up the add feed window, got some random square icons

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Hi, this is my french translation

but lot of strings are not translated (bug ?):









Edit : also "Last updated" in feed viewer.

Edit : Language file updated [04:42]

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Originally posted by mickael9
Hi, this is my french translation

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Why not add OPML import (and export) feature ?

Great work dt, I'll translate just for fun

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Originally posted by Nitrolinken
Great work dt, I'll translate just for fun

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Originally posted by -dt-

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Originally posted by Nitrolinken
Great work dt, I'll translate just for fun

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just wait im uploading a new version now...

edit:
redownload Ive fixed a few translation things

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Originally posted by Nitrolinken
BTW, Norwegian translation is not possible... Because æ, ø and å isn't Unicode characters...

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hi dt, thanks so much for rssreader..it's really useful

Anyway, i'm not sure if it's just me but 1.1.9 does not load automatically again when the MSNLive! program is restarted.. I've to enable it again from the msgplus preferences..

I've updated my french translation

There are other not translated windows :





why not use Interface files (rssinterface.xml and updateInterface.xml) as translation files and a strings.xml file for error messages/toasts ?

Thanks for the updated translation

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Originally posted by mickael9
why not use Interface files (rssinterface.xml and updateInterface.xml) as translation files and a strings.xml file for error messages/toasts ?

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Originally posted by amethyst
Anyway, i'm not sure if it's just me but 1.1.9 does not load automatically again when the MSNLive! program is restarted.. I've to enable it again from the msgplus preferences..

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Originally posted by -dt-
because then i would have to have like 5 copies of the interface files (which are pretty big) and if i updated one interface i would have to go through and edit each one , keeping them as strings in a different file is smaller and works nicer..... just i keep missing some

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code:

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var sNewTitle = "My new title from language file";
var xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
var node;

xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.load("rssinterface.xml");
node = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode('/Interfaces/Window[@Id="rssReaderConf"]/Attributes/Caption/text()');
node.text = sNewTitle;

node = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode('/Interfaces/Window[@Id="rssReaderConf"]/TitleBar/Title/Text/text()');
node.text = sNewTitle;


xmlDoc.save("rssinterface.xml");

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code:

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<Window Id="rssReaderConf" Version="1">
    <Attributes>
        <Caption>My new title from language file</Caption>
    </Attributes>
    <TitleBar>
        <Title><Text>My new title from language file</Text></Title>
    </TitleBar>
    ...

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Can you make something that says whether an item has been read or not? Like in the feed view window have an icon out beside them so we would know quickly about what has/hasn't been read.

Hi all...Just for my pure pleasure I've done also the italian translation for thin useful script...

Bye all, good works

PS: hope i've not done so much errors...

Mine now stops and i have to go into the scripts section to turn it on can you please fix this bug im running the latest version of the feeder

Why does it always stop

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Originally posted by -dt-
Todo
- make two interfaces one "novice" mode and one "advanced" mode for adding/editing feeds

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I have a small bug... When signing out of WLM, and signing in again... this script is "disabled". In Plus! preferences menu it is still selected ( [v] sign is there), but at the same time it says: "stopped" for some reason. I need to deselect it ( [ ] ), than select it again ( [v] ), and than it's enabled again. This happens every time I sign-in, and only with the new version -- 1.1.9 . Did not have that bug with older versions.

The psm option has never worked for me...

* wj kicks -DT- again for not fixing the bugs he said he did

It's still showing events multiple times.

the script is brill great work ill use it forever now

Loving the RSSreader but Just wondering whats changed in version 1.2.0

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Originally posted by Deano
Loving the RSSreader but Just wondering whats changed in version 1.2.0

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I got an automatic update for 1.2.0 Nothing in the changelog yet...

kl script

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Originally posted by rattenfanger
I got an automatic update for 1.2.0 Nothing in the changelog yet...

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I fixed a few bugs =p ill update the changelog soon , sorry i kind of forgot i updated it

hello. thank you for this script, it's very useful.

i would like make a suggestion. there should be an option to disable viewing feeds when our status is set to busy. i mean, in certain cirumstances it doesn't make any difference, but it's very annoying to see feeds when watching a video, for example, and the only way to avoid it is to disable the script or end the session.

edit: adding a command like /feedbusyoff would be great to turn this option on and off without having to open the configuration window every time.

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Originally posted by Gonçalo F.
there should be an option to disable viewing feeds when our status is set to busy. i mean, in certain cirumstances it doesn't make any difference, but it's very annoying to see feeds when watching a video, for example, and the only way to avoid it is to disable the script or end the session.

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I'm looking for a way to have my Contact name updated automatically everytime I update my blog... (as an alternative to MSN spaces...)

so everytime I post something new, my contact name (not PSM) is updated lik so....

DMZ -=- [My URL] -=- My last blog entry: [blogTimeStamp] -=-

Hi !
I've a problem : RSSReader never update !
Here is my RSS link : http://a06.goldzoneweb.info/blog/rss.php, i put it in the script, it update when i Add it, but never update after...so i see the autoupdate clock work ( because the hours change in the "View feeds" option ) but it don't read the feed

( sorry for my english, i'm french )

Thanks for the great work mate.
Love it.

i always get an error when i click on the clickable title of a feed. see attached screenshot

ins4ne: Is that only for the links in the Plus! news feed, or also in other feeds like for example the Plus! scripts feed?

If its only the news feed, that is probably because of an error in the feed: http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=68...d=751422#pid751422

Patch? fix it!

aha!! like you said. only for the news feed. how to fix it?

sorry for double post but noticed some things. i love the rssreader script and thats why i posts this stuff. found an error. see screenshot.



ill post more if i find any other erros and typos

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Originally posted by ins4ne
aha!! like you said. only for the news feed. how to fix it?

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Originally posted by -dt-
you dont =p you wait for patchou to fix the feed

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Originally posted by -dt-
and pfft at the typo =p

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dit: If you're changing things anyway, change the scripts feed URL to http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/feed/ . The old one will still work, but new one looks nicer .

What if I get Error #407, Proxy authentication required?  I have no proxy, so what ports do I need to open on my firewall for RSS (I've never done it before.)  I am assuming that the default feeds should work without these errors. . .

Hey

I'm trying to add my facebook 'notifications' RSS feed. I paste it in and click parse yet it just says Downloading...for ages and does nothing.

I've tried other RSS feeds and it does the same.

Any ideas why?

The script don't work while parsing !

when i click "Parse" when trying to add a new feed it stays like this:

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Status: Downloading...please wait...

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Hi everyone!

I can't add any feeds

I open the config dialog
press the add button
copy the link, and press Parse button

then the script write this message:
---  Status: Downloading ...please wait..

and nothing happens than...

If i try to press the add button, it gives a lot off error messages
like please fill rss nodes to show...

I tried many rss feeds, noone works
I'm wery said...

Please help me, what is wrong?

rss feeds i was try example: http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/browse/rss.php
http://index.hu/x?t=/24ora/rss/
http://www.xtvi.com/rss.php

thank you!

boci

I translated the language file to hungarian!

I can put rss feeds to rssConfig.xml manualy.

And it's works, but not too elegant

I don't no, what is the problem anyway.