Question

Is it possible to include a remote RSS feed (from a different server) in a twiki topic? and then style it so that it looks pretty?

Environment

-- MattWilkie - 10 May 2005

Answer

Not here on TWiki.org at this time due to a SourceForge hosting limitation. This should be solved in the next 2 weeks or so.

But why INCLUDE an RSS feed when you can use the HeadlinesPlugin to display a feed from another server?

-- PeterThoeny - 11 May 2005

'cause I couldn't find it. I added 'remote' to the topic to help other people who might have the same in-head keywords as I do.

Thank you WillNorris for quickly updating HeadlinesPlugin to work with DEVELOP!

For the 'pretty' part, I'm using the following (there is still room for improvement (wrapped for legibility)):

%HEADLINES{"http://del.icio.us/rss/maphew/wiki"  
header="<dt><b><a href='$channellink'>Matt's latest Wiki Bookmarks:</a></b>"  
format="<p><dd><a href='$link' style='text-decoration:none'>
$title<a/> - $description" }%

Results: (if the plugin is installed)

Matt's latest Wiki Bookmarks:

Ubuntu Wiki (community-edited website) -

Rich Text Editing With Dojo - A new editor that adhered to strict user-experience and reliability principles was needed [dissatisfied with fckedit, tinymce, htmlarea, etc.]. The results are the Dojo Rich Text, Toolbar, and Editor controls. JotSpot has generously made this work Open So

Strange Sleep » Blog Archive » GTD TiddlyWiki + Windows Active Desktop -

TWiki - Enterprise Collaboration Platform & Wiki - ...seems kind of silly to be bookmarking all these other wiki sites but not the one I actually use, so, here it is

Rhizome - a Wiki-like content management and delivery system that exposes the entire site -- content, structure, and metadata as editable RDF. This means that instead of just creating a site with URLs that correspond to a page of HTML, with Rhizome you can create U

GTDTiddlyWiki - your simple client side wiki - a TiddlyWiki application focussed on "getting things done" (a la the Dean Allen book)

Zim - a desktop wiki - a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl; aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop; every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup.

AsciiDoc - Text based document generation - You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.

pwyky: A Python Wiki - a ~30KB single file wiki in Python. It's very easy to install, requires minimal configuration, and uses a simple structured text format. Pwyky was written by Sean B. Palmer, the same guy who wrote wypy, the 18-line Python wiki. After writing one of the wo

WikiWig : a wiki wysiwyg ! - Features include: richtext editing (wysiwyg ), image manager, conflict prevention, automatic saves, multilingual, automatic installs on most hosts, versionning, email notification

-- MattWilkie - 13 May 2005