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indeed it's much simpler to grab the rss rdf file with LWP::Simple && parse with XML::RSS :)
code example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple;
my $news = ( 'slashdot' => ['Slashdot',
                          'http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf']
# add some more rss news sites ..
            );

foreach my $news ( keys %news) {
        $rsspage=get $news{$news}[1];
        print "$news{$news}[0]:\n";
        $rss = new XML::RSS;
        $rss->parse($rsspage);
        foreach my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}}) {
                print "\t$item->{'title'}\n";
                print "\t$item->{'link'}\n\n";
        }
}
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just add the timer for your convinience :)

In reply to Re: RE: Slashdot Headline Grabber for *nix by maksl
in thread Slashdot Headline Grabber for *nix by czyrda

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