NewsIsFree agent

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NewsIsFree(http://www.newsisfree/) is a news aggregator which provides XML RPC interface to access news. I wrote a simple agent for that.
For detail, see http://www.newsisfree.com/webservice.php
ps. Registration is required for the snippet.

use RPC::XML::Client;
use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/;
use POSIX qw/strftime/;

my $user = '';
my $pass = '';

{
    local $/;
    open FAV, "fav";
    @favorites = grep {$_} split /\n/, <FAV>;
    close FAV;
}

$cli = RPC::XML::Client->new('http://www.newsisfree.com:80/RPC');

for $fav (@favorites){
    @arg = (
          RPC::XML::string->new($user),
          RPC::XML::string->new(md5_hex $pass),
          RPC::XML::int->new($fav)
            );
    $req = RPC::XML::request->new('hpe.getSource', @arg);
    $resp = $cli->send_request($req);

    next unless ref $resp;
    print '='x70,$/,$/;
    print $resp->{title}->value, $/,$/;
    print '='x70,$/,$/;
    for ( sort { $b->{date}->value <=> $a->{date}->value } @{$resp->{i
+tems}}){
        print $_->{title}->value, $/;
        print $_->{link}->value, $/;
        print POSIX::strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S", localtime $_-
+>{date}->value),$/x2;

    }
}