CincomSmalltalkWiki: BottomFeederScripting

Bob Westergaard put together a simple scripting plugin for BottomFeeder awhile back. I've enhanced it to include SAX drivers (which makes script development a little easier). You can grab the tool this way:

Load the RSSScriptRunner bundle from the public store
Grab this zip file. It contains a parcel with the script tools. You can place the .pcl file in the 'plugins' directory for Bf, and create a 'scripts' directory - or load it into a dev image. If you do the latter, I'd recommend updating to the latest rev from Store

Once you grab the tool, what next? Well, you can create scripts that create local rss files, and then subscribe to them in Bf. Here are some example scripts; if you end up developing any, please feel free to contribute!

Right click and save these scripts

Or, just grab a zip file with all the scripts.

Here's a simple sample script - once it produces the rss file, you can subscribe with a local file URL.

| writer content str rest out |
"creates the item"
contentBlock := [:builder :chunk |
	| stream |
	stream := ReadStream on: chunk.
	stream throughAll: 'SRC="'.
	builder link: (stream upTo: $").
	builder title: 'User Friendly For: ', Date today printString.
	builder description: '<a href="', chunk.
	builder pubDate: Timestamp now].

"main script"
out := 'userFriendly.xml' asFilename writeStream.
writer := RSS20_SAXWriter new output: out.
writer 
     prolog;
     startRSS;
     startChannel;
     title: 'User Friendly Feed';
     link: 'http://www.userfriendly.org/';
     description: 'User Friendly Feed';
     pubDate: Timestamp now;
     startItem;
     title: 'User Friendly For: ', Date today printString.
content := 'http://www.userfriendly.org/' asURI valueStream contents.
str := content readStream.
str throughAll: 'CARTOON FOR'.
str upToAll: 'href="'.
rest := str throughAll: '</A>'.
contentBlock value: writer value: rest.
writer 
     endItem;
     endChannel;
     endRSS.
out close.