If you aren't into OPML and RSS you can skip this post. 😄#
I have yet to organize all the bits going into my next project, the one I've been working on all year (so far). It doesn't even have a codename yet, which is unusual for me, I usually come up with them at the beginning. It will eventually have one. Anyway at this time I don't have a good place on GitHub to put the bits, the data and scripts, so I'll hang them off this post on my blog until a better place shows up. #
I wanted a really good example of an OPML subscription list for the RSS-related project. The canonical example is the collection of feeds for the NY Times. They have them all assembled on a single page. I did a view source, and saw that it's good HTML. I selected the part of the HTML with the feed list, and opened it in an HTML source editor, and cleaned it up until it validated. #
Then in Frontier, I wrote a script to read the file into an object database structure, and then wrote a script to create a flat OPML subscription list with the data. I opened the outline in Drummer, and organized it the way they have it organized on their site. I then opened the outline in my feed reader app and copied a few of the feeds from the NYT list, pasted them into the list for the test app, and it worked. 😄#
Now we also have a current, complete and well-organized list of the NYT feeds. It should prove useful in the work to come.#
Last update: Tuesday May 10, 2022; 5:54 PM EDT.
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