These are CGI scripts. Setup in your local WWW server.

= Up-to-date RSS feed =

To reduce server load, the [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rss RSS feed] is cached.
Therefore the RSS feed is delayed by a few hours.
But the [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rc;raw=1 text feed] is up to date.

Because my favorite RSS/Atom aggregator cannot handle TXT feeds, I created TXT -> RSS converter script.

<pre>
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'rss/2.0'
require 'time'
require 'open-uri'

def parse(block)
  hash = {}
  block.split(/\n/).map{|line| k, v = line.split(/: /,2); hash[k]=v}
  hash
end

text = open("http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rc;raw=1").read
header, *items = text.split(/\n\n/)

feed = RSS::Rss.new("2.0")

header = parse(header)

chan = RSS::Rss::Channel::new
chan.title=header["title"]
chan.description = header["description"]
chan.link = header["link"]

feed.channel = chan

for i in items
  i = parse(i)
  item = RSS::Rss::Channel::Item.new
  item.title = i["title"]
  item.link = i["link"]
  author = item.author = i["generator"]
  item.description = (i["description"] || "") + "<br><br>(by #{author})"
  item.date = Time.parse(i["last-modified"])
  
  feed.channel.items << item
end

puts "Content-Type: application/xml"
puts
puts feed
</pre>

-- [[rubikitch]]

= Up-to-date RSS feed with minor edits =

Replace 
<pre>
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rc;raw=1
</pre>
with
<pre>
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rc;days=7;all=0;showedit=1;raw=1
</pre>
in above script.

-- [[rubikitch]]

[new]
I don't understand. Are you parsing the HTML? Why are you not using the TXT feed with the showedit=1 parameter? 

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=rc;days=7;all=0;showedit=1;raw=1

-- AlexSchroeder

[new]
Yes, that script parses the HTML.
I simply did not know TXT feed with minor edits. thanks.
  
-- [[rubikitch]]

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