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#news on irc.perl.org - The Perl News Channel

jbisbee on 2006-07-12T03:29:34

I'd like to formally announce #news on irc.perl.org. It's be up and running for awhile, but after YAPC::NA 2006, I replaced all my code with plagger and a yaml config file.

Currently rssbot watchings the following Perl sites and notfies the channel with updates

  • CPAN (search.cpan.org rss not pause uploads)
  • AnnoCPAN
  • CPAN Ratings
  • use Perl
  • use Perl Journals
  • Perl Monks (Newest Nodes)
  • Perl Jobs
  • The Perl Foundation
  • The Perl Foundation News (Moveable Type - Steering Committe Blog)
  • Perl.com
  • The Perl NOC
  • Perlcast
  • The Perl Summer of Code 2006
some sample output from the channel (minus the URLs)... 
20:50:19 * rssbot [perlcast] Perlcast Interview with Andy Hunt on "Practices of an Agile Developer"
20:50:19 * rssbot [perljournals] [schwern] Julian Cash is a genius.
21:00:29 * rssbot [cpan] SWF-Chart-1.4
21:00:29 * rssbot [perljournals] [jmcada] Practices of an Agile Developer
21:10:22 * rssbot [perlmonks] [PerceptiveJohn] Perl On Server
22:00:44 * rssbot [cpan] MP3-Find-0.06
22:30:31 * rssbot [perlmonks] [Petruchio] Who would win in a swordfight?
22:40:34 * rssbot [cpan] CPAN-Mini-0.500
22:40:37 * rssbot [cpan] Perl-Critic-Bangs-0.01
23:00:17 * rssbot [perlmonks] [ehdonhon] PITTSBURGH PERL WORKSHOP: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
23:00:17 * rssbot [perljobs] Perl Developer for Test Automation
23:20:14 * rssbot [perlmonks] [llee] windows events
Hope you see you in #news!

use.perl.org journals?

Alias on 2006-07-12T14:30:30

Hrm... the use.perl.org journals don't seem to be working, at least not within a 4-5 hours timeframe.

Re:use.perl.org journals?

jbisbee on 2006-07-12T15:27:08

The Perl journals RSS feed seems to be broken at the moment. (You can blame me because I asked pudge to change it to add content)

http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=top&content_type=rss

Re:use.perl.org journals?

jbisbee on 2006-07-13T03:02:39

Wasn't a broken feed, but in plagger URLs need to be unique. The cool thing about plagger is that there are all sorts of "hooks" to get things to work! So I just use the feed from the search http://use.perl.org/search.pl?op=journal&content_type=rss and wrote a custom plugin that switched things up a bit.

I also wrote a CustomFeed handler for CPAN Ratings to show the actual rating *, **, ***, etc in the title.