Browse a RSS feed in Alfred

[Florian]

Hey guys,

 

So I've been making this little extension. It works quite simply really. Just open the script, enter a valid RSS feed (must be xml) and your good to go! 

 

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14050630/RSS.alfredworkflow

 

Don't hesitate to ask for anything.

 

[MrClaye]

AWESOME. You really got a good idea, thanks !

[jdfwarrior]

Another neat way to extend from this would be to allow for multiple feeds. Check multiples, sirt them in the list by time/date. Could make a command to list all feed sources, set a modifier key + action to delete that source, etc

[Florian]

Yes but that would actually require some work Or to do a google reader based extension. I'm lazy =D

[MrClaye]

You should improve from time to time this workflow, there's potential and this is really cool and useful to check news really quickly !

I've a question but I already know the answer I guess : Is it possible to script something that will open an object in the backgroud without quit Alfred ?

[jdfwarrior]

You should improve from time to time this workflow, there's potential and this is really cool and useful to check news really quickly !

I've a question but I already know the answer I guess : Is it possible to script something that will open an object in the backgroud without quit Alfred ?

 

You can do anything with Alfred 2

[Florian]

Well if I understand right what MrClaye is asking, it'd be to open smth on the background on a user's action, right ? That, I don't think, is possible. Otherwise, yes it is.

 

And I do change this workflow sometimes. The link is always at the last revision. I just don't really signal it because I don't do anything major on it. Honestly, the only big change that could happen at that point would be a feed management thing. I may do that. I may also be really lazy But sometimes I do get carried away ad do stuff like my Transmission workflow !

[CarlosNZ]

Hey, first of all, this is a great workflow. I've only just tried it out, and it's perfect for certain kinds of information.

 

I'm just having problems with the rss feed from Pocket. And yes, I've definitely got my personal feed unauthenticated. I can download it just fine using "curl" in bash, and the xml looks pretty standard.

 

The only thing I can see that seems unusual is the CDATA tags round the title:

 

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Alfred.app: How to Add Tasks to Remember the Milk]]></title>
<category>Unread</category>
<link>https://zippykid.com/2011/11/30/using-alfred-app-to-add-things-to-your-remember-the-milk-rtm-lists</link>
<guid>https://zippykid.com/2011/11/30/using-alfred-app-to-add-things-to-your-remember-the-milk-rtm-lists</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:50:19 -0600</pubDate>
</item>

Could that possibly be messing it up? Or is there anything else that you can think of that might be problematic?

[Florian]

Try and set $display_subtitle to false in the settings (top of the script). Right now it is looking for something that doesn't seem to be in your <item>. 

 

If that doesn't work, i'll try and do some real debugging

[CarlosNZ]

Alas, no joy.

 

But I notice now that there is no <description> tag in there, which your instructions say is required. Is something that's easy to work around?

[Florian]

Well yeah but it looks for a <description> only if the $display_subtitle flag is set to true.

 

I don't know whats wrong here. Just took a look at my code. Seems pretty basic. Poor too. But should work. 

[politicus]

Hi Florian, 

 

I just tried to add a script filter that fetches an Hacker News RSS feed. 

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

 

It fetches the feed but when I try to open one entry in Chrome, I get an about:page. 

 

I tried do set $display_subtitle to false, no joy.