Can you tell I’m bored and unemployed?!
Yesterday I blogged about the Jabber bot, which, by the way, has more available feeds, including Planet Gnome and Planet Debian (rss-list to get a complete list). Today I decided to keep playing with the Planets and decided to implement an idea Joey had for Planet Debian.
I installed and configured rss2email and set up two different mailing lists; one for Planet Ubuntu and another one for Planet Ubuntu Users.
You can subscribe using the web-based form at: rss2email.ubuntuweblogs.org
Even though messages can be in HTML format, I decided to go with plain text. I would really like to hear someone else’s opinion on which format to use.
If you have any recommendations, please, let me know. Comments are open again, but only if people start behaving. If you’re going to say something stupid please don’t write anything at all.
P.S.: Stephan Hermann, thanks buddy! ;)
Update: rss2email started to freak out, for some unkown reason. It appears to be a problem of feedparser, who unfortunately, has been dead for quite some time. I’ll contact the author to see if he can help me out.
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Awesome news! I love the new bot and it keeps exposing me to blogs I wouldn’t have known about. Of course I end up adding them to both my RSS list in Thunderbird as well as to my Google Reader list.
Heheh! Good to hear you enjoyed it ;) Let me know if there is something you would like to see added/changed.
Actually I’m getting 503 errors trying to send rss-list to the bot to get the new lists to start watching
Bot rebooted. Please try again. I’ve tried this on a test user and worked … Try restarting your Jabber client.
Thanks for the heads up!
Hmm. Completely restarted my comp, as well as Pidgin and Firefox/Gmail but I’m seeing the bot as offline.
RE: HTML vs. Plain Text :
Why not both ? either via two separate feeds or as HTML with a text mime part.
BostonPeng,
this is weird. I added support for GoogleTalk, which wasn’t loaded before. See if that fixed your problem.
I rebooted the bot and even restarted the machine hosting it.
Did it stop working today? I added a couple more feeds, but I doubt that’s the problem.
imbrandon,
the way rss2email was developed I have to choose if I want plain text or HTML; there is no way (that I know of) to have them both supported.
HTML with a text mime part would be good, and I wouldn’t need to create 2 extra discussion lists, but I need to check if that’s possible.
The bot’s offline now, but when I fired up Pidgin I had three messages about Ubuntu Planet from the bot waiting for me. So far I’m having the bot tell me about posts from Ubuntu Planet and Ubuntuweblogs. I haven’t had a chance to add Planet Debian to my watch list yet.
Still getting 503 error trying to send “rss-list” to the bot via Pidgin/GoogleTalk. The error windows says:
XMPP Message Error
Message delivery to bot@ubuntuweblogs.org/gozerbot failed: (Code 503)
My primary interest would be in the jabberbot tool. I know that html can be embedded in the xml in xmpp, however I have reservations on getting HTML in my IMs.
I think it depends upon what you mean by HTML in the message. I would like to avoid tags such as ‘bold’ ‘italics’ ‘emphasis’ ‘underline’ ‘h1-76′ and the like. Similarly I do not want to be dealing with style sheets and font formating within my jabber client. (Currently Pidgin, but sometimes other clients as well.)
That said, I personally would like two links embedded, possibly up to 4. The two I would definately like embedded are a link to the story, and a link to the story author’s blog. I.e. the permalink for the story, and what should be the base link for the blog the story is included in.
Two other possible links would be one to add the author if they are a jabber user as well. and another that would potentially link to the planet or feed the blog ended up in, i.e. planet gnome, planet debian, planet ubuntu, ubuntuweblog.
Of course I got just about this far when I realized you were asking about HTML in rss2email, so some of this may not make a lot of sense there. (Such as link to add the author if they are a jabber.) But I will admit that I would still like to see something like the above from the jabberbot. As it is I have to go over to some other rss reader to find the story that I thought looked like it might be interesting from the jabberbot.
Good work all around though.
Rusty, thank you for your comment.
I understand what you’re saying and you sure made some good points. I’ll see if I can work on them.
BostonPeng,
This doesn’t seem to be a problem with the bot itself, but with the Jabber service installed on the server. I’ll see if I can sort all the problems out.
Thanks!
I don’t know if this helps or not, but I’m not seeing the bot as online, even when it’s sending me updates. This could contribute to my messages not going through.
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