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  • Implementing a news feed

    From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Monday, September 30, 2019 04:41:07
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    I have set up a telnet link to Inkbb who has a newsfeed page from CNN etc
    How can I implement this in mystic I assume it's a python script that accesses rss feeds

    Thanks

    Richard

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Monday, September 30, 2019 14:04:54
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    I'm using a rss python script
    I've installed python 2.7 and I think I have installed correctly beutifulsoup4

    The script runs from my mystic doors menu
    I get the error cannot find beautifulsoup module
    Any idea
    Regards
    Richard

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  • From Paul Hayton@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 11:45:11
    From: nospam.Paul.Hayton@f100.n770.z3.binkp.net

    On 30 Sep 2019 at 01:04p, Richard Fairman pondered and said...

    I'm using a rss python script
    I've installed python 2.7 and I think I have installed correctly beutifulsoup4

    are you looking for a gated feed of news to FTN packets?
    If yes, I can help with a service I offer within fsxNet that feeds nodes who wish to take Usenet to them via a gateway I run in/out of news.bbs.nz
    There are others within Fido who also offer a gateway services too.

    Not aware of beautifulsoup but presume it requires you get news/soup style packets to open from a NNTP feed?

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  • From Netsurge@1:229/2 to All on Monday, September 30, 2019 19:12:58
    From: nospam.Netsurge@f101.n229.z1.binkp.net

    are you looking for a gated feed of news to FTN packets?
    If yes, I can help with a service I offer within fsxNet that feeds nodes who wish to take Usenet to them via a gateway I run in/out of news.bbs.nz There are others within Fido who also offer a gateway services too.

    Not aware of beautifulsoup but presume it requires you get news/soup
    style packets to open from a NNTP feed?


    I think he is trying to get an rss feed via python.

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  • From Netsurge@1:229/2 to All on Monday, September 30, 2019 19:14:18
    From: nospam.Netsurge@f101.n229.z1.binkp.net

    I'm using a rss python script
    I've installed python 2.7 and I think I have installed correctly beutifulsoup4

    The script runs from my mystic doors menu
    I get the error cannot find beautifulsoup module
    Any idea

    You need to install the beautifulsoup python module. pip install
    beautifulsoup4 should get you going.

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  • From Paul Hayton@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 13:19:21
    From: nospam.Paul.Hayton@f100.n770.z3.binkp.net

    On 30 Sep 2019 at 06:12p, Netsurge pondered and said...

    I think he is trying to get an rss feed via python.

    Ah OK, thanks Frank.

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 05:08:33
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    Got beautiful soup working

    Soup is reading the rss page but I'm getting the error

    Can't read the items from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
    Done

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, October 02, 2019 04:59:24
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    Given up with soup
    Now using a python script from smooth
    Worked first time
    Regards

    Richard

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, October 02, 2019 04:52:30
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    Given up with soup
    Now using a screen script from smooth
    Worked first time
    Regards

    Richard

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Thursday, October 03, 2019 16:09:46
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    I have modified the python script to pull in a bbc rss feed
    It's only pulling in 3 topics when the rss file has a lot more
    How can I fix this
    Any python experts out there
    I could cut and paste the python code if that would help

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  • From Richard Fairman@1:229/2 to All on Friday, October 04, 2019 11:13:33
    From: acampb5160@gmail.com

    Now getting more topics from the rss feed Hiwever cannot get screens to pause. I've tried the commands given in the mystic wiki but no screen pausing
    Regards
    Richard

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