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Another very good way to parse an XML RSS feed to plain text.

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This solution I found is a very good way to parse an XML RSS feed to plain text. This requires the XMLStarlet utility. On a Macbook it was installed easily. [ jason@$deusexmachina.local ] [ Jobs 0. PWD: ~. -bash 3.2.57. ] [ 118-:$ ] -> brew install xmlstarlet ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/xmlstarlet/manifests/1.6.1 ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Downloading … Read more

Youtube RSS feeds died temporarily but now they are back.

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Youtube RSS feeds died for a short time, but now they are back. These are a great way to get information about a Youtube user`s latest uploaded videos. This can allow access to the thumbnail file and the views count. Here is an example URL. https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCgc4xqIMDoiP4KOTFS21TJA. This is a sample from a Youtube RSS feed … Read more

How to print out a list of all BBC news headlines with the command line. This is very cool.

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This simple one-liner will print out all of the news headlines from the BBC news website in a simple text format. This is useful if you want to do something with a list like this. Or if you just want a listing to see if there is anything interesting happening. Updated command for 2017, as … Read more