al-skel/home/.config/awesome/vicious/contrib/rss.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
--  * (c) 2009, olcc
--
-- This is now a standalone RSS reader for awesome:
--  * http://github.com/olcc/aware
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local pairs = pairs
local io = { popen = io.popen }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
-- }}}


-- RSS: provides latest world news
-- vicious.contrib.rss
local rss = {}


-- {{{ RSS widget type
local function worker(format, input)
  -- input:  * feed   - feed url
  --         * object - entity to look for (typically: 'item')
  --         * fields - fields to read (example: 'link', 'title', 'description')
  -- output: * count  - number of entities found
  --         * one table for each field, containing wanted values
  local feed   = input.feed
  local object = input.object
  local fields = input.fields

  -- Initialise tables
  local out = {}

  for _, v in pairs(fields) do
    out[v] = {}
  end

  -- Initialise variables
  local ob    = nil
  local i,j,k = 1, 1, 0
  local curl  = "curl -A 'Mozilla/4.0' -fsm 5 --connect-timeout 3 "

  -- Get the feed
  local f = io.popen(curl .. '"' .. feed .. '"')
  local feed = f:read("*all")
  f:close()

  while true do
    i, j, ob = feed.find(feed, "<" .. object .. ">(.-)</" .. object .. ">", i)
    if not ob then break end

    for _, v in pairs(fields) do
      out[v][k] = ob:match("<" .. v .. ">(.*)</" .. v .. ">")
    end

    k = k+1
    i = j+1
  end

  -- Update the entity count
  out.count = k

  return out
end
-- }}}

return setmetatable(rss, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })