Not sure if anyone's already covered this, since I'm new around here, but it seems like a perfect thing to be able to render searches as RSS summaries for inclusion in things like say a
SlashCode site's
SlashBoxes, or any of the other random web site things which consume RSS. Is this just a matter of:
- Making a topic that invokes the appropriate search and
- Making an RSS skin for a search and accessing the topic with the appropriate skin name?
On the other hand, though this would probably be a plugin, how about pulling RSS headlines from other sites into a TWiki topic?
(Looks like
SlashdotPlugin is supposed to do this. --
MikeGallaher)
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LesOrchard - 01 Jun 2001
The latter is probably easily done with a Plugin.
Pushing RSS should be easy to put into the search functions, adding a RSS output option. A binary bin/rss-output (similar to bin/search) and a specfic template (rss.tmpl) would complete the work.
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NicholasLee - 04 Jun 2001
I'd hacked up an RSS-generating search results template
in a previous release of TWiki, but it involved tweaking the search code (but not much).
I have to do it again in the newer TWiki version, so
I'll look for a more elegant way to do it. Either way,
I'll post the patch and say so here.
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MikeGallaher - 21 Nov 2001
For better or worse, I've refactored Search.pm (from the Sep 2001 release) to separate content from presentation.
I extracted code into two new modules
SearchFormatter and
TopicInfo.
I did this initially so I could better understand what the code
was doing. It might make it easier to plug in
new search engines and template engines,
so I'll attach the files here.
There's still some work to do, but, when isn't there?
This might relate to these topics:
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MikeGallaher - 07 Jan 2002
Check out the new
FormattedSearch, you might be abe to do it without changing the TWiki core code.
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PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2001
The TWiki core using
FormattedSearch can create RSS feeds, see
TWikiSyndication and
WikiRssExtension.
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PeterThoeny - 08 Jan 2002
TWiki has now a RSS reader,
Plugins.HeadlinesPlugin
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PeterThoeny - 12 Jun 2002
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