Question

Is it possible to include a remote RSS feed (from a different server) in a twiki topic? and then style it so that it looks pretty?

Environment

-- MattWilkie - 10 May 2005

Answer

Not here on TWiki.org at this time due to a SourceForge hosting limitation. This should be solved in the next 2 weeks or so.

But why INCLUDE an RSS feed when you can use the HeadlinesPlugin to display a feed from another server?

-- PeterThoeny - 11 May 2005

'cause I couldn't find it. I added 'remote' to the topic to help other people who might have the same in-head keywords as I do.

Thank you WillNorris for quickly updating HeadlinesPlugin to work with DEVELOP!

For the 'pretty' part, I'm using the following (there is still room for improvement (wrapped for legibility)):

%HEADLINES{"http://del.icio.us/rss/maphew/wiki"  
header="<dt><b><a href='$channellink'>Matt's latest Wiki Bookmarks:</a></b>"  
format="<p><dd><a href='$link' style='text-decoration:none'>
$title<a/> - $description" }%

Results: (if the plugin is installed)

HeadlinesPlugin ERROR: 500 Can't connect to del.icio.us:80 (Name or service not known)

-- MattWilkie - 13 May 2005