#!/usr/bin/perl -w # rsshtml - converts an RSS file to HTML # It take one argument, either a file on the local system, # or an HTTP URL like http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf # by Jonathan Eisenzopf. v1.0 19990901 # Copyright (c) 1999 Jupitermedia Corp. All Rights Reserved. # See http://www.webreference.com/perl for more information # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # INCLUDES use strict; use XML::RSS; use LWP::Simple; # Declare variables my $content; my $file; # MAIN # check for command-line argument die "Usage: rsshtml.pl (<RSS file> | <URL>)\n" unless @ARGV == 1; # get the command-line argument my $arg = shift; # create new instance of XML::RSS my $rss = new XML::RSS; # argument is a URL if ($arg=~ /http:/i) { $content = get($arg); die "Could not retrieve $arg" unless $content; # parse the RSS content $rss->parse($content); # argument is a file } else { $file = $arg; die "File \"$file\" does't exist.\n" unless -e $file; # parse the RSS file $rss->parsefile($file); } # print the HTML channel &print_html($rss); # SUBROUTINES sub print_html { my $rss = shift; print <<HTML; <table bgcolor="#000000" border="0"><tr><td> <TABLE CELLSPACING="1" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border=0> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,Helvetica"><B><a href="$rss->{'channel'}->{'link'}">$rss->{'channel'}->{'title'}</a></B></font></td></tr> <tr><td> HTML # print channel image if ($rss->{'image'}->{'link'}) { print <<HTML; <center> <p><a href="$rss->{'image'}->{'link'}"><img src="$rss->{'image'}->{'url'}" alt="$rss->{'image'}->{'title'}" border="0" HTML print " width=\"$rss->{'image'}->{'width'}\"" if $rss->{'image'}->{'width'}; print " height=\"$rss->{'image'}->{'height'}\"" if $rss->{'image'}->{'height'}; print "></a></center><p>\n"; } # print the channel items foreach my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}}) { next unless defined($item->{'title'}) && defined($item->{'link'}); print "<li><a href=\"$item->{'link'}\">$item->{'title'}</a><BR>\n"; } # if there's a textinput element if ($rss->{'textinput'}->{'title'}) { print <<HTML; <form method="get" action="$rss->{'textinput'}->{'link'}"> $rss->{'textinput'}->{'description'}<BR> <input type="text" name="$rss->{'textinput'}->{'name'}"><BR> <input type="submit" value="$rss->{'textinput'}->{'title'}"> </form> HTML } # if there's a copyright element if ($rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}) { print <<HTML; <p><sub>$rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}</sub></p> HTML } print <<HTML; </td> </TR> </TABLE> </td></tr></table> HTML }