RSS and Conky 1.47 « Mike's Planet

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RSS and Conky 1.47

Matthew's post about conky got me playing with my .conkyrc again. One new feature in conky 1.4.7, which is included in Ubuntu Gutsy, is the ability to parse RSS feeds. By adding the following lines to my .conkyrc, I get feeds from Ubuntu Forums and Planet Ubuntu posted to my desktop.

${rss http://ubuntuforums.org/external.php?type=RSS2 10 feed_title}
${rss http://ubuntuforums.org/external.php?type=RSS2 10 item_titles 20}

${rss http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml 60 feed_title}
${rss http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml 60 item_titles 10}

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Mike Basinger is an administrator on the Ubuntu Forums, where he helps users with Ubuntu questions everyday. He serves the Ubuntu community on the Ubuntu Community and Forum Councils. He currently works at the University of Utah Marriott Library in Salt Lake City, Utah USA, as an IT manager. You can also follow Mike on Identi.ca and Twitter at @technoviking.

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Joe Smith
October 8th, 2007 - 21:20

A classmate was just showing me conky, so I’ll show him this and he’ll be amazed. Thanks for the tip!
Clive
October 9th, 2007 - 01:22

I get the following error when i try this and then run conky

Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 1: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 2: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 4: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 5: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
matthew
October 9th, 2007 - 03:15

Very cool! Now I have yet another reason to get my upgrade to Gutsy on my calendar… Thanks!
Mike
October 9th, 2007 - 09:56

Clive,
This will only work with Conky 1.4.7, are you using that version.