Using RSS

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Chris Lale
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Revision History


Revision 1.0 24 January 2006 Revised by Chris Lale
Initial release.

Revision 1.1 27th November 2007 Revised by Chris Lale
Reformatted for newbiedoc package. Added Revision History and Licence in Appendix.


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Abstract

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is an XML document provided by a link on a website which can be read by a feed reader. It provides up-to-date information about certain pages on the site.

NewbieDOC RSS feed for the Recent changes page enables you to monitor the NewbieDOC wiki straight from your desktop.


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1 Do it in 5 seconds

The trivial way to read RSS (small online news) is to just run thunderbird (email client) or opera or firefox / iceweasel (www clients) and add there a new RSS feed. In thunderbird you do it as a new account, in firefox/iceweasel by adding a new bookmark called Live Bookmark. --LimCore 04:17, 5 March 2007 (CET)

2 Liferea

Liferea is a GTK/GNOME aggregator for online news feeds (Linux feed reader). There is more information, including documentation, at http://liferea.sourceforge.net.

2.1 Installing Liferea

The liferea package is included in the Debian distribution. Install it using Synaptic in X, or from the commandline as user root:

# aptitude install liferea

2.2 Setting up Liferea for NewbieDOC

Run Liferea. (If you are using Gnome, use the Applications menu):

Applications -> Internet -> Liferea Feed Reader

Configure Liferea. You can copy the Source: URL from the rss link in the toolbox of the Recent changes page (Toolbox -> Special pages -> Recent pages, Toolbox -> rss):

Feeds -> New Subscription
   Feed Source
      Source Type: URL
      Source: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
   OK

Wait, if necessary, until the next dialogue box appears, then

Subscription Properties

(Accept defaults)

OK

2.3 Reading the NewbieDOC feed

In the left-hand pane, click on the feed to read.

NewbieDOC - Recent changes [en]

The right-hand pane shows a list of NewbieDOC wiki pages. The first occurance of a new page shows the text of the edit page. Subsequent occurances should show diffs; a minus sign (-) indicates lines removed, a plus sign (+) indicates lines added. Bold indicates unread, normal font indicates read.

2.4 Getting the latest changes

Highlight the NewbieDOC feed. Update it using the menu

Feeds -> Update Selected

or right-click on NewbieDOC and click on

Update


You get a new unread feed. The older (read) versions also remain until you delete them.

3 Appendix A: Licence

Copyright © 2006-2007 Chris Lale, chrislale AT users DOT berlios DOT de.

GNU FDL Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."

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