2011-11-16T16:29:50+00:00 l.m.orchard@pobox.com 2006-01-21T06:54:30+00:00 http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/01/21/a-bit-of-newsriver-hackery <p><strong>Update:</strong> <em>I moved this code over to <a href="http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad/">my space over at hosting.opml.org</a> and added some updater code from <a href="http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/">Nicholas Riley's webdav tool</a>, so that you should be able to just "Get Latest Code..." once you've got this installed. (Or reinstalled, if you grabbed last night's version.) Also, I fixed a bug or two.</em></p> <p>So, I couldn't resist poking around with Dave Winer's <a href="http://www.newsriver.org/">newsRiver</a> in the <a href="http://www.opml.org">OPML editor</a>. For whomever's interested in this sort of thing, here's the result of a couple of hours' hacking this evening:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://hosting.opml.org/decafbad/decafbadNewsRiver/decafbadNewsRiver.root"><code>decafbadNewsRiver.root</code></a></li> </ul> <p>In this is a tool to be dropped into your OPML Editor install's Guest Databases / apps / Tools directory, right alongside <code>newsRiver.root</code> itself. You may need to restart the OPML Editor. Once installed, you should see a new "DecafbadNewsRiver" menu item under the Tools menu, allowing you to view your news in this new UI. Expect <em>lots</em> of bugs, though.</p> <p>Basically, this provides an alternate DHTML outline rendering of the news items gathered by newsRiver—quite similar to <a href="http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/feedspool-is-progressing-nicely">what I did back in October for FeedSpool</a>. I'm not sure how far I'll take this, if I take it any farther. I've got a bit of a notion to tackle some REST/AJAX interaction with newsRiver for on-the-spot item deletion, and maybe on-demand item content retrieval.</p> <p>But, for newsRiver hackers: You might like what I've done with the <code>viewNewsItems</code> script under <code>decafbadNewsRiverSuite</code>. I've made an attempt to pull all of the HTML out of the midst of the processing code. That's was icky, and I hated it back when I first ran into it in Radio UserLand.</p> <p>I've broken all of that out into smaller external templates for page, feed, and item under <code>decafbadNewsRiverData</code>. This should allow for easier styling and customization of the code that newsRiver produces, as well as maybe swapping themes on the fly with a preference that points the rendering process at a different root table for templates.</p> <p>In any case, do what you like with this work. I hope it's useful to someone out there.</p> <!-- tags: newsriver frontier userland radio usertalk rss syndication feeds dwiner --> <div id="comments" class="comments archived-comments"> <h3>Archived Comments</h3> <ul class="comments"> <li class="comment" id="comment-221084999"> <div class="meta"> <div class="author"> <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" href="http://donovanwatts.com/"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=188ad8b4dc99107d22c8b868e45f0508&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a> <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" href="http://donovanwatts.com/">Donovan Watts</a> </div> <a href="#comment-221084999" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-01-21T07:55:24">2006-01-21T07:55:24</time></a> </div> <div class="content"><p>neat! i much prefer this interface. thanks much.</p></div> </li> </ul> </div>