Introduction

It's been done many times before, but I wanted to whip up a quick Perl CGI to render an RSS feed in HTML for use in SSI on my site. This script does that very simply, yet with a small set of configurable options.

Feel free to leave some comments and suggestions over at RssDisplayDiscussion

News & Status

Had missed the email somehow, but just noticed that Klaus Johannes Rusch sent me even more fixes. Thanks!

-- LesOrchard - 07 May 2003

Yay! A bug with charsets I hadn't even known was a problem has been fixed by revisions submitted by Klaus Johannes Rusch. Thanks!

-- LesOrchard - 29 Dec 2002

First working version. ShareAndEnjoy.

-- LesOrchard - 10 Apr 2002

Downloads

• Latest (as of 2003 May 7)
  • http://www.decafbad.com/2003/05/rss_display_cgi.txt
  • Revised charset fixes!
• Previous (as of 2002 Dec 29)
  • http://www.decafbad.com/downloads/rss_display_cgi.txt

Documentation

You may either download the script from my site, or use it directly as a service at http://www.decafbad.com/web-services/url-based/rss_display.cgi.

The script takes the following form parameters:

• src - URL to the RSS feed to render
  • Defaults to "http://www.decafbad.com/blog/index.rss"
• max_items - Number of items to display
  • Defaults to 6
• cache_age - Minimum number of seconds the script will wait between refreshing and rerendering the RSS feed.
  • Defaults to 1800
• item_class - CSS class used for item text
  • Defaults to "rss_item"
• update_class - CSS class used for update time
  • Defaults to "rss_update"
• title_class - CSS class used for RSS feed title
  • Defaults to "rss_title"
• link_class - CSS class used for RSS feed link
  • Defaults to "rss_link"
• xml_img - Image URL to use for the RSS feed XML link
  • Defaults to "http://www.decafbad.com/images/xml.gif"

The script returns an HTML fragment like so:

0xDECAFBAD Blog ()

• My brain's full of fog
• Super-fast DummyPants? Addressbarlet for del.icio.us
• Quick and Random Thoughts
• Quick Thoughts for a Thursday
• Homebrew Productivity via Rube Goldberg
• Quick Brain Burps
• A Few Quick Notes on Podcasts
• Discovering WSGI and XSLT as middleware
• AJAX Testing and Logging
• An Experiment in REST and XML

Main.RssDisplay moved from Main.RSSDisplay on 18 Apr 2002 - 03:57 by LesOrchard - put it back