RSS/Atom and IM

therealdawime · Post by **therealdawime** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:28 pm

On a perhaps unrelated note, what would be the "best" (more reliable, least effort, most extensible) way to push RSS content via IM?

The idea would be that this program/script/module would check a feed, and if it had anything new since last check, IM those new items (appropriately formatted) to anyone on its contact list. The point isn't so much to replace a newsreader as to allow various notifications to be received. RSS/Atom is becoming the format of choice for a lot of applications/vendors to provide notifications (Netflix movie shipped out, email received, stock buy completed, etc).

Daniel.

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:00 pm

So you want an AppleScript that displays RSS feeds?

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:02 pm

Give my Xtra a try.