#!/usr/bin/perl -w # rss2html - converts an RSS file to HTML # It take one argument, either a file on the local system, # or an HTTP URL like http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf # by Jonathan Eisenzopf. v1.0 19990901 # Copyright (c) 1999 internet.com Corp. All Rights Reserved. # See http://www.webreference.com/perl for more information # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # INCLUDES use strict; use XML::RSS; use LWP::Simple; # Declare variables my $content; my $file; # MAIN # check for command-line argument die "Usage: rss2html.pl ( | )\n" unless @ARGV == 1; # get the command-line argument my $arg = shift; # create new instance of XML::RSS my $rss = new XML::RSS; # argument is a URL if ($arg=~ /http:/i) { $content = get($arg); die "Could not retrieve $arg" unless $content; # parse the RSS content $rss->parse($content); # argument is a file } else { $file = $arg; die "File \"$file\" does't exist.\n" unless -e $file; # parse the RSS file $rss->parsefile($file); } # print the HTML channel &print_html($rss); # SUBROUTINES sub print_html { my $rss = shift; print <
$rss->{'channel'}->{'title'}
HTML # print channel image if ($rss->{'image'}->{'link'}) { print <

$rss->{'image'}->{'title'}{'image'}->{'width'}\"" if $rss->{'image'}->{'width'}; print " height=\"$rss->{'image'}->{'height'}\"" if $rss->{'image'}->{'height'}; print ">

\n"; } # print the channel items foreach my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}}) { next unless defined($item->{'title'}) && defined($item->{'link'}); print "

  • {'link'}\">$item->{'title'}
    \n"; } # if there's a textinput element if ($rss->{'textinput'}->{'title'}) { print < $rss->{'textinput'}->{'description'}

    HTML } # if there's a copyright element if ($rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}) { print <$rss->{'channel'}->{'copyright'}

    HTML } print <
  • HTML }