%HEADLINES{"..."}%
Parameter | Explanation | Default |
---|---|---|
"..." |
Source of RSS or ATOM feed; this can be an url (starting with http) or a web.topic location for internal feeds | None; is required |
href="..." |
(Alternative to above) | N/A |
refresh="60" |
Refresh rate in minutes for caching feed; "0" for no caching |
Global REFRESH setting |
limit="12" |
Maximum number of items shown | Global LIMIT setting |
header="..." |
Header. May include these variables: - $channeltitle , $title : title of channel (channel.title) - $channellink , $link : link of channel (channel.link) - $channeldescription , $description : description (channel.description) - $channeldate , $date : publication date of the channel (channel.pubDate) - $rights : copyrights of the channel (channel.copyright) - $imagetitle : title text for site (image.title) - $imagelink : link for site (image.link) - $imageurl : URL of image (image.url) - $imagedescription : description of image (image.description) |
Global HEADER setting |
format="..." |
Format of one item. May include these variables: - $title : news item title (item.title) - $link : news item link (item.link) - $description : news item description (item.description) - $date : the publication date (item.pubDate, item.date) - $category : the article category (item.category) |
Global FORMAT setting |
touch="..." |
Touch (edit/save) topics if the feed has updates. Specify a comma-space delimited list of TopicNames or Web.TopicNames, such as "%TOPIC%, NewsLetter" . Useful to send out newsletter using MailerContrib, showing new feeds since last newsletter. To update feeds, visit topics with feeds in regular intervals (using cron with wget or the like). |
N/A |
header
and format
parameters might also use variables rendering the dc
, image
and content
namespace information. Note, that only bits of interest have been implemented so far and those namespaces might not be implemented fully yet.
dc
namespace dc
namespace info, that could be used in header
and format
. Note that some of the variables are already used above. This is done by purpose to use different feeds with the same formatting parameters. If there's a conflict the non-dc tags have higher precedence, i.e. a <title> content </title>
is preferred over <dc:title> content </dc:title>
. $title
: channel/article title (dc:title)
$creator
: channel creator (dc:creator)
$subject
: subject text; this will also add an image according to the subject hash list, see above (dc:subject)
$description
: ... (dc:description)
$publisher
: the channel/article publisher (dc:publisher)
$contributor
: ... (dc:contributor)
$date
: ... (dc:date)
$type
: ... (dc:type)
$format
: ... (dc:format)
$identifier
: ... (dc:identifier)
$source
: ... (dc:source)
$language
: ... (dc:language)
$relation
: ... (dc:relation)
$coverage
: ... (dc: coverage)
$rights
: ... (dc: rights)
image
namespace image:item
is converted into an <img> tag using the following mappings: src
: image url (rdf:about attribute of the image.item tag)
alt
: image title (title)
width
: image width (image:width)
height
: image height image:height)
content
namespace $content
is referring to the <content:encoding> content </content:encoding>
.
%HEADLINES{ "http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf" header="*[[$link][$title]]:* $description" format="$t* [[$link][$title]]" limit="4" }%to get the latest Slashdot news as a bullet list format:
%HEADLINES{ "http://www.business-opportunities.biz/feed" limit="2" }%to get the latest postings on the "Business Opportunities" weblog:
HEADLINESPLUGIN_USERAGENTNAME
setting, add a * Set HEADLINESPLUGIN_USERAGENTNAME = ...
bullet in Main.TWikiPreferences.
0
to disable caching: 1
, or fallback to TWiki's internal getUrl()
method if set to 0
: * Set HEADLINESPLUGIN_HEADER = <div class="headlinesChannel"><div class="headlinesLogo"><img src="$imageurl" alt="$imagetitle" border="0" />%BR%</div><div class="headlinesTitle">$n---+!! <a href="$link">$title</a></div><div class="headlinesDate">$date</div><div class="headlinesDescription">$description</div><div class="headlinesRight">$rights</div></div>
* Set HEADLINESPLUGIN_FORMAT = <div class="headlinesArticle"><div class="headlinesTitle"><a href="$link">$title</a></div>$n<span class="headlinesDate">$date</span> <span class="headlinesCreator"> $creator</span> <span class="headlinesSubject"> $subject </span>$n<div class="headlinesText"> $description</div></div>
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{HOST}
- proxy host, such as "proxy.example.com";
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{PORT}
- proxy port, such as "8080";
$TWiki::cfg{PROXY}{SkipProxyForDomains}
- domains excluded from proxy, such as "intra.example.com, bugs.example.com";
headlinesRss
: output of the HeadlinesPlugin (div) headlinesChannel
: channel header (div) headlinesLogo
: channel logo (div)
headlinesTitle
: channel title (div)
headlinesDate
: channel date (div)
headlinesDescription
: channel description (div)
headlinesRight
: channel copyright (div)
headlinesArticle
: one news item (div) headlinesTitle
: article title (div)
headlinesDate
: article date (span)
headlinesCreator
: author of article (span)
headlinesSubject
: subect category of the article (span)
headlinesText
: article text (div)
HeadlinesPlugin.zip
in your twiki installation directory. Content: File: | Description: |
---|---|
data/TWiki/HeadlinesPlugin.txt | Plugin topic |
pub/TWiki/HeadlinesPlugin/style.css | Default CSS |
lib/TWiki/Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin.pm | Plugin Perl module |
lib/TWiki/HeadlinesPlugin/Core.pm | Plugin core |
Name | Version | Description |
---|---|---|
Digest::MD5 | >=2.33 | Required. Download from CPAN:Digest::MD5 |
LWP::UserAgent | >=5.803 | Optional. Download from CPAN:LWP::UserAgent |
Plugin Author: | TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum |
Copyright: | © 2002-2013 Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org © 2005-2007 Michael Daum wikiring.de |
License: | GPL (GNU General Public License) |
Plugin Version: | 2013-02-16 |
2013-02-16: | TWikibug:Item7091: Use TWISTY in installation instructions section and change history |
2013-01-29: | TWikibug:Item7131: HeadlinesPlugin doesn't match pattern in multiple lines. |
2012-12-10: | TWikibug:Item7070: HeadlinesPlugin doesn't support multiple disks. |
2012-11-13: | TWikibug:Item7016: Restore changes for earlier versions with LWP |
2012-11-13: | TWikibug:Item7020: Categorize TWiki Variable |
2012-10-31: | TWikibug:Item7016: Utilize <guid> value when it is available |
2012-09-05: | TWikibug:Item6837: Doc fixes |
2011-07-17: | TWikibug:Item6764: Add VarHEADLINES variable documentation; doc improvements; setting NO_PREFS_IN_TOPIC |
2011-07-08: | TWikibug:Item6725: Change global package variables from "use vars" to "our" |
2010-05-16: | TWikibug:Item6433: More doc improvements |
2010-04-25: | TWikibug:Item6433: Doc fix: Changing TWIKIWEB to SYSTEMWEB |
2010-02-27: | TWikibug:Item6313: Fixed bug in ATOM feed with <link ...></link> instead of <link ... /> -- Peter Thoeny |
2009-09-30: | fixed bug in lastBuildDate of feeds affecting touch parameter functionality -- Peter Thoeny |
2009-08-29: | added touch parameter -- Peter Thoeny |
12 Feb 2009: | {PROXY}{HOST} supports domain with and without protocol -- Peter Thoeny |
06 Feb 2009: | added {PROXY}{SkipProxyForDomains} configure setting, added USERAGENTNAME plugin setting -- Peter Thoeny |
11 Dec 2008: | added {PROXY}{HOST} and {PROXY}{PORT} configure settings -- Peter Thoeny |
13 Sep 2007: | fixed parsing of content:encoded |
23 Jul 2006: | improved atom parser; if a posting has no title default to 'Untitled' |
26 Apr 2006: | added lazy compilation |
10 Feb 2006: | packaged using the TWiki:Plugins/BuildContrib; minor fixes |
03 Feb 2006: | off-by-one: limit="n" returned n+1 articles; make FORMAT and HEADER format strings more robust |
23 Jan 2006: | released v2.00 |
05 Dec 2005: | internal feed urls must be absolute |
02 Dec 2005: | added web.topic shorthand for internal feeds |
29 Nov 2005: | fixed CDATA handling |
21 Nov 2005: | added ATOM support; extended RSS support; added dublin core support; added content support; optionally using LWP to fetch feeds to follow redirections; corrected CPAN dependencies ; recoding special chars from html integer to entity encoding to increase browser compatibility; added css support; use getWorkArea() if available |
11 May 2005: | TWiki:Main.WillNorris: added DevelopBranch compatability |
31 Oct 2004: | Fixed taint issue by TWiki:Main.AdrianWeiler; small performance improvement |
29 Oct 2004: | Fixed issue of external caching if mod_perl or SpeedyCGI is used |
02 Aug 2002: | Implemented caching of feeds, thanks to TWiki:Main/RobDuarte |
11 Jun 2002: | Initial version (V1.000) |
Perl Version: | 5.8 |
Plugin Benchmark: | GoodStyle 100%, FormattedSearch 99.5%, HeadlinesPlugin 94% |
Plugin Home: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin |
Feedback: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/HeadlinesPluginDev |
Appraisal: | http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/HeadlinesPluginAppraisal |