[yahoo_news]
| Link | yahoo_news |
| Author | Jason Huck |
| Category | Utility |
| Version | 8.x |
| License | http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php |
| Posted | 20 Jul 2006 |
| Updated | 20 Jul 2006 |
| More by this author... | |
Description
Given a valid feed name for Yahoo! News, returns the current feed data as an array of maps.
Sample Usage
var('mynews') = yahoo_news('topstories');
iterate($mynews, local('i'));
'' + #i->find('title') + '
\n';
'' + #i->find('pubDate')->format('%D') + '\n';
'' + #i->find('description') + '
\n';
/iterate;
Source Code
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define_tag(
'news',
-namespace='yahoo_',
-req='feed',
-priority='replace',
-description='Retrieves the specified news feed from Yahoo! News.'
);
local('out' = array);
protect;
local('data') = xml_tree(include_url('http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/' + #feed));
handle_error;
return;
/handle_error;
/protect;
local('nodes') = array(
'title',
'link',
'guid',
'pubDate',
'description',
'content',
'text',
'credit'
);
iterate(#data->channel->item, local('i'));
local('temp' = map);
iterate(#nodes, local('n'));
protect;
local('raw') = decode_html(#i->getnode(#n)->contents);
#raw->trim;
#n == 'pubDate' ? #raw = date(#raw, -format='%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT'); // Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:22:22 GMT
#temp->insert(#n = #raw);
/protect;
/iterate;
#out->insert(#temp);
/iterate;
return(#out);
/define_tag;
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