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[p7389]

Courtesey of skeeterfood, here are links to a more elegant version (we're saving Yahoo some processing power!..):

Pipe web page: http://pipes.yahoo.com/skeeterfood/jrmc12
RSS direct link: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=2c930c697403198ace99b1e9fbdae965&_render=rss

ORIGINAL POST:

So, my thread on the possibility of an RSS feed announcing new MC versions was locked, and lazyness was implied. I grant that . I do however think
that that is a sufficient reason to implement such a feed - but this thread isn't about that - it's already been denied, and no need for another locked thread on the subject, so let's get constructive instead.

Anyway, I thought of Yahoo Pipes and the forum RSS-feed. I once tried to use Pipes for something else, but I wasn't terrible successful at it. However, I made an attempt that you may find here:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/p7389

Since it seems that the feed only contains the last 5 items I'll have to wait to see if it will work. If there's someone here who has more experience with Pipes (and such things in general) then I have (which is to say more than just above nothing), feel free to modify it. Anyway, take a look at the source and tell me what you think.

I think this, if we can get it to work OK, will be a fair compromise.

See below!

[p7389]

So, the main obstacle in getting this thing to work was the ridiculous five post long RSS feed.

Having nothing especially more important to do, however, I thought I'c check to see what the very oldest thread on the MC12 board was about. And there, on page 70 of the forum, I found what I needed in a thread called "MC12 Beta Board RSS Feed". Apparently, it's quite easy to get the feed to include more entries, up to 255. Armed with my new feed adress, I went over to Pipes, clicked past their annoying "you don't use IE or FF" notice, and started to look for a good filter...

I think it works now!



As long as Jim never stops writing "Any MC12.0 license will work with it." in the posts, that is .

LINKS REMOVED. See first post.

In Google Reader I don't get up these entries right now, but I think it will work with new ones if 404 and 410 doesn't show up (I don't know exactly how the inner working of GR works in terms of when it actually fetches feeds, etc.). Testing it out in Opera I got what I expected. (EDIT: showed up in GR too now).

Waiting anxiously for the next version now to see if it shows up .

[skeeterfood]

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting!

I simplified it quite a bit by using a regular expression to only find titles matching "Media Center xx.x.xxx":
^Media Center [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$

^ = Start of text
[0-9]+ = 1 or more digits
\. = '.', since '.' by itself matches any character
$ = End of text

This should always work unless someone else creates a thread with a title that exactly matches this.  It will also work when the version increases to 12.1.xxx, 13.0.xxx.  Though they'll probably start a new MC13 board when MC13 development begins...

Check out my version here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/skeeterfood/jrmc12

-John

[p7389]

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting!

I simplified it quite a bit by using a regular expression to only find titles matching "Media Center xx.x.xxx":
^Media Center [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$

^ = Start of text
[0-9]+ = 1 or more digits
\. = '.', since '.' by itself matches any character
$ = End of text

This should always work unless someone else creates a thread with a title that exactly matches this.  It will also work when the version increases to 12.1.xxx, 13.0.xxx.  Though they'll probably start a new MC13 board when MC13 development begins...

Check out my version here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/skeeterfood/jrmc12

-John

Thanks, I'd rather use that then. Much more elegant. I just improvised  . As I said in the first post, don't really know anything about it...

I'll update the first posts with your link.