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silentcontender

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Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] Conky and RSS feeds

I'm trying to get rss feed to conky from cnn.com.  I have tried:

${rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss feed_title}
${rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss item_title}
${rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss item_titles 10}

But I always get "Conky: Error Processing RSS data"  I've tried other feed and they work, but I don't think they used *.rss, it was *.xml  How do I need to fix this to work?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by silentcontender (2009-12-30 19:11:03)

ruffedgz

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 54

Re: [SOLVED] Conky and RSS feeds

Try using this link:

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.xml

See if that works

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silentcontender

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Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] Conky and RSS feeds

I tried the link and didn't work until I found out the actual problem .  I have to define the update interval even though there's a default update interval, so this worked:

${rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss 15 item_titles 10}
or
${rss http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.xml 15 item_titles 10 } works too.