• From: /emerald-city
  • Registered: 2009-05-30
  • Posts: 392

Topic: Adding RSS Feeds to your #! Menu.

Since some network execs have limited Hulus ability to make their feeds widely available, and ruined my perfect XBMC setup,
Ive been trying to be creative with integrating Hulu info into my desktop.
I installed the minimal Midbrowser from the repos for viewing @ hulu.com, and added menu entries directly to specific shows.
But I noticed today that the queue in Hulu has a little RSS button....
So i found this RSS pipemenu script on the openbox website, and added a couple things to my menu.
Parts of the #! Forums, and of course my Hulu queue.

The script is here...
http://www.nakamura-gebiet.de/scripts/feeder.py

If you want to play with it,
Create a new text file in /usr/bin...call it feeder.py.
Copy and past the script and edit the rssfeed info on lines 55 thru 62,
Also edit your browser and media player info on lines 66 and 67 (you can pipe and launch podcasts with the script as well)
Save it and make it executable by right click >properties >preferences, or in a terminal with..

chmod -x /usr/bin/feeder.py

Then add this to your menu.xml where ever you want it to show up...

 <menu id="feeder" label="RSS" execute="feeder.py"/>
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  • From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
  • Posts: 4,429

Re: Adding RSS Feeds to your #! Menu.

Nice find, it works well. I am not sure it will replace my Google Reader account, but I can definitely see this coming in handy for other things. Thank you for sharing! smile

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  • Registered: 2009-05-13
  • Posts: 161

Re: Adding RSS Feeds to your #! Menu.

Great script!!!!! now if i could just find an NFL scoreboard rss feed!!!!! got any ideas where i might find a good one? big_smile

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  • From: Finland
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Adding RSS Feeds to your #! Menu.

I'll see if I get this work with pekwm menu big_smile

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