When I first looked at TiddlyWiki I thought that this would be really cool to use for blogging.
So recently I’ve started to fiddle with creating macros/plugins for TiddlyWiki and I came up with the idea of an RSS reader macro. What it does is pulls in blogs via RSS, and creates a tiddler for each blog, and then tags the tiddler to link it to a specific blog feed (e.g. ‘craigCookBlog’).
The macro I’ve created can either accept two direct parameters (RSSFeedURL, tagName), or if you pass in none it will look to a specific tiddler (RSSFeedList) which contains a comma separated list of RSS feeds and their tagNames.
At the moment it only works if the TiddyWiki is stored locally, I’m working on a solution for when it is stored remotely (i.e. on a server). I’m also working on a better way of adding RSS feeds to the list, but for the moment you get the principle.
You can check it out at:
http://www.craigcook.co.uk/samples/RSSWiki.html
P.s. Please tell me if you have any issues with this URL.
October 2, 2007 at 10:03 pm
I’m afraid I can’t get that URL working Craig.
“Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at http://www.craigcook.co.uk.”
October 3, 2007 at 8:10 am
Saq try now. My network at home wasn’t working properly so that’s why you couldn’t get to the page. After hours of fiddling I realised that my filter had blown
P.s. You may have some issues trying the RSS reader on a Mac. I’ve tested in FireFox but on a PC and it works fine, Jon and Jeremy have used Macs (with FireFox) and had some issues.
October 3, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Sadly it’s still not working! Could you email it to me? Or get set up with SVN at TiddlyWiki.org
I am a PC user myself so the Mac problems should not apply to me.