CNN script

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:22 am

it dont work or..

CNN News v1.1 by Thrill - Loaded.

i have lynx in /usr/bin/lynx
and the temp dir is
/tmp/newstmp1.txt
/tmp/newstmp2.txt

when i typ '!new top' in the irc channel a new newstmp1.txt ,newstmp2.txt
is made with the latest news but no news in the irc channel??

NewzUK · Post by **NewzUK** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:24 pm

are you getting any errors in the botchat?

don't forget to check and set where lynx is location as the script uses lynx to get the news...

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:37 pm

no errors

and from the script:
# set the location of lynx here. Normally this should be ok.
set lynx "/usr/bin/lynx"

#set locations of tempfiles here, default /tmp/newstmp1.txt, newstmp2.txt should be ok
set ftemp1 "/tmp/newstmp1.txt"
set ftemp2 "/tmp/newstmp2.txt"

when i typ '!news top'
the latest news is saved to the newstmp1.txt.
but no news in the channel?
am i doing somthing wrong? sry for my bad english

NewzUK · Post by **NewzUK** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:40 pm

and lynx is definatly at /usr/bin/lynx

you can check where it is by typing:

whereis lynx

in the shell of the computer your bot is on

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:45 pm

[quote="NewzBoy"]
whereis lynx

in the shell of the computer your bot is on[/quote]

shell ?
its on my second computer, running mandrake on it

wheresi lynx
lynx: /usr/bin/lynx /usr/share/lynx /usr/bin/man/man1/lynx.1.bz.2

NewzUK · Post by **NewzUK** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:51 pm

open a shell window (like you use to launch the bot) and type whereis lynx

that will tell you if/where lynx is installed

if it's not is the directory: /usr/bin/lynx
you'll need to change the script to point to what directory it's in

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:53 pm

as i wrote in the first post
i have lynx in /usr/bin/lynx
and the temp dir is
/tmp/newstmp1.txt
/tmp/newstmp2.txt

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:00 pm

when i typ wheresi lynx
lynx: /usr/bin/lynx /usr/share/lynx /usr/bin/man/man1/lynx.1.bz.2

but can i reinstall lynx anyway?

Post by **user** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:07 pm

What gave you the idea that lynx is the source of his problems? Since the tmp-files have content in them, the fetching part obviously went fine.

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:10 pm

out of ideas

want it to work

the only text i geting back from bot is when i typ
<me>!news
<bot>Please enter which news you would like to read (!news help)
<me>!news help
<bot>Usage: !news <item>
<bot>- top - Top Stories , world - World News
<bot>- us - US News , politics - Politics News
<bot>- weather - Weather News , business - Business News
<bot>- tech - Technology News, space - Space News
<bot>- health - Health News , entertain - Entertainment News
<bot>- sports - Sports News , travel - Travel News
<me>!news top

and nothing happens but newstmp1.txt is updating

NewzUK · Post by **NewzUK** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:20 pm

well excuse me user - I was just offering a suggestion - I won't bother again.

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:24 pm

nocomment

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:07 am

Probably the format of the webpage changed, so the parsing stuff isn't working. To make sure, you should add putlog statements to check the values of certain variables. For instance, in this script you'll probably want to putlog the templine variable, and at least one inside the if statement to see if it ever executes (I'm guessing it doesn't). Then figure out what to change to make it work.