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ki||3r · Post by **ki||3r** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:53 am

I own and run an internet security news portal network, and I was wondering if it'd be possible for a eggy to be able to pull of the current news and send it to an irc channel every hour or so? Thanks in advance.

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ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 8:02 am

There are many ways for this to be done.

It all depends on the link to the site, and the format that the data is supplied in.

Ideal ways would be to have a direct database feed (mysql, and others that Tcl can support) to the data you would request.

Other formats would be flat file database

NEWS_ID_NUMBER_123456
NEWS_SUBJECT_TESTING
NEWS_GROUP_EG_WIN32_UNIX_MAC
NEWS_SOURCE
NEWS_BODY_ALL_ON_ONE_LINE
OPTIONAL_OTHER_DETAILS_FOR_PRIORITY/SEVERITY

BLANK_LINE_BETWEEN_NEW_MESSAGES

Others again, like RDF dumps (like used on PHP NUKE(able)), as there are scripts to parse RDF files allready (non-eggdrop related, but easily portable).

All this depends on these datafeeds, and how much control over the content provider sites you currently have.