Goal: to monitor an RSS feed and post new items as quickly as possible to a channel.
Found an rss tcl script or two that does what I need, but I'd like to set it to run the required function every x seconds instead of every x minutes (bind time line).
This possible in eggdrop? Of course if anyone has a better idea of how to implement this I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance and I hope this is the correct forum to post to.
caesar wrote:How often is that RSS feed being updated?
A few times a minute. The big thing is that we have to get from the rss feed to the room as quickly as we can. The utimer is set to 10 seconds right now and it seems to be running okay.
There's no need to fetch the rss if it isn't updated any sooner, cos you will end up stressing out the server that hosts the feed and you will get banned sooner or later (only if it isn't your server).
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
I'm using the rss-synd script on the tcl script archive. It caches the last instance of the file and only posts the new items. Search for it and I'm sure you'll find it.
As for the other question, it's a news feed that needs to be close to instantaneous. We own the server so no possibility of getting banned.