#!/bin/bash
# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
#
# Usage:
# .conkyrc: ${execi [time] /path/to/script/conky-rss.sh URI LINES TITLENUM}
# URI = Location of feed, ex. http://www.gentoo.org/rdf/en/glsa-index.rdf
# LINES = How many titles to display (default 5)
# TITLENUM = How many times the title of the feed itself is specified, usually 1 or 2 (default 2)
uri=$1 #URI of RSS Feed
lines=$2 #Number of headlines
titlenum=$3 #Number of extra titles
if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
else
if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=5 ; fi
if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi
curl -s --connect-timeout 30 "$uri" | sed -n '/<title>GLSA/s/[^(]*\([^)]*): [^ <]*\).*/\1/p' | head -10
fi