Question for the geeks in the crowd

[andrewducker]

Okay, so if I want something to scrape an RSS feed and turn it into a daily
LJ/DW post, how hard is that going to be? Anyone got something handy that
I can kick off on a daily basis?

Or a service they could recommend?

Comments

[birguslatro]

I wrote something like that in [gulp] 2004, but it was done because the blog in question didn't have an RSS feed. Obviously not of use to you (unless you want to learn REBOL). And I wouldn't have a clue if the method used there to post to LJ would still work. Still, REBOL's parse is excellent for sifting data out of text files.

[fub.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any tools that do it -- I'd roll my own based on Python, and add an entry to the crontab on my desktop. But that may not be a plausible solution for you.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I'll invite you to ifttt.com, you might be able to do it via post-by-email using that, not sure.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Something with Yahoo Pipes?

[nameandnature]

http://www.noctua.org.uk/paul/software/lj-minifeed.html

[drjon.livejournal.com]

If you get a good answer, I'd certainly be interested. I researched the question some time ago, but didn't come up with a good answer.