rss2txt.pl

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# Convert rss to text - rss2txt.pl
#
# Usage  : rss2txt.pl <RSS file> > textfile.txt
#
# Author : Kyo Nagashima
# E-Mail : kyo@hail2u.net
# URL    : http://hail2u.net/
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the same terms as Perl itself.
#
# Modified by Paul Harvey to output each entry to a new file.

use strict;

die "Usage: rss2txt.pl <RSS file> > textfile.txt\n" unless @ARGV == 1;

BEGIN { push @INC,'.'; }
use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple;

my $folder = "feedtext";

my $rss = new XML::RSS;

my $content;

my $arg = shift;
if ($arg =~ /http:/i) {
    $content = get($arg);
    die "Error: Cannot get $arg\n" unless $content;
    eval {
        $rss->parse($content);
    };
    die "Error: Cannot parse $arg\n$@\n" if $@;
}
else {
    $content = $arg;
    die "Error: Cannot find $arg\n" unless -e $content;
    eval {
        $rss->parsefile($content);
    };
    die "Error: Cannot parse $arg\n$@\n" if $@;
}

mkdir $folder;

for my $item (@{$rss->{'items'}}) {
    my $filename = &trim($item->{'title'});
    my $itemdesc = &trim($item->{'description'});
    my $text;
    $text .= qq|$filename\n|;
    $text .= qq|$itemdesc\n|;
    open (OUTFILE, ">$folder/$filename") or die "Couldn't open \"$filename\": $!";
    print OUTFILE $text;
    close OUTFILE;
}

exit;

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #

sub trim{
    my $value = $_[0];
    if ($value) {
        $value =~ s/^\s+//;
        $value =~ s/\s+$//;
    }
    return $value;
}