useit.cgi

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Fetch Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox and turn it into a basic RSS feed

%w{rubygems hpricot open-uri rss/maker}.each { |l| require l }

puts "Content-type: text/xml\n\n"

feed = RSS::Maker.make("2.0") do |rss|
  rss.channel.title = "Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox"
  rss.channel.link = "http://useit.com/alertbox"
  rss.channel.description = "Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox"
  (Hpricot(open('http://www.useit.com/alertbox')) / "li a").first(10).each do |link|
    item = rss.items.new_item
    item.title = link.inner_text
    item.link = "http://www.useit.com/alertbox/" + link.attributes['href']
  end
end

puts feed