#rc script to publish status to identi.ca from another microblog (rss). #recycle

README.markdown

This script was written in 2009, when I encountered some problems with twitterfeed.com.

Nowadays, if you want to updates a microblog account from a xml feed, I suggest you use Feed2mb instead.

microbridge.rc

#!/usr/bin/env rc 

### This script publish status to one microblog from another microblog.
#
# This script can read any microblog which provides rss feed, and write
# to any microblog using the corresponding api. (Currently only support
# identi.ca.  But adding support to other microblog is very easy.)
# For the first time, you should manually download the feed and 
# specify the date in $workDir/date:
#   grep -m 1 '<dc:date>' feed > date  
# Copyright: (c) 2009 Jakukyo Friel <weakish@gmail.com>
# License: GPL v2

# config
feedAddr=http://example.com/example.rss
feedTitle='your twitter'
workDir=$home.microBridge
auth=username:password
# config area ends

# seek the line number of the first match
# pattern --> line number
fn seekln {
grep -m 1 -n $* - | cut -f 1 -d : -
}

# post to identi.ca
fn postdent {
curl https://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml \
-u $auth \
-d status'='$^*
}

# prepare feed
cd $workDir
curl $feedAddr > feed

# check status
endOfNewItem=`{expr `{cat feed | seekln `(cat date)} - 7}

# record new status
grep -m 1 '<dc:date>' feed > date

# split the rss feed
cat feed |
sed -n 1,`(echo $endOfNewItem)^p |
sed -e '/<title>'$feedTitle'<\/title>/d' |
sed -n '/<title>/p' |
split - -l 1

for (i in `(ls -r x*)) { 
    cat $i | sed -e 's/<title>//' | sed -e 's/<\/title>//' > output.txt
    postdent `(cat output.txt)
    sleep 5
}

# clean up
rm x??