Is there anyway to get current news on a Synchronet BBS such as CNN or NYtimes or any news provider? A "News" door doesn't exist? Games are the only doors available?
There are some "doors" that aren't games, but none of them providecurrent
affairs info as far as I know. Could end up being a bunch of work just to reimplement a newspaper's website in textmode. A feed (JSON or RSSlikely)
would be needed, and then you could just import that into a message area (and maybe spur some discussion) rather than have a dedicated external program for this purpose.
You could probably also set up a text-based web browser (such as Lynx) as a door if you wanted to.
likely)Is there anyway to get current news on a Synchronet BBS such as CNNaffairs info as far as I know. Could end up being a bunch of work just to reimplement a newspaper's website in textmode. A feed (JSON or RSS
or NYtimes or any news provider? A "News" door doesn't exist? Games
would be needed, and then you could just import that into a message area
I read today that NPR now supports JSON. Does that make it easier?
aren't.I read today that NPR now supports JSON. Does that make it easier?
Yes and no?
RSS and Atom are well-defined specs. In that sense they're good because a script that imports either of those would work with any compatible feed. custom script would be needed for each one. If they're all using some common/standard JSON feed format, that's great - but they probably
So RSS feeds are no longer standardized like they were years ago? I think the Mystic boards are pulling off NASA. Maybe government feeds are "Standard"? Jeez.. I can still read rss feeds with snownews. I'm not a programmer but these rss readers are ancient yet still work.
RSS and Atom are well-defined specs. In that sense they're good
So RSS feeds are no longer standardized like they were years ago? I think
I think you're using "RSS" as shorthand for "any kind of web-based news feed", and that's not quite right. An RSS feed is XML conforming to theRSS and Atom are well-defined specs. In that sense they're good
new (two years old). I hadn't heard of it before. It seems to serve the same purpose as RSS, but uses JSON instead of XML. That's great. My fear
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