RSS feed rendering Macro

RSS feed rendering Macro

Last night I spent a few hours looking how the Macro system in Snipsnap was organized. It's pretty easy to write a macro and deploy it. Today when I got some free time I wrote a RSS feed renderer macro. I wrote it, mostly to learn how the macro system works..And well, I wanted an automated way of displaying recente posts (not recent changes, that's a feature that comes in-the-box with snipsnap) and using the blog's rss feed seemed a good idea.

FeedReader is used in the following way:

Or if you want to display less or more than five feeds you can use max parameter:

First example will generate the following:
Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed
New Xbox Experience Goes Live
NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions
Towards a World Wide Grid?
Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics

Second one will generate:
Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed
New Xbox Experience Goes Live
NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions
Towards a World Wide Grid?
Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics
Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler
Apple's New MacBooks Have Built-In Copy Protection

It supports RSS v1.0 and RSS v2.0.

The jar file distributed in this post was compiled using java 1.5.0. Remember that if you are running snipsnap with java 1.4 it won't work.

If you liked this macro and want to thank me in some way, you can always send me 2€ (laugh).