iStrip feed surgery

October 8, 2007 · Posted in Tech and coding · Comment 

If you have found a webcomic powered by iStrip, and tried feed autodiscovery, and found a feed, and then discovered that the feed hasn’t been configured and that therefore all the links go to www.example.com, and you use a feed reader that can use python conversion filters (like Liferea), you can use this handy little script to fix up the feed:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from sys import argv, stdin, stdout
import re

domain = argv[1]

content = stdin.read()
content = re.sub("www\.example\.com", domain, content)
stdout.write(content)

You need to pass in a parameter with whatever the domain is supposed to be. In Liferea you just insert it after the path to the script file.

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