Getrss

How to use the Getrss robot skill

Get an RSS feed and assign each response to a variable in an array. Use the variable to speak the response or perform parsing, etc.




Send a ControlCommand to the GetRSS robot skill plugin with the URL of the RSS feed. The response will be populated in global variable arrays.

Variables

The request of the RSS feed is initiated by the ControlCommand from a script. The response will be populated in global variables after the request.

"$RSSSuccess" - bool
This will return a true (1) or false (0) about the status of the last RSS query request. If the response is false (0), the error will be displayed in the robot skill log window and populated in the "$RSSErrorMsg" variable.

"$RSSErrorMsg" - string
If the $RSSSuccess is false (0), this variable will be populated with the error message.

"$RSSDescriptions" - string array
An array containing the list of descriptions from the RSS feed.

"$RSSTitles" - string array
The array of titles for each description in the RSS feed.

"$RSSLinks" - string array
An array of links (optional) for each description of the RSS feed. 

"$RSSDates" - string date array
The array of dates is in string format for each description of the feed.

ControlCommand

There is one ControlCommand that accepts the RSS URL to query. Execute the ControlCommand() from another script, provide the RSS URL and the response will be populated in the variables. It is a good idea to check the status of the query,

Javascript example print response:

Quote:

ControlCommand("GetRSS", "get", "https://rss.art19.com/apology-line");

if (getVar("$RSSSuccess")) {

print(getVar("$RSSDescriptions[0]"));
} else {

print(getVar("$RSSErrorMsg"));
}

Javascript example speak response out of PC speaker:

Quote:

ControlCommand("GetRSS", "get", "https://rss.art19.com/apology-line");

if (getVar("$RSSSuccess")) {

Audio.say(getVar("$RSSDescriptions[0]"));

} else {

Audio.say("Error getting feed");
print(getVar("$RSSErrorMsg"));
}