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Publish to RSS from command line


From a Windows command line, I'd like to be able to publish to an RSS feed. I visualize something like this:

rsspub @builds "Build completed without errors."

Then, someone could go to my computer:

http://xp64-Matt:9090/builds/rss.xml

And there'd be a new entry with the date and time and the simple text "Build completed without errors."

I'd like the feed itself to run on a different port, so I'm not fighting with IIS or Apache, or whatever else I need to run on my computer on a day-to-day basis.

Does anything like this exist?


Solution

  • Here's a simple .Net 3.5 C# program that will create an RSS XML file that you can store in your IIS webroot:

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Xml;
    using System.IO;
    
    namespace CommandLineRSS
    {
        class Program
        {
            static void Main( string[] args )
            {
                var file = args[ 0 ];
                var newEntry = args[ 1 ];
    
                var xml = new XmlDocument();
    
                if ( File.Exists( file ) )
                    xml.Load( file );
                else
                    xml.LoadXml( @"<rss version='2.0'><channel /></rss>" );
    
                var xmlNewEntry = Create( (XmlElement)xml.SelectSingleNode( "/rss/channel" ), "item" );
                Create( xmlNewEntry, "title" ).InnerText = newEntry;
                Create( xmlNewEntry, "pubDate" ).InnerText = DateTime.Now.ToString("R");
    
                xml.Save( file );
            }
    
            private static XmlElement Create( XmlElement parent, string tag )
            {
                var a = parent.OwnerDocument.CreateElement( tag );
                parent.AppendChild( a );
                return a;
            }
        }
    }
    

    Then you can call it like this:

    CommandLineRSS.exe c:\inetpub\wwwroot\builds.xml "Build completed with errors."