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OK, RSSy has not been updated since September 25 and has been broken since at least October 30th. I would really like to use it, in particular because it would actually allow just about all the functionality I would want out of a delicious bot- posting new links into the wave.
So I got the idea Wave is a really open platform and I should in principle be able to fix anything wrong with a bot. Anyone know how I might try and fix rssy??
If the bot is open source (havent checked) you can get the bot and make your own copy of it (have to sign up for appengine). You then need to know either python or java (depends on which the bot is written in) and be able to find the problem. Problem is I would assumne writing a new one from scratch would be easier than searching and debugging the current one.
If this is the bot you're after, there's code available here: http://github.com/Thomas101/Google-wave-Rssybot
It's written in java, so if you know the language, you can fix it (java developers' guide here: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/java-tutorial.html).
Other links for this bot are:
http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=30012
http://www.wave.to/robots/rssybot/
Nice. I dont know java (barely getting by with python for now) but I might take a look into it to see if I can make a python version. Dont hold your breath though, I am very new at python.
So I'm sure it's not as powerful as RSSy was, but I have made a very basic RSS Bot (rss-bot@appspot.com) if you want to give it a try. And I haven't officially released the source (Python) for it yet, but I do plan to and I'd be willing to share it with you if you wanted to take a look, or make some modifications or whatever.
Nice, Ill test it out now that I have some time (my weekend starts on fridays).
Lol. Funny..
"I'm broken right now, sorry. Hopefully this won't last long though.
Try again in about a week and I SHOULD be back up, depending on how much
down time my maker has. My appologies (and my maker's) if this is an inconvenience. "
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