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Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS feed

Recently, someone showed me the perl module XML::RSS. I've created a script that can be run on a daily basis to update an RSS feed containing the items in my wishlist.

It's turned out rather nicely, so I thought I'd contribute it to the Lazyweb. Formatting suggestions are welcome, I'm open to comments. Creative Commons attribution license in place. ISBNs are recognized as seperate from ASINs, and treated differently.

The Perl source code is available. I run it once a day; configuration options are at the top. It could probably be improved, but for now, it works, and that's enough.

If CPAN gives you trouble installing, try exiting the shell and going back in after ExtUtils::MakeMaker is upgraded. This is especially relevant to 5.005_03 users.

I need to document the config options better. ROOT is probably best to be your web root or a subdirectory under it.

Now, book links point (by default) to ISBN.nu, instead of Amazon. You can edit the script to point them at amazon, just set ISBN to ASIN.


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xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">








Comments

Good work!

By remarkable coincidence I suggested this idea on rss-dev just last night :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/4921

Hah! Thanks for pointing that out. Ah, you've already responded to it in .../4922, too. Cool.

Very nice! Thanks for putting this out in the universe.

The link in the body of this post to the source no longer works. Is there a new link?

Thanks.

pwb.

The link to the text file for the Amazon Wishlist RSS no longer works (404). Is there an updated link?

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