[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Duncan Brown]

I put the first "AP Top Headlines" URL from Jordan's Stackexchange URL  
in to HM 2.5 Custom Menu and ran it. HM connects with the website and 
prints out text, but needs a lot of cleanup (among other things, HM 2.5 
truncates after about 70 characters and doesn't print anything else 
until a new line is received).

I have never heard of "Atom" or "rsstail".  I know of "python" and 
"pearl" as languages, but have never used them.  I feel confident about 
changing config files, but that is about as far as I can go.

If some of you software types could just put together something we could 
just download and run to print these news feeds, it would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks,

Duncan
K2OEQ



On 28-Apr-18 19:41, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> I haven't yet used Heavy Metal and can't test these feeds in it at the 
> moment, but I was able to dig up a list of Associated Press feeds in 
> Atom format that still seem to function, assuming Heavy Metal can 
> parse Atom-formatted feeds: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/116622
>
> It seems AP doesn't advertise these feeds as I couldn't find any 
> official mention of them.
>
> --Jordan
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Duncan Brown 
> <duncanancy at earthlink.net <mailto:duncanancy at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     For the past 5-10 years, the AWA Museum has been entertaining our
>     visitors by using the HeavyMetal v2.5 program to print out the
>     Associated Press' Top Stories on a M15.  That service seems to
>     have stopped in the past week or so. Have others noticed this?
>
>     I realize that the program is very dependent on the AP's "Top
>     Stories" URL and if they change anything, you loose access.
>
>     Bill Buzbee's v2.5 README.txt file (31 Jul 08) explains the
>     problem & how to find new URLs, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.
>
>     Does anyone know of a URL that will work for news? Something that
>     can be put in the "Custom" Menu?  Or will it need processing by
>     the program and thus needed to be changed in the Perl script and
>     recompiled?
>
>     AP Top Stories is now at https://apnews.com. Is there a better way
>     to get this page as a text file without all the problems we have
>     had with Bill's method? (I used Fortran in college, but I'm more
>     of a hardware type.)
>
>     I am still using Heavy Metal 2.5 because I could never get V3.0 to
>     work and v2.5 was still working OK for me.  Is V3.0 any better for
>     changing URLs or being updated for these changes?
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
>     USASA  31J30
>
>     Antique Wireless Association Museum Asst. Curator, Commercial
>     Equipment
>     (also Chief TTY operator & repairman)
>     http://www.antiquewireless.org/ <http://www.antiquewireless.org/>
>
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