Info Catalog newsticker: Reading News newsticker: Top newsticker: Configuration

newsticker: Automatic Processing

 
 6 Automatic Processing
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 Apart from automatic marking of headlines (by means of filters)
 Newsticker provides the possibility to fully process newly arrived
 headlines.  Instead of reading headlines yourself you can tell
 Newsticker to do that for you.
 
    In order to do so write a function which takes three arguments
 
 FEED
      the name of the corresponding news feed,
 TITLE
      the title of the headline,
 DESC
      the decoded description of the headline.
 
    and add it to ‘newsticker-new-item-functions’.  Each function
 contained in this list is called once for each new headline.  Depending
 on the feed, the title and the description of a headline you can
 
    • automatically download images referenced in HTML-formatted
      descriptions (for which a function already exists, see
      ‘newsticker-download-images’),
    • automatically save enclosed audio and video files (for which
      another function exists as well, see ‘newsticker-download-images’),
    • flash the screen while playing some sound,
    • whatever you want.
 

Info Catalog newsticker: Reading News newsticker: Top newsticker: Configuration