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  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 27, 2012 7:07am Jul 27, 2012 7:07am
I don't really know if i'm posting in the right section, or if i'm allowed to do this, but:

I wrote a program in python that fetches forexfactory's news items and displays them in a textbox with a link to the actual article. Any time there's a new news entry, it displays a popup alert window with the title.

It's kind of a work in progress stuff, there are bugs here and there but it works reliable and it's faster than refreshing the page over and over again. One can set the rss polling interval (min. 5s - max. 30s) too.

So if anyone interested just post here or write me a pm and i'll send you a download link (free stuff; use as you like; you'll need python; dropbox link; no malicious content). Any feedback would be nice.

Please note that the program displays the time the entry is fetched.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2556392/tmp/ffnews1.jpg

  • #2
  • Sep 3, 2012 11:41am Sep 3, 2012 11:41am
I searched long time ago something like this stuff. I like it! Many thanks for oneightewty.
  • #3
  • Sep 4, 2012 1:20am Sep 4, 2012 1:20am
It could be a very handy tool. I would like to try it.
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  • #4
  • Sep 4, 2012 2:32am Sep 4, 2012 2:32am
send me the link
  • #5
  • Sep 4, 2012 3:25am Sep 4, 2012 3:25am
thnks for sharing this,send me the link if u can
  • #6
  • Sep 5, 2012 2:35am Sep 5, 2012 2:35am
thanks for sharing this,send me the link if you can
  • #7
  • Sep 5, 2012 2:51am Sep 5, 2012 2:51am
Please have a look at thesefree)
http://fxnewsalert.com/
http://www.rttnews.com/Apps/deskalert.aspx

best regards,
Ludo
  • #8
  • Sep 6, 2012 4:05am Sep 6, 2012 4:05am
Please send me a link :-)
  • #9
  • Sep 10, 2012 3:10am Sep 10, 2012 3:10am
There you go guys.
  • #10
  • Sep 10, 2012 7:16am Sep 10, 2012 7:16am
Well done oneightwenty, i thought about doing something similar but i) couldn't be bothered and ii) was concerned about hitting FF site every Xsecs to check for news.
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  • #11
  • Sep 11, 2012 1:30am Sep 11, 2012 1:30am
Quoting FiatFap
Well done oneightwenty, i thought about doing something similar but i) couldn't be bothered and ii) was concerned about hitting FF site every Xsecs to check for news.
Well, that's what any other rss reader would do: hit the site [edit: not the site itself, only the rss source, which is an xml file that only contains text] every x secs to check if anything has changed. The minimum checking interval is hardcoded and (if i recall correctly) is 7 secs, so it should be absolutely no problem.
  • #12
  • Sep 11, 2012 2:02am Sep 11, 2012 2:02am
please give me instructions to use it
  • #13
  • Sep 11, 2012 2:17am Sep 11, 2012 2:17am
thanks for sharing !

will try it out
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  • #14
  • Edited 7:40am Sep 11, 2012 6:44am | Edited 7:40am
Quoting oneightwenty
Well, that's what any other rss reader would do: hit the site [edit: not the site itself, only the rss source, which is an xml file that only contains text] every x secs to check if anything has changed. The minimum checking interval is hardcoded and (if i recall correctly) is 7 secs, so it should be absolutely no problem.
Thanks for that info, some more on polling etiquette...

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Make use of HTTP cache. Send Etag and LastModified headers. Recognize 304 Not modified response. This way you can save a lot of bandwidth. Additionally some scripts recognize the LastModified header and return only partial contents (ie. only the two or three newest items instead of all 30 or so).

Addendum: Having a mooch, FF uses TTL or time to live (number of minutes that indicates how long a channel can be cached before refreshing from the source); it's set @ 1 minute <ttl>1</ttl>.
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  • #15
  • Sep 12, 2012 1:06am Sep 12, 2012 1:06am
Quoting kiencanf
please give me instructions to use it
Download Python 2.7.3 here, install it and then you only have to doubleclick the app and it should run nice and dandy.
  • #16
  • Sep 12, 2012 1:07am Sep 12, 2012 1:07am
Quoting FiatFap
Thanks for that info, some more on polling etiquette...



Addendum: Having a mooch, FF uses TTL or time to live (number of minutes that indicates how long a channel can be cached before refreshing from the source); it's set @ 1 minute <ttl>1</ttl>.
Thank you for the info, i'll certainly make use of that!
  • #17
  • Sep 14, 2012 6:36am Sep 14, 2012 6:36am
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  • | Joined May 2012 | Status: Dinapoli+Fibonacci=Upper Hand | 58 Posts
This site also do the same job , but from different resources http://rtsquawk.com/ . live updates also
  • #18
  • Last Post: Feb 8, 2013 2:48am Feb 8, 2013 2:48am
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