Services

An often overlooked trick that my assetManager tool has up its sleeve is a search interface to Radio UserLand's built-in RSS aggregator.

Back in the good ol' days when web services were trendy I created a web services interface to Radio's aggregator. Passing it a keyword returned a formatted list of all RSS items containing the keyword. This neat trick is invoked using a simple macro:

<%["xmlrpc://127.0.0.1:5335/RPC2"].assetManager.rssSearch ("keyword")%>

where "keyword" is what you want to search for. Add this macro to any weblog post or your weblog template to include a list of found items. You can even use this service to search other people's aggregators (if they allow it). All you need is the IP address of the remote Radio aggregator.

Try adding:

<%["xmlrpc://147.188.64.44:5335/RPC2"].assetManager.rssSearch ("rss")%>

to a new post in your weblog. You should get a list of RSS items from my aggregator matching "rss".

Here's a similar trick using Manila as a front-end to Radio's searchable aggregator.