📰 Lovelace: RSS Feed Parser Plugin/List Card

finity · October 5, 2018, 3:58pm

I’m not sure if I messed something but how do I get the info from the attribute area to show in a non-lovelace view?

all I get is this:

ex2

I tried to extract it using a template sensor but I couldn’t figure out how to get the template to not complain about the format of the attribute since it doesn’t follow the standard attribute format of “key”:“value”.

Unless I’m missing something. which is likely.

And as a second question, I looked at the code and (I think…) I saw that the scan interval is every hour. If that’s correct could there be a way to choose a different interval in the config?

iantrich · October 5, 2018, 11:00pm

Didn’t really make this with non-lovelace in mind.

It is set to 1 hour update intervals. Could be added as a config, I welcome PRs

finity · October 5, 2018, 11:28pm

Ok. thanks for the reply.

Do you know of any way to extract the RSS results from the attributes and be able to use those results in a template?

iantrich · October 5, 2018, 11:41pm

Should be able to just use a for-loop, I believe: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/templates/

tottow · October 9, 2018, 7:16pm

@iantrich Thanks for this, it works really well for my use to fetch the latest news from a big news site here. However, it fetches 100 articles, how can I adjust that? I want it to get probably around 10…

Thanks

iantrich · October 9, 2018, 9:16pm

How do you plan to display the news? If doing so in Lovelace, I have developed a card list-card that has limit on how many to display that is referenced in the repo.

tottow · October 10, 2018, 8:18am

Thanks - I discussed this on discord and was given a tip bout the list-card. I limited the amount of rows, and it worked out exactly like planned

dan.skiftun · October 10, 2018, 11:46am

Hi, thanks for this. Was looking for something like this.
My purpose using RSS feed parser with list-card is to only get 5 latest headlines from a newspaper.
But the card uses a lot of space for object title and column title. Any way to get rid of it?

I ofc removed title: but it added “List” as default value it seems

iantrich · October 10, 2018, 1:02pm

@dan.skiftun
Unable to do so at the moment (at work) but you could submit a PR to update lines 17 and 79 so that a title is not rendered if not defined: https://github.com/custom-cards/list-card/blob/master/list-card.js#L17

iantrich · October 10, 2018, 9:48pm

@dan.skiftun
I went ahead and made that change. You should be able to update the card and title’s are now truly optional: https://github.com/custom-cards/list-card/pull/3

dan.skiftun · October 11, 2018, 7:37am

thank you!

elnaor · October 16, 2018, 3:01pm

Hi @iantrich ,

Everything is installed and working, but the list is not refreshing… Only after HA restart the list is updated.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Naor

iantrich · October 18, 2018, 4:51pm

It should update every hour.

Try removing lines 30 and 33 so that the default scan interval is used to see if you can pickup changes more noticeably?

elnaor · October 18, 2018, 8:03pm

Do you mean to comment out these lines?

DEFAULT_SCAN_INTERVAL = timedelta(hours=1)
SCAN_INTERVAL = timedelta(hours=1)

Update:
Done it, Ill know in a few hours if it worked

elnaor · October 19, 2018, 8:27pm

I think its started when I limited the rowa to 10. Removed that line and checking if it updates

elnaor · October 21, 2018, 4:05am

Hi @iantrich

I found the problem… it is not purging old messages. They just keep adding up.
Thats why I though it is not updating, because I saw the top of the list all the time.

Only after restarting HA the older post are gone.

Any idea?

iantrich · October 21, 2018, 4:54am

Great find! You’re right. I pushed an update to clear the data on each pull.

elnaor · October 21, 2018, 5:28am

I need to re-download to whole pack or just the feedparser?

elnaor · October 21, 2018, 8:26pm

Work like a charm! Thanks!!

armdan · October 24, 2018, 4:44pm

what RSS URL feed do you use for Upcoming shows?

thanks