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custom_rss_generators/teanglann_wotd.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# Script to scrape the Irish dictionary website teanglann.ie and turn the "Word of the Day" into an RSS item
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use Encode;
# use UTF-8 when writing to STDOUT
binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)");
my $url = "https://www.teanglann.ie/en/";
my $html = `curl "$url"`;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tree->parse(decode('UTF-8', $html));
$tree->eof;
my $div = $tree->look_down(_tag => "div", class => "wod");
my $a_tag = $div->look_down(_tag => "a", class => "headword");
my $entry = $div->look_down(_tag => "span", class => "entry");
my $word = $a_tag->as_text;
my $link = $a_tag->attr("href");
print("
<rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' version='2.0'>
<channel>
<title>Teanglann.ie: Focal an Lae</title>
<link>" . $url . "</link>
<item>
<title>" . $word . "</title>
<link>https://www.teanglann.ie" . $link . "</link>
<pubDate>" . `date "+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"` . "</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[" . $entry->as_text . "]]></description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
");
$tree = $tree->delete;