Receive rss by sms using python-rsstail and gammu

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I will explain how to get and rss feed and send it to sms.

Requirements

1. Debian/Ubuntu/…
2. A cellphone who works with gammu. See list here of supported phones here.
3. gammu : Who will provide the ability to control your phone from a computer. Install it with sudo apt-get install gammu
4. rsstail : the python version not the original. This tools will output to the terminal the rss. You can install it with pip : pip install rsstail To install pip check this post on StackOverFlow.

Configuration

1. First connect your phone with usb cable or bluetooth to your computer. Thanks to Mathieu L’Allemand who did a great post for the Sony K750i.

1. Configure the phone using gammu-config in your terminal and set parameters who can be found on the gammu phone database.
2. To test your phone simply do an echo "My first message" | /usb/bin/gammu --send SMS TEXT +*yournumber* You can get all the available command of gammu here.
3. Grab your rss feeds. Like in my example the football results of the french Ligue 1 (I did this bot for a friend who loves football). My rss in the example looks like this : http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml.
4. Put it in rsstail like : rsstail http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml I have to force encoding because of the type of my rss feed who have some problems (W3C say Your feed appears to be encoded as « UTF-8″, but your server is reporting « US-ASCII »). So for me the command is PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml with --nofail to don’t exit if I have errors, and PYTHONIOENCODING to force utf8 encoding.
5. We had the option to sort only the last line with -n 1 and format it a little bit --format 'Football News: {title}' After we had :

Title: Ligue 1 : Rennes - PSG (score final : 1-3) 

Title: Ligue 1 : Rennes - PSG en direct   

Title: Ligue 1 : Montpellier - Saint-Etienne (score final : 0-1)  

Title: Ligue 1 : Montpellier - Saint-Etienne en direct

Now we have :

 Football News: Ligue 1 : PSG - Lille (score final : 2-2)

1. But we have a problem. We want only feed with « score » mentioned. For that we use grepwith the option --line-buffered otherwise it will doesn’t work. We will have :

   PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail -n 1 --format 'Football News: {title}' http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml | grep --line-buffered "score"
   

2. We will now pipe it using a while ... read loop to run command on every new line.

   while read line  
   do  
   command  
   done
   

3. We will modify a little bit the gammu command adding -text to specify the text submitted. The loop will look like :

   while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done
   

4. With everything together we will have this :

   user@host:~# PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail --format 'Football News: {title}' http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml | grep --line-buffered "score" | while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done
   

Enjoy !

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