Author Topic: Folder-RSS: Monitor folder changes via rss (Read 97,042 times)

justice · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2007, 10:21 AM »

Righty a long awaited update to Folder-RSS

changes for version 0.9

Code

* repacked with the latest autohotkey - no more false positives from certain virus scanners
* support for Mouser's DcUpdater (let me know if this works well for you - folder-rss checks for updates on start, will make this an option
* new options thanks to donationcoder member requests:
  -only:files|folders = Only include files (-only:files) or folders (-only:folders) (Default is both)
  -only:*.ext = Only include *.ext files (eg. change to *.mp3 to include mp3 files only). (default = *.*)
  -maxage:`<number`> = Only show results last modified within the last `<number`> days (default=14)
  -maxitems:<number> = Only show up to <number> feeditems (default = 100)
* started work on graphical user interface for next version.

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justice · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2007, 10:46 AM »

I can also see opportunities to create feeds on "last accessed", "creation date" or a combination of these with "last modified date". However it seems this will add another set of commandline options that you probably don't need to get comfortble with 99% of the time.

So I am thinking of creating an interface, possibly with profiles you can load / save, and a wizard to set up such a profile.
possibly a commandline version with all optinos but a streamlined interface with these defaults; i'm not planning to add every option as a checkbox ;-).
Whether or not these things will materialize will depend on my limited resources (in time) and how excited you guys are about it

dlagesse1992 · « **Reply #27 on:** December 09, 2007, 03:58 PM »

Wow, this is a great idea. I never thought of it before, but now that you made it, there are tons of uses for it.

Thanks!

apfel · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2008, 02:28 PM »

Could someon tell me how to add this kind of feed to opera or another rss-reader app?

Edit: The Rss readers have problems with the very long line in the xml file.

justice · « **Reply #29 on:** March 10, 2008, 09:59 AM »

Hi apfel, I received your bugreport and I'm sorry you found those issues, I remember one of them lol. The code should only have one set of rss tags! I'll have a look at the issues you reported, hopefully in the next few weeks I can post an updated version. It is possible that the bugs you reported with the XML parsing prevent any newsreader from reading it as it breaks the scheme

I have success with Opera 9.20:
If you just right click on the rss feed and do Open with -> opera you will get a url like:
file://localhost/C:\rss\test.xml

Now go to the menu bar Feeds -> Manage Feed -> Add -> enter file://localhost/C:\rss\test.xml as the url and it should load.

apfel · « **Reply #30 on:** March 11, 2008, 01:21 PM »

Thank you for your answer!

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[..]It is possible that the bugs you reported with the XML parsing prevent any newsreader from reading it as it breaks the scheme[..]

I thought the same, after a look-through the genarated xml file.
I always use the latest Opera versions and your methode unfortunately dont work in newer builds.

Edit: another Bug(bold Text):
First Line:"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"? version="2.0" version="2.0">"

justice · « **Reply #31 on:** March 11, 2008, 04:41 PM »

Loops problems in combination with a inperfect xml parser create this horrible mess of code

apfel · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2008, 09:12 PM »

I found a (maybe) useful ahk xml function library.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17549

TucknDar · « **Reply #33 on:** July 19, 2008, 01:03 PM »

major bump

Just had a bit of an annoying "debugging" of this, since the xml insisted on titling feeds things like -maxage:7 and -nosub (commandline parameters I've used). Turned out folder-rss needs specific order of parameters to have both correct title and save to specified xml:

Code

folder-rss.exe "d:\the\dir\to\watch" -maxage:7 -only:folders [-or other parameters] d:\the\output.xml

from about, which didn't work:

Code

folder-rss [-nosub,-only:files|folders|*.ext,+r,+h,+s] <sourcefolder> <destination.xml>

so essentially should be in this order:

Code

folder-rss <sourcefolder> [-nosub,-only:files|folders|*.ext,+r,+h,+s] <destination.xml>

midion · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2009, 05:42 AM »

Can someone help me to make it so this program does this?
EXAMPLE
Files in C:\wamp\www\downloads\snes\D\

RSS File @ "http://www.snesroms.com/rssfiles/SNES_D.xml" shows output like below.

Double Dragon I <-this is a clickable hyperlink to file
Double Dragon II
Double Dradon III

So when ever I drop a file into the folder or take one out it auto-updates the RSS Feed.

I over 1,178 folders and a little over 31,284 files to manage. So using RSS feeds seems like the best way to go.

The webserver is mine and I just remote into at it's datacenter. In all I will be making 1,178 seperate rss feeds. One feed for each folder. So If I have to move files from place to place. Everything would auto-update.

ghacks · « **Reply #35 on:** January 28, 2009, 01:41 PM »

I'm still getting an error when uploading the created file to http://www.validome.org/rss-atom/validate telling me

Syntax error within XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"? version="2.0" version="2.0">).
Check the XML declaration (z.B. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) on the basis of the W3C specification

I'm using the example.bat file and upload it directly.

justice · « **Reply #36 on:** January 28, 2009, 03:08 PM »

I've started a list of issues reported in this thread and around the web to sort out in a round of updates. Valid xml is top of the list. Development of my utilities have been a bit abandoned unfortunately, sorry about that.

hpearce · « **Reply #37 on:** January 28, 2009, 03:48 PM »

file://localhost/C:/Temp/install.xml added to Opera

read feed produces nothing

xml seems to have valkid data in it

Bonewalker · « **Reply #38 on:** January 28, 2009, 04:47 PM »

This might go against the grain of what you are trying to do, but would it be possible/feasible to add an option to simply send an email rather than/in addition to an rss feed so that one wouldn't have to install a web service?

Just an idea off the top of my head. Be nice to monitor servers across a network without the added vulnerability of a web service.

Thanks for the interesting app.

dragonmage · « **Reply #39 on:** April 23, 2009, 06:46 PM »

I have an idea to use this with Rainmeter. The concept would be to create a Rainmeter config to display an icon. Rainmeter would periodically run Folder-RSS. If changes are found it would change the icon to indicate it. Clicking on the icon would then open another config to display the changes that have been made.

Does this sound possible? Also what kind of performance hit is there while it scans the folder for changes?

dragonmage · « **Reply #40 on:** April 26, 2009, 07:46 AM »

Could Folder-RSS also put File Count and Folder Size totals into the feed?
That would be pretty handy.

DavidA_UK · « **Reply #41 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:51 PM »

With Justice's permission, I've continued the development of this great app. The original version didn't do quite what I wanted so I learned the programming language and made some changes. You can download it here along with the source code.

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mouser · « **Reply #42 on:** May 22, 2009, 11:07 PM »

Great David!!
And welcome to the site

Is the lastest version available from http://justice.dcmembers.com/pages/download.php ?

DavidA_UK · « **Reply #43 on:** May 22, 2009, 11:19 PM »

It's not on Justice's site.

I noticed an 11th hour problem so deleted the link for a moment. Link above (to v0.92) should work now.

mouser · « **Reply #44 on:** May 22, 2009, 11:24 PM »

Ok that explains it -- i didn't see any download link is why i asked

but i see it's there now.
Thank you for sharing.. maybe you could post a list of changes to the original (i dont mean changes line by line i mean a list of new features, etc.).

DavidA_UK · « **Reply #45 on:** May 22, 2009, 11:32 PM »

Folder-RSS v0.92
- Added user interface
- Added the ability to save settings
- Added repeat mode
- Added a mode to replace the local path with a web path
- Added a second link mode to the RSS feed using the GUID RSS tag
- Added the ability to title the RSS feed
- Added ability to hide the filename extensions in the RSS feed

justice · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:56 AM »

A late reaction, as you can see David has been doing some excellent work on Folder-RSS. Sad truth is that I don't use the program regularly enough to put in the time to keep it updated. So I'm discussing with David what the best way forward is.

Once that's clearer then I'll update information where neccessary, with regards to dcupdate etc to help people move over

Ramis · « **Reply #47 on:** August 18, 2009, 09:08 AM »

Hi guys, i just found out about folder-rss and i think its great! I wanted this functionality some time ago and programmed my own tool FolderFeed to do just this using XML serialization in .Net to produce valid RSS 2.0 xml data, i noticed that your tool had some problems with producing valid xml, so you might find it interesting. Would want to help out.

You can download the tool and source code at:
http://ramis.mine.nu/folderfeed/

DavidA_UK · « **Reply #48 on:** October 05, 2009, 09:12 PM »

Seems like Ramis is going in a different direction with FolderFeed. The more the merrier.

Just to say that I have my version a permanent home here. Contact me if you want new features.

bluedog9300 · « **Reply #49 on:** February 21, 2011, 07:31 PM »

Quote from: justice on May 09, 2007, 01:03 PM

Code

* repacked with the latest autohotkey - no more false positives from certain virus scanners
* support for Mouser's DcUpdater (let me know if this works well for you - folder-rss checks for updates on start, will make this an option
* new options thanks to donationcoder member requests:
  -only:files|folders = Only include files (-only:files) or folders (-only:folders) (Default is both)
  -only:*.ext = Only include *.ext files (eg. change to *.mp3 to include mp3 files only). (default = *.*)
  -maxage:`<number`> = Only show results last modified within the last `<number`> days (default=14)
  -maxitems:<number> = Only show up to <number> feeditems (default = 100)
* started work on graphical user interface for next version.

I haven't been able to use the syntax for options such as maxitems or file types. Please make it so I can just copy and paste.

The examples given show Maxage has single quotes while Maxitems does not
... I capitalized for clarity btw.