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RSS GOSSIP
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I have tried to use a very simple Python module to read the contents of an RSS feed and look for a key phrase using a C program.
Using different process to search from different RSS feeds. A lot of system call is involved in the C code. 

For example, to look for stories about 'Snooki' in the MSN Entertainment feed, you can do this:

1. create a file named links and paste http://www.msn.com/rss/MsnEntertainment.aspx in it.
2. ./rss_feed 'Snooki'

Why does the script configure the feed using an environment variable? Because this module was written as 
an example program for the book Head First C (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920015482.do). The book
needed an example external program that required command line arguments as well as environment variables.

If you want the script to search more than one feed, set RSS_FEED a list of space-separated URLs.

The search string can be a regular expression. So:

 ./rssgossip.py 'lohan|britney|kardashian'

will find stories containing any of the three names.
License
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    rss_feed - Copyright (c) Santosh Kumar Shaw 2017

    rss_feed is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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