[_] RSS -> SMS
Andy Davies
dajdavies at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 16:44:22 GMT 2008
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Tim Beadle <tim.beadle at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote: > > It's http://twitter.com/UK_M5_Traffic > > > > The only tweet there at the moment used the title from the feed and > > doesn't contain enough information to be useful. I've changed it to > > use the description instead but have to wait until something else > > happens on the M5 before I can check it again! > > > > In case anyone is interested the pipe I'm using is here: > > http://pipes.yahoo.com/andydavies/m5traffic > > From the other highways.gov.uk -derived pipes, it looks like there's a > dedicated feed for the M5 so perhaps the Pipes stage is unnecessary in > this case? > http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/M5.xml > Didn't spot the other feeds hiding in the top right corner so yes I guess pipes isn't needed unless a few feeds need mixing together, or need filtering... We live just off M5 jn 13, my wife works in Aztec West and I work in Cheltenham so the M5 is pretty much all we're interested but there are good possibilities for other routes - one of the guys here commutes from Chepstow and now wants me to show him how to do this for his route! Andy