You can use this LotusScript code to retrieve any kind of RSS feed, XML document on the Web, or Google news feed from inside the Lotus Notes client.
Note: This only works on Microsoft Windows.
Sub Click(Source As Button)
' This script fetches News
feeds from Google from within the Lotus Notes client
' You could apply this technique
to any site that return RSS or XML format.
' Use the xpath query to change
what you want to return
' This script requires Microsoft Windows.
' 1. Create a new form, and a field called Result
' 2. Make the field allow multiple
values and separate on new line
' 3. Create a new button and paste
in the LotusScript
' 4 Preview the form, click the button
and enter a search query
Dim nodes As Variant,
xpath As Variant,xmldoc As Variant
Dim ws As New notesuiworkspace,
q As Variant,url As String
Dim doc As notesdocument,
item As notesitem,v As Integer
Set doc = ws.currentdocument.document
q =Evaluate(|@ReplaceSubstring
("| + Inputbox("Query","Enter Query",
"volvo") + |";" ";"+")|)
Print Implode(q)
Set xmlDoc=CreateObject
("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async="false"
url = "http://news.google.se/news?hl=sv&q="
+ Implode(q) + "&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&output=rss"
xmldoc.load(url)
xpath="/rss/channel/item/title"
Set nodes=xmlDoc.selectNodes(xpath)
doc.Result = ""
If doc.IsNewNote Then Call doc.Save(False,False)
Set item = doc.GetFirstItem("Result")
Forall x In nodes
v = v + 1
Call item.AppendToTextList(Cstr(v) + ". " + x.text)
End Forall
End Sub
MEMBER FEEDBACK TO THIS TIP
This is a nice tip, but you should take note that the sample LotusScript provided retrieves items from Google Sweden in Swedish. Change the url= line to
url = "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=" + Implode(q) + "&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&output=rss" to get results in English from Google.com.
—John H.
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