the alpha newswire

So I have to admit that after watching some Kitchen 4B, I developed a bit of a crush on Jill Santopietro. Unfortunately, The Moment only has a single RSS feed for the entire blog, and this includes a bunch of content I’m not particularly interested in. But with some quick Hpricot magic, I quickly whipped up a script to use in NetNewsWire. (Also, much love for NetNewsWire enabling me to create subscriptions to scripts such as these.)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems' # Since I"m too lazy to set the RUBYOPTS
                   # environment variable for NetNewsWire

require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot.XML(open('http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/atom/'))

(doc/:entry).reject {|entry| (entry/:author/:name).inner_text =~ /Jill Santopietro/ }.remove

puts doc.to_html

Edit: I’ve since replaced this script with a Yahoo Pipe, as this allows me to view this feed in both Google Reader and NetNewsWire.