Gossiper

What is Gossiper?

Gossiper is an Emesene 1.x plugin for reading feeds. Gossiper can read virtually any feed on the web and creates a nice unobstrusive ticker at the bottom of your contact list (download here right-clic “Save as…”).

Requisites

  • Gossiper was tested on Emesene 1.5+.
  • Python feedparser.  Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

Installing Gossiper

  1. Download gossiper.py (right-clic “Save as…”)
  2. Move it to ~/.config/emesene1.0/pluginsEmesene
  3. Restart Emesene
  4. Enable Gossip plugin, don’t forget to add your feed url.

Using Gossiper

  • Gossiper for reading blog headlines: Just paste the feed url into the “Feed Source” box. Try: http://zarzamora.com.mx/feed
  • Gossiper for reading news feeds: Paste the feed URL into the “Feed Source” box. Try: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/rss/universalmxm.xml
  • Gossiper for following a Twitter user: Go to the users’s page, find the Feed URL and use it!. Try: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14044962.rssgossiper-emesene-twitter
  • Gossiper to have Windows Live Messenger-like contact ticker: Go to http://home.live.com/ and start session, then find the feed at the bottom, copy and paste it in the Feed Box. This works even if you don’t have a hotmail account, just use your MSN identity.
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  • Gossiper for other exotic feeds: Have any other feeds? Server monitoring? logging? pet monitoring? weird stuff?, just paste the feed!.

Screenshots

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Download Gossiper

Get Gossiper 1.0! (right-clic “Save as…”)

FAQ & Troubleshooting

1. I get: “Exception importing gossiper No module named feedparser”

Remember, you need python feedparser. In ubuntu use: sudo apt-get install python-feedparser