RSS Querys

[Alberto Ruiz <arc gulic org>]

Hi everyone,

I've spent this weekend writing a scrapper of the Wallpaper request on 
art.gnome.org to build an rss with the wallpapers as <enclosure .../>, 
the same tag that podcasts uses for the mp3/ogg/whatever, which is the 
standard tag for multimedia attachments on items, an example of the 
generated rss can be found here:

http://synaptia.net/~arc/rss.xml

I've also developed a prototype application written in python that 
downloads the rss it parses (with pilgrim's feedparser.py) and show you 
a list of the wallpapers, the aplication SyBGFeed and the scrapper 
SyArtGnomeRSSize can be found here:

http://synaptia.net/~arc/syartgnomerssize-0.0.1.tar.gz
http://synaptia.net/~arc/sybgfeed-0.0.1.tar.gz

The idea behind all this, is to enable, from art.gnome.org (and then try 
to standarize it to see it on gnome-look.org and others sites) some kind 
of rss standarization for theming stuff.

So, I'm asking for some kind of rss-on-demand script to get the lastest 
[App Themes|Wallpapers|MCity Themes|...], or the popular ones, etc... 
something like this:

http://art.gnome.org/rssapi.php?class=wallpaper&sort=lastest&count=10&resolution=1600x1200

In order to generate an rss which has the lastest 10 1600x1200's wallpapers.

Of course, resolution thing wouldn't be needed for gtk themes for example.

Right now I'm generating the rss with the scrapper, so if the 
webmaster[s] can write something like this I'd be very happy so I can 
spent more time developing the other prototypes (metacity, gtk...) and 
less time with the scrapper.

Suggestion, comments and patches are welcome.

Thanks.
Alberto Ruiz
http://synaptia.org