• Feed descriptions are correctly written to disk. I'm not sure how I let them not be.
• Feeds with no items no longer cause Stapler to write badly formed XML. I knew this was happening on and off but never connected it to having no items to write.
• Added radioComments scanner to provide a feed informing you of new comments to your Radio weblog. No example feed, but the scanner doesn't take any options (it reads everything from Radio's settings) so I'm not sure how it could be easier to set up.
• The blogHeadlines scanner ignores titles of "Untitled," abbreviating the item content instead. This is mainly for me, since I have untitled posts automatically given a title of "Untitled."
• The beforeAndAfter scanner has an "Include Before and After strings" option, and scanner options shown in textareas are now properly escaped. I'm scanning a couple actual sites with beforeAndAfter now, so of course, fixes.
• Using the "Subscribe" button only writes the feed to disk if the file didn't already exist.
• Added StaplerSuite.tools.newItem (feed) script for use by scanner authors. I was tired of having to look up and copy the same code over and over to do that, so, refactoring. Yay.

In related news, eVectors RssDistiller is 1.0 now. There's probably a 2.5:1 ratio between Stapler's and RssDistiller's version numbers, or something.

8:03:25 PM     comment []     

Stapler 2.2.0 is now available. Feeds can be exported to and imported from XML files. The beforeAndAfter scanner, which makes items from whatever is between specified strings, is available. Regex scanner now uses patterns of backreferences (eg 1: 2) instead of groups for item data. Stapler provides an option to disable upstreaming in its publishing directory. Scanners' scanner-specific data can be presented in textareas, not just text fields.

8:03:14 PM     comment []     

Stapler 2.1.0 is up. I numbered it 2.1.0 even though it's mostly bug-fixes. I'm still having problems with srcs and hrefs in aggregate feeds being incorrect, but I don't think anyone else is actually using that so I didn't bother to fix it--rather, I wanted to get the fixes that people emailed me about (such as the wunderground scanner being completely broken!) fixed and published.

If the zip file doesn't work on your Mac, sorry, XP itself is the only thing I have to zip with yet. This is me being paranoid, rather than actually thinking Mac users will have a problem with the file.

Some other fixes I need to make, to other things:

• LiveJournal "don't auto-format" option (there already) and exposure in UI (not there yet) for Footbridge
• label fix for Kit's news page
• Just struck me: could Kit's scripts for permalinking convert the dates into base 32 text that would be less than ten characters?

8:03:02 PM     comment []