Gammu_RssTail

Receive rss by sms using python-rsstail and gammu

Requirements

1. Debian/Ubuntu/...
2. A cellphone who works with gammu. See list here of supported phones here.
3. gammu : Who will provide the ability to control your phone from a computer. Install it with sudo apt-get install gammu
4. rsstail : the python version not the original. This tools will output to the terminal the rss. You can install it with pip : pip install rsstail To install pip check this post on StackOverFlow.

Configuration

• First connect your phone with usb cable or bluetooth to your computer. Thanks to Mathieu Lallemand who did a great post for the Sony K750i.

• Configure the phone using gammu-config in your terminal and set parameters who can be found on the gammu phone database.
• To test your phone simply do an echo "My first message" | /usb/bin/gammu --send SMS TEXT +*yournumber* You can get all the available command of gammu here.
• Grab your rss feeds. Like in my example the football results of the french Ligue 1 (I did this bot for a friend who loves football). My rss in the example looks like this : http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml.
• Put it in rsstail like : rsstail http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml I have to force encoding because of the type of my rss feed who have some problems (W3C say Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"). So for me the command is PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml with --nofail to don't exit if I have errors, and PYTHONIOENCODING to force utf8 encoding.
• We had the option to sort only the last line with -n 1 and format it a little bit --format 'Football News: {title} the {updated}' After we had :

Title: Ligue 1 : Rennes - PSG (score final : 1-3) 

Title: Ligue 1 : Rennes - PSG en direct   

Title: Ligue 1 : Montpellier - Saint-Etienne (score final : 0-1)  

Title: Ligue 1 : Montpellier - Saint-Etienne en direct

Now we have :

 Football News: Ligue 1 : PSG - Lille (score final : 2-2) the 2014/01/19 21:45:00

• But we have a problem. We want only feed with "score" mentioned. For that we use grepwith the option --line-buffered otherwise it will doesn't work. We will have :

PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail -n 1 --format 'Football News: {title} the {updated}' http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml | grep --line-buffered "score"

• We will now pipe it using a while ... read loop to run command on every new line.

while read line  
do  
command  
done

• We will modify a little bit the gammu command adding -text to specify the text submitted. The loop will look like :

while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done

• With everything together we will have this :

user@host:~# PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 rsstail --nofail --format 'Football News: {title} the {updated}' http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml | grep --line-buffered "score" | while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done

Use it with multiple phone numbers

I've finaly creat a script to be able to run with multiple phone numbers. Check gammu_rsstail.sh file.

#! /bin/bash
#Below put cellphone number like tel="068888888 068898989"
tel=""
#See this link to help you to format the rssfeed : http://python-rsstail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
rsstail --nofail -n 2 --format 'Football News: {title} le {updated}' http://www.matchendirect.fr/rss/foot-ligue-1-c10.xml | grep --line-buffered "score" | while read line
do for t in $tel
        do echo -e $t
done
echo $line
done

Enjoy !

Thanks to help of RssTail team and also Roux.