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Converting RSS Feeds to HTML with Perl

By Paul Anderson / May 11, 2018 — Web

There is an old perl script called rss2html.pl available here that will convert XML feeds to HTML..

Let’s take the Security Focus feed (http://www.securityfocus.com/rss/vulnerabilities.xml) and create some HTML:

perl rss2html.pl http://www.securityfocus.com/rss/vulnerabilities.xml

Here is what the output looks like when rendered:

SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

Vuln: TWiki Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
Vuln: OpenOffice Arbitrary Macro Execution Vulnerability
Vuln: OpenOffice Java Applet System Access Vulnerability
Vuln: OpenOffice XML File Format Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Bugtraq: rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel
Bugtraq: PBL Guestbook <= 1.32 XSS & SQL Querys Vulnerabilities
Bugtraq: WebEx Downloader Plug-in Multiple Vulnerabilities + rant
Bugtraq: Pivot <=1.30rc2 privilege escalation / remote commands execution

Paul Anderson

Paul is an Avid Tech Geek who Loves writing, Cycling and All Things Linux! He comes from a Background of Windows Administration along with Ubuntu/Centos Server administration. Paul holds industry wide certifications include CompTIA & Microsoft Accredited certifications.

Converting RSS Feeds to HTML with Perl

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