SlashPluck
by Jason Day <jason@jlogday.com>
http://www.jlogday.com

SlashPluck fetches headlines, stories, and comments from Slashdot
(http://slashdot.org) and formats them in a friendly way for Plucker
(http://www.plkr.org).  The content is stored as html files in a directory
accessible by plucker.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
more details.

REQUIREMENTS

NOTE I have only tested this version on GNU/Linux systems. It should work on
Windows or OSX, provided the xsltproc binary is in the path.

    * Perl. Windows binaries can be downloaded from ActiveState. Cygwin will work as well.
    * libwww-perl
    * libxslt
    * Plucker


INSTALLATION

Unpack the slashpluck-x.xx.tar.gz tarball to a temporary directory. If you
wish, open slashpluck.pl in a text editor and change the value of the
$directory variable. This variable specifies where the HTML output from
slashpluck will go. By default, the directory is $HOME/.slashpluck. You can
also change the article threshold if you wish. The default value is 3.

Create the directory specified by the $directory variable above, and copy the
article.xsl file to this directory. For example:

$ mkdir $HOME/.slashpluck
$ cp article.xsl $HOME/.slashpluck

Finally, put the slashpluck.pl file somewhere on your path.

After running slashpluck.pl, you should have several HTML files in your
.slashpluck directory, ready for plucking. You will probably get several XSLT
warnings and/or errors, but you can ignore those. If you wish, you can open
the headlines.html file in your browser.