venus: CSV for subscription list

[Alf Eaton]

On 01 Aug 2007, at 00:48, Sam Ruby wrote:

> Alf Eaton wrote:
>> On 31 Jul 2007, at 20:15, Sam Ruby wrote:
>>> In any case, would you happen to have a sample spreadsheet  
>>> showing what your thinking was on this subject?
>> Here's a simple example, with just URL and name columns:
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p- 
>> hC6jVAyS8mYXZqf5lboKw&output=csv
>
> If you pull the latest Venus, the support should now be there.  You  
> still need a configuration file, and you can put whatever you want  
> in that configuration file, however what you can now do is add  
> something like the following in that configuration file to pull in  
> your subscriptions:
>
> [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p- 
> hC6jVAyS8mYXZqf5lboKw&output=csv]
> content_type = csv
>
> Notes: the name of the first column doesn't matter, that column  
> will be the section name (which generally means the URI of the  
> feed).  The remaining column names are used to determine the option  
> name.  It can be name, face, ignore_in_feed, or whatever you like.   
> But be aware that these names are case sensitive.  In particular,  
> you will need to modify your example to make the second column  
> 'name' as opposed to 'Name'.
>
> Please let us know how this works out for you.

As far as I can tell, that worked perfectly (I only tested the 'name'  
field, not the others). Thanks!

alf.