6 Automatic Processing

Apart from automatic marking of headlines (by means of filters) Newsticker provides the possibility to fully process newly arrived headlines. Instead of reading headlines yourself you can tell Newsticker to do that for you.

In order to do so write a function which takes three arguments

FEED

the name of the corresponding news feed,

TITLE

the title of the headline,

DESC

the decoded description of the headline.

and add it to newsticker-new-item-functions. Each function contained in this list is called once for each new headline. Depending on the feed, the title and the description of a headline you can

• automatically download images referenced in HTML-formatted descriptions (for which a function already exists, see newsticker-download-images),
• automatically save enclosed audio and video files (for which another function exists as well, see newsticker-download-images),
• flash the screen while playing some sound,
• whatever you want.