Get news articles from RSS feeds and send them to Instapaper

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How to use this script

Just execute the script by specifying your Instapaper username, password and any number of rss feeds

php getnews.php [username] [password] [rss feed]...

getnews.php

<?php
    function http_response($url, $status = null, $wait = 1) 
    { 
        $ch = curl_init(); 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE); 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE); // remove body 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 
        $head = curl_exec($ch); 
        $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); 
        curl_close($ch); 
        
        if(!$head) 
        { 
            return FALSE; 
        } 
        
        if($status == $httpCode) 
        { 
            return TRUE; 
        } 
        
        return FALSE; 

        sleep($wait);
    }

    if (isset($argv[1]) && isset($argv[2]) && isset($argv[3])) {

        $username = $argv[1];
        $password = $argv[2];

        $doc = new DOMDocument();

        for ($i = 3; $i < count($argv); $i++) {
            // Read RSS Feed
            $doc->load($argv[$i]);
            $arrFeeds = array();
            foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
                $itemRSS = array ( 
                    'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
                    'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
                    'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
                    'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue
                );
                array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
            }

            // Loop through all articles and add each to Instapaper
            foreach ($arrFeeds as $article) {
                $url = 'https://instapaper.com/api/add?username='.$username.'&password='.$password.'&url='.urlencode($article['link']).'&title='.urlencode($article['title']).'&selection='.urlencode($article['desc']);

                echo "Adding: ".$article['link']."...";

                if (http_response($url, '201')) {
                    echo "added!\n";
                } else {
                    echo "error! [code: ".$httpCode."]\n";
                }

            }

        }

        echo "All done!\n";

    } else {
        echo "Please specify an Instapaper username, password and at least 1 RSS feed\n";
    }

?>