Component: BBC News (Comms: IoT/Cloud)

Author	MatrixTSL
Version	1.0
Category	Comms: IoT/Cloud

BBC News component

Easily allows you to collect the news headlines and stories from the BBC RSS feed.

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Downloadable macro reference

	GetURL
Get Selected News Item URL
- STRING	Return

	RequestData
Requests data about your selected location from the BBC news service. Returns the number of headlines if the request was successful. Must be called before trying to call any of the GetXXX macros.
- UINT	ItemNumber
Headline Index To Read
- UINT	Return

	GetTitle
Get Selected News Item Title
- STRING	Return

	GetDescription
Get Selected News Item Description
- STRING	Return

	Initialise
Sets up the component ready to collect news data.
- VOID	Return

Property reference

	Properties
	Network Comms Component
Network Communications component to use as the bridge to the TCP/IP network.
	BBC IP Address
IP Address linked to the following URL: weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk
	News Feed
	Feed URL
	Receive Timeout
Maximum time to wait for valid incoming data.
	Record Title
Stores the news topic title into RAM.
	Title Buffer Size
Number of bytes to allocate to storing titles.
	Record Description
Stores the news topic description into RAM.
	Record URL
Records the news topics full story URL into RAM
	Connections
	Simulations