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.
Component Source Code
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Detailed description
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Examples
No additional examples
Macro reference
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GetURL |
| Get Selected News Item URL | |
 - STRING
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Return |
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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
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ItemNumber |
| Headline Index To Read | |
| - UINT
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Return |
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GetTitle |
| Get Selected News Item Title | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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GetDescription |
| Get Selected News Item Description | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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Initialise |
| Sets up the component ready to collect news data. | |
 - VOID
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Return |
Property reference
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Properties |
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LinkTo |
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BBC IP Address |
| IP Address linked to the following URL: weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk | |
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News Feed |
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Feed URL |
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Receive Timeout |
| Maximum time to wait for valid incoming data. | |
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Data |
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Record Title |
| Stores the news topic title into RAM. | |
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Title Buffer Size |
| Number of bytes to allocate to storing titles. | |
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Record Description |
| Stores the news topic description into RAM. | |
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Record URL |
| Records the news topics full story URL into RAM | |
==Macro reference==
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GetURL |
| Get Selected News Item URL | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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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
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ItemNumber |
| Headline Index To Read | |
| - UINT
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Return |
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GetTitle |
| Get Selected News Item Title | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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GetDescription |
| Get Selected News Item Description | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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Initialise |
| Sets up the component ready to collect news data. | |
| - VOID
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Return |
Property reference
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Properties |
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LinkTo |
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BBC IP Address |
| IP Address linked to the following URL: weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk | |
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News Feed |
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Feed URL |
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Receive Timeout |
| Maximum time to wait for valid incoming data. | |
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Data |
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Record Title |
| Stores the news topic title into RAM. | |
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Title Buffer Size |
| Number of bytes to allocate to storing titles. | |
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Record Description |
| Stores the news topic description into RAM. | |
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Record URL |
| Records the news topics full story URL into RAM | |
==Macro reference==
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GetURL |
| Get Selected News Item URL | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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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
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ItemNumber |
| Headline Index To Read | |
| - UINT
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Return |
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GetTitle |
| Get Selected News Item Title | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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GetDescription |
| Get Selected News Item Description | |
| - STRING
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Return |
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Initialise |
| Sets up the component ready to collect news data. | |
| - VOID
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Return |
Property reference
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Properties |
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LinkTo |
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BBC IP Address |
| IP Address linked to the following URL: weather-broker-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk | |
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News Feed |
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Feed URL |
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Receive Timeout |
| Maximum time to wait for valid incoming data. | |
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Data |
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Record Title |
| Stores the news topic title into RAM. | |
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Title Buffer Size |
| Number of bytes to allocate to storing titles. | |
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Record Description |
| Stores the news topic description into RAM. | |
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Record URL |
| Records the news topics full story URL into RAM | |