It recently occurred to me that a certain website that I check regularly could be given an unofficial RSS feed by writing a script to pull in data from its SOAP interface and spit it out as a feed. Not many websites have SOAP interfaces, but this one does, and while I’m not sure they created it to allow third-party RSS feeds in particular, I’m sure they don’t mind if I just use it for my own secret consumption. That means I won’t be disclosing which site it is that my script is accessing, although the general principle about how to write a script like this should be more useful anyway. Of course I used PHP for the script, because that’s what webhosts support, so if you want a version written in a nice language like Groovy I’m afraid you’ll have to port this script to that language.
