Jeffrey Vanneste

Ipod and Bloglines

12 November 2004

I just bought an Ipod Mini for my girlfriend. In the process of looking for useful tools I found a neat perl script that copies all unread feeds to your Ipod. Being that I’ve never ran any perl scripts on my windows PC before this is what you need to do to get the bloglines script to work.

  1. The bloglines perl script. Get it here. Doesn’t matter where you put this. You will need to edit it to contain your bloglines user ID, password and the drive your Ipod is mounted to.

  2. Active State perl. This will allow you to run perl scripts on your Windows computer. Get it here

  3. WebService-Bloglines module for perl. This needs to be extracted into your active state perl lib directory. If you installed Active State Perl into C:\perl it would create c:\perl\lib\WebService\Bloglines

  4. XML-Rss module for perl. Just download the source from here and save the .pm file in your C:\perl\lib\XML folder.

That’s it. You should now be able to double-click the bloglines perl script and it will sync feeds to your Ipod’s notes folder.