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Get the latest posts from Zoho Blogs posted in the last hour and send an email via Google Apps Script
function readAndSend() {
let url = 'https://www.zoho.com/blog/feed';
let xml = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
let document = XmlService.parse(xml.trim());
let root = document.getRootElement();
let channel = root.getChild('channel');
let items = channel.getChildren('item');
for(i =0; i< items.length; i++){
let item = items[i];
let pubDateStr = item.getChild('pubDate').getText();
let pubDate = new Date(pubDateStr);
let now =new Date();
let lastHour = now.getTime() - (1000*60*60);
let postedInTheLastHour = pubDate.getTime() > lastHour;
if(!postedInTheLastHour) {
continue;
}
let title = item.getChild('title').getText();
let categories = item.getChildren('category');
let label = categories[0].getText();
let link = item.getChild('link').getText();
let description = item.getChild('description').getText();
console.log(pubDate,lastHour , postedInTheLastHour)
let subject = title + " - " + label;
let desInd = description.lastIndexOf('<p>The post ');
description = description.substring(0,desInd);
description = '<h4><a rel="nofollow" href="' + link +'">'+ subject + '</a></h4>' + description;
GmailApp.sendEmail('[email protected]', subject, description, {
htmlBody: description,
from: "[email protected]",
name: "your name"
});
}
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