this ads an error log into the RSS feed loop, logging which URLs fail parsing

smhnRSS.pl

@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ use HTML::Entities; # https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Entities
 # server file folders
 # my $rssFilePath = "/home/USER_FOLDER/public_html/feed.xml";
 # my $htmlFilePath = "/home/USER_FOLDER/public_html/index.html";
+# my $errorFilePath = "/home/USER_FOLDER/public_html/feed.log";
 
 # local file folders
 my $rssFilePath = "feed.xml";
 my $htmlFilePath = "index.html";
+my $errorFilePath = "feed.log";
 
 ###################################
 #  RSS Configurations 
@@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ my %list;
 # Make the list of URLS while parsing DATA
 my $listHTML = "<div class=\'listHTML\'><ul>\n";
 
+# Make a list of URLs that have an error
+my $listURLError = "The following feeds had issues this time:\n\n" . $now->strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'). "\n\n";
+
 # Go through each URL in the DATA section and make the new list
 while ( my $url = <DATA>) {
     chomp $url;
@@ -76,7 +81,12 @@ while ( my $url = <DATA>) {
 	# parse the XML
     my $rss1 = XML::RSS->new;
     eval { $rss1->parse( $xml ) };
-    next if $@;
+    
+    # if empty, add URL to log file variable
+ 	if ($@) {
+    	$listURLError .= "* " . $url . "\n";
+    	next; 
+    }; # if $@
     
     # go through the items from the XML
     for (my $j = 0; $j <= $number_of_items; $j++){
@@ -138,6 +148,14 @@ while ( my $url = <DATA>) {
 #close out the list URL html
 $listHTML .= "</ul></div>\n";
 
+###################################
+#  Write the error file 
+###################################
+
+open(FH, '>', $errorFilePath) or die $!;
+print FH $listURLError;
+close(FH);
+
 ###################################
 #  Make an RSS Feed! 
 ###################################
@@ -204,6 +222,9 @@ my $printDate = formatDate($rss2->{'channel'}{'pubDate'});
 # header for a direct HTML post 
 my $html_header = "Status: 200\nContent-type: text/html\n\n";
 
+
+
+
 ###################################
 #   Make the HTML Page
 ###################################
@@ -335,6 +356,7 @@ sub formatDate {
 
 __DATA__
 https://ecatherine.com/feed/
+https://lynnehansen.zenfolio.com/blog.rss
 https://redlagoe.com/feed/
 https://diebooth.wordpress.com/feed/
 https://kelliowen.com/feed/
@@ -362,6 +384,5 @@ http://robertfordauthor.com/feed/
 https://tinyfrights.com/feed/
 https://weightlessbooks.com/feed/
 https://www.crystallakepub.com/feed/
-https://lynnehansen.zenfolio.com/blog.rss
 https://www.bevvincent.com/feed/
 http://liviallewellyn.com/feed/