theCHIVE RSS Funny Feed plugin - Get your daily dose of ridiculous on InkyPi

[Shadal18]

Here’s a theCHIVE Funny RSS plugin for InkyPi.
It pulls the newest image from theCHIVE’s “Funny” feed and shows it full‑frame on your e‑paper display with an optional title bar.

Repository

• GitHub repository: https://github.com/shadal18/inkypi-thechive-rss-funny

Install

inkypi plugin install thechive_rss_funny https://github.com/shadal18/inkypi-thechive-rss-funny

Features

• Fetches the latest post from theCHIVE Funny RSS feed
• Extracts the main image via media:content / media:thumbnail (with HTML fallback)
• Downloads and scales the image to fit the Inky display while preserving aspect ratio
• Centers the image for a clean “photo frame” look
• Optional title bar overlay showing theCHIVE post title at the bottom
• Graceful error handling with on‑screen messages if the feed or image fails

Details

The plugin reads theCHIVE Funny RSS feed, grabs the most recent <item>, and looks for an image in the media tags or the <description> HTML.
Once it has an image URL, it downloads it, converts it for the Inky display, scales it to your panel size, and renders it centered with an optional title bar using the post title.
It’s built as a standard InkyPi plugin, so it runs on the same refresh schedule and styling system as the rest of your frames.

Screenshots

• Main plugin display showing a theCHIVE Funny image