[Guide] Variables of a Skin.ini

RSS feed example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
  <item>
    <title>Entry 2</title>
    <link>https://www.example.com/blog/post/2</link>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title>Entry 1</title>
    <link>https://www.example.com/blog/post/1</link>
  </item>
</channel>
</rss>

📝 Rainmeter\Skins\FeedMoe\{something}\Skin.ini

[Variables]
@Include1=#@#Variables.inc
@Include2=#@#Languages\#LANG_FILE#
@Include3=#@#FeedMoe.RSS2.inc

FEED_URL=https://news.yahoo.com/rss
ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE="(?si)^(?(?!https://(?:[0-9a-z-]+\.)?yahoo\.com/).+)":""

FEED_TITLE=
ITEM_TITLE_SUBSTITUTE=
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_DARK=3E007E
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_LIGHT=3E007E

Variable Name	Type	Description	Examples
FEED_URL	string, required value	RSS 2.0/Atom or RSS 1.0 Feed URL	FEED_URL=https://news.yahoo.com/rss
ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE	string, blank allowed	"pattern":"replacement", this value is for security purposes. This example, it verify the <link> address of each <item> and if it does not match, the <item> will not be displayed.	ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE="(?si)^(?(?!https://(?:[0-9a-z-]+\.)?yahoo\.com/).+)":""
FEED_TITLE	string, blank allowed	You can define your own title to the skin header.	FEED_TITLE=Yahoo! News
ITEM_TITLE_SUBSTITUTE	string, blank allowed	"pattern":"replacement", this value is for keyword filtering or shortening a word. You can hide the topics those you don't need.	ITEM_TITLE_SUBSTITUTE="(?si)^.*?\b(?:alpha|beta)\b.*":""
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_DARK	hexadecimal numbers, blank allowed	[Red:00-FF][Green:00-FF][Blue:00-FF], Color for Dark mode theme. You can't specify decimal colors. (255,153,0) convertacolor.com	COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_DARK=FF9900
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_LIGHT	hexadecimal numbers, blank allowed	[Red:00-FF][Green:00-FF][Blue:00-FF], Color for Light mode theme. You can't specify decimal colors. (255,153,0) convertacolor.com	COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_LIGHT=FF9900

💡 Skin.ini files are encoded as UTF-16 LE BOM

Measure Substitute - Rainmeter Docs
Regular expressions

　

💡 Minimum definication of a Skin.ini for feeds.

[Variables]
@Include1=#@#Variables.inc
@Include2=#@#Languages\#LANG_FILE#
@Include3=#@#FeedMoe.RSS2.inc

FEED_URL=https://news.yahoo.com/rss
ITEM_LINK_SUBSTITUTE=

FEED_TITLE=
ITEM_TITLE_SUBSTITUTE=
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_DARK=
COLOR_BACKGROUND_HEADER_LIGHT=