From 600edb6b68173ae931aaa88d74573964d5306224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Physick <96335032+DegustatorPonos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:10 +0500
Subject: Better error handling

---
 .gitignore  |   2 +-
 news        | Bin 702280 -> 702152 bytes
 src/RSS.cpp |  24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6db993a..4327969 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-app 
+news
diff --git a/news b/news
index c6c2332..a0eabba 100755
Binary files a/news and b/news differ
diff --git a/src/RSS.cpp b/src/RSS.cpp
index 93c391d..20c809f 100644
--- a/src/RSS.cpp
+++ b/src/RSS.cpp
@@ -48,18 +48,24 @@ std::string RSS::request() {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteCallback);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &data);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2L);
 
-    auto res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
-    if (res != CURLE_OK) {
-        throw std::runtime_error(std::string("CURL request failed: ") + curl_easy_strerror(res));
+    try {
+        auto res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
+        if (res != CURLE_OK) {
+            // throw std::runtime_error(std::string("CURL request failed: ") + curl_easy_strerror(res));
+            return "";
+        }
+
+        return data;
+    } catch (const std::exception& e) {
+        return "";
     }
-
-    curl_easy_cleanup(curl.get());
-    return data;
 }
 
 void RSS::parse(std::string contents) {
     // std::cout << "starting tokenization..." << std::endl;
+    if (contents.length() == 0) return;
     try {
         auto leaf = XML_leaf(contents).GetChild("channel");
         if (leaf.Raw == "<>") 
@@ -91,6 +97,8 @@ void RSS::print_latest(int minutesSpan) {
     std::tm* gmt_time = std::gmtime(&now);
     gmt_time->tm_min -= minutesSpan;
     auto ticks = std::mktime(gmt_time);
+    // std::cout << "starting time: " << std::put_time(gmt_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") << std::endl;
+
 
     for (auto entry : Entries) {
         if (entry.pubDate.tm_year == 0 || std::mktime(&entry.pubDate) < ticks) break;
@@ -110,10 +118,10 @@ RSS_Entry::RSS_Entry(XML_leaf node) {
 
 void RSS_Entry::print() {
     std::cout 
-        << Title << '\n'
+        << "\033[1m" << Title << "\033[0m" << '\n'
         << std::put_time(&pubDate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") << '\n'
         << Contents << '\n'
-        << URL<< '\n'
+        << URL << '\n'
         << "==============================\n";
 }
 
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