Update FeedDemon Watches with AutoIt

FeedDemon RSS reader among others things has Watches functions. Instead of specific RSS it searches feeds for keywords and combines found items together into mashup.

It works very well except that manual input of keywords is too troublesome to create complex Watches. I wanted to create Watch integrated with Appnews internals and started to look for external keywords edit.

feeddemon_watches

Watch format

I remembered that when setting up new backup routine for Cobian Backup (inspired by my computer meltdown, yeah I am still talking about that) I saw Watches saved with rest of FeedDemon settings in:

C:\Documents and Settings\[profile]\Local Settings\Application Data
\FeedDemon\v1\Watches\

That folder has bunch of files with really cryptic names and .RSSW extensions. Inside each file is XML that holds all setting for a watch, including set of keywords:

Something like this:

<watch xmlns:fd="http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/xmlns/1.0/"
version="1.6" fd:feedId="D40C7E27-19C1-45FF-AE7A-3B85054531BF"
fd:autoPurgeEnabled="true" fd:autoPurgeMaxItems="50">
<em><title>Appnews</title><</em>fd:state
fd:numUnread="0" fd:numFlagged="0" fd:numTotal="50"/>
<location title="true" description="false"/><options wholeWords="true"
matchCase="false" matchAllWords="false" markReadInSourceFeed="false"/>
<em><keyword>Appnews</keyword></</em>watch>

So after creating Watch in FeedDemon I can find it by