I want to programmatically check if a site has feeds. How can I do that?
Are there standard feed locations? Parsing the code for link tags with application/rss+xml attribute would be enough?
Thank you.
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Parsing the code for link tags with application/rss+xml attribute would be enough?
As far as I know, it is the only standard way to discover feeds. But that is no guarantee that you'll find them all.
troelskn
2010-07-17 19:27:21
Just to spare the next one the momentary confusion I had, we're talking about actualy `<link>` tags here, not `<a>` tags; and yes, as far as I know this is the standard way +1
Michael Haren
2010-07-17 19:29:57
Thank you very much both!
john
2010-07-17 19:34:27
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You might want to read this resource for information on discovering feeds. Replace "application/atom+xml" with "application/rss+xml" as necessary.
Fraxtil
2010-07-17 19:35:08
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Use the Zend_Feed classes from Zend_Framwework. Zend_Feed::findFeeds does what you want.
StrangeElement
2010-07-17 19:54:34