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Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?

...instead of using the Atom syndication format? Atom is a well-defined, general-purpose XML syndication format. RSS is fractured into four different versions. All the major feed readers have supported Atom for as long as I can remember, so why isn't its use more prevalent? Worst of all are sites that provide feeds in both formats - wh...

RSS/Atom for professional use

I wondered if anyone can give an example of a professional use of RSS/Atom feeds in a company product. Does anyone use feeds for other things than updating news? For example, did you create a product that gives results as RSS/Atom feeds? Like price listings or current inventory, or maybe dates of training lessons? Or am I thinking in a...

How do I parse and convert DateTime's to the RFC 3339 date-time format?

How do I convert a DateTime structure to its equivalent RFC 3339 formatted string representation and/or parse this string representation back to a DateTime structure? The RFC-3339 date-time format is used in a number of specifications such as the Atom Syndication Format. ...

SelectNodes not working on stackoverflow feed

I'm trying to add support for stackoverflow feeds in my rss reader but SelectNodes and SelectSingleNode have no effect. This is probably something to do with ATOM and xml namespaces that I just don't understand yet. I have gotten it to work by removing all attributes from the feed tag, but that's a hack and I would like to do it properl...

Recommended Python RSS/Atom feed generator?

Can you recommend a feed generator library for Python? I could build the XML myself, but I'm looking for a recommended library that is built from the ground up around the RSS (or Atom) spec. ...

How To Discover RSS Feeds for a given URL

I get a URL from a user. I need to know: a) is the URL a valid RSS feed? b) if not is there a valid feed associated with that URL using PHP/Javascript or something similar (Ex. http://techcrunch.com fails a), but b) would return their RSS feed) Edit: See my answer below ...

What is the best .Net library to handle feeds (Atom+RSS)

We use RSS.Net (old and not maintained, but there's a more recent fork) to parse RSS feeds. We wrote a similar library to parse Atom feeds and managed to extract a common interface from both, this way we don't really care what sort of feed it is. Is there something like that already "out there"? ...

adding html to my RSS/Atom feed in Rails

The default rails XML builder escapes all html so something like: atom_feed do |feed| @stories.each do |story| feed.entry story do |entry| entry.title story.title entry.content "<b>foo</b>" end end end will produce the text: <b>foo</b> instead of: foo Is there any way to instruct the XML builder ...

RSS or ATOM to syndicate content?

Which is best? I always produce ATOM feeds, as they seem more comprehensive, but I'm not sure which is technically better. ...

How do you generate a good ID in ATOM documents?

Apparently using the URL is no good - why is this the case, and how do you generate a good one? ...

Access to old, no longer available, Feed entries.

I am working on a project that requires reliable access to historic feed entries not necessarily available in the current feed of the website. I have found several ways to access such data, but none of them give me all the characteristics I need. Look at this as a brainstorm. I will tell you how much I have found and you can contribute ...

What is the best PHP lib/class to generate RSS/Atom

Hello, I have to produce RSS/Atom feed in various applications, and I want to know a good lib/class wich is able to produce both, and which already handle all common problems. For example the one I used for year does not put the right format for date, so my feed is not well handled by several aggregators. Thanks, Cédric Update : W...

Parsing Atom & RSS in Ruby/Rails?

I'm looking for something that will let me parse Atom and RSS in Ruby and Rails. I've looked at the standard RSS library, but is there one library that will auto-detect whatever type of feed it is and parse it for me? ...

Source for Flash based RSS1/RSS2/ATOM/RDF reader?

Does anyone know where to find a good, opensource RSS reader in Flash? I see lots that implement RSS or ATOM or RSS2, but none that do all of the different RSS style formats out there. I'd prefer to keep this in Flash, as I'm trying to keep this so it'll run with minimal server requirements... Requirements: - Parses RSS1/RSS2/ATOM/RDF, ...

Is there a Delphi implementation of Google Data APIs?

Google offers various libraries for interfacing with the Google Data APIs. Currently these do not include Delphi (Win32) support. Has anyone done any work on a Delphi interface to Google Data, or the underlying Atom/AtomPub protocols? ...

Apache Abdera Client - Posting/Putting

Looking for help using the Apache Abdera Atom Client. I am trying to post and put files to a feed but I am getting a 400 error saying that the content type must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data ...

Best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds with PHP

I'm currently using Magpie RSS but it sometimes falls over when the RSS or Atom feed isn't well formed. Are there any other options for parsing RSS and Atom feeds with PHP? ...

Exposing data in an atom feed

How do I add extra data into an atom feed that does not map into the standard entry nodes (title, link, id, updated, summary)? Is it possible to add my own custom xml here and still be compliant with the spec? ...

PHP Convert HTML Formatted Date

Published Date returned from Twitter Search API Atom Feed as 2008-11-03T21:30:06Z which needs to be converted to "X seconds/minutes/hours/days ago" for showing how long ago twitter messages were posted. Think this can be done with php date() function using DATE_ATOM value? ...

Is there a service that can take a feed and produce a daily digest from it?

I run a feed aggregator (http://planetdb2.com/) and I need to aggregate both prolific (many posts a day) and less prolific (one post a day at most) feeds. Creating a daily digest -- one post summary of the day's posts -- seems like the best solution. There's a way to create a daily digest just for Twitter feeds via Yahoo Pipes, but it...