I have a calendar feed (.ics) available from my application, but it's quite large since it includes over 4,000 events. Is there a standard or best practice when it comes to specifying how many events get downloaded or how far back or forward the calendar should go? My main question though, is how to configure or set an update limit on ...
I need to create an RSS feed from a sqlite3 database containing blog posts. The site that will use the feed is on Google App Engine but is a static site currently. To create an RSS feed would it be easier to use a server-side script in Python or to use a Windows software tool (e.g. FeedForAll) to produce the news feed, say, once a week? ...
I'm looking into writing a proxy aggregator for feeds, where a handful of users specify a feed URL and some set of conditions, and the system outputs a continually-updated RSS/Atom feed of entries that match those conditions. Are there best practices for feed aggregators? (Or filtering feed proxies?) For example: Are there certain fe...
I am using ROME library for parsing feeds. I want to know how can I identify a link as an XML link or a normal link. Is there a support for this in ROME. ...
Using the new syndication API, is there any smooth ways to read RSS 1.0 feeds? found http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/comments/116679.aspx with an explination of how to read atom 0.3. Do we realy need to create our own xslt to transform the feed from RSS 1.0 to RSS 2.0? ...
I have a project that will need to be able to export data for feed readers. Is there a non-technical reason I should pick RSS over Atom, Atom over RSS, one of the flavors of RSS over another or anything else? In particular, I'm looking for things like low or high adoption, difficulties/incompatibilities or particular ease with popular ...
I share a lot of feeds on my google reader, i want some code using asp.net to read all these feeds and put in a page, may be with paging because feeds are too much. Any one know how to do so?, or if there is a tool for that ...
Is there an API (official or unofficial) that for a given blog post, lets me see how many people have shared it/starred it on Google Reader? I subscribe to a particular blog which is a bit too prolific for my reading habits, so I'd like to produce a new feed which only includes the posts which have reached a certain crowd-sourced thresho...
My application needs to keep track of RSS/Atom feeds and save the new entries in a database. My question is, What is the most reliable method to determine whether an entry in a feed has already been crawled or not? I use Universal Feed Parser module to parse the feeds. My current implementation keeps record of the latest value of feed.en...
Using feedparser or some other Python library to download and parse RSS feeds; how can I reliably detect new items and modified items? So far I have seen new items in feeds with publication dates earlier than the latest item. Also I have seen feed readers displaying the same item published with slightly different content as seperate ite...
I'm thinking it would be convenient to alert interested parties to the completion of the build process via an Atom or RSS feed. I'm guessing someone somewhere has taken the time to do this, but...maybe your google-fu is better than mine, but this turns out to be a hard thing to search for. ...
I'd like to be able to collect RSS feeds online as an alternative to collecting them on a desktop machine using a regularly running process. Ideally, it would either collect all feeds and simply email them to a single address as soon as it finds a new one (or even without checking for new feeds) or aggregates all the smaller feeds and s...
Within your iPhone app environment be able to connect to Facebook. Then post a comment & a chosen photo to your Facebook newsfeed: [ Comment: "Hey guys check out my photo! ] [Photo: Image appended to comment ] 3a. User clicks 'post on wall'> On the user's Facebook news feed, this will appear. [ "Hey guys check out my photo!" ] + [ ph...
I'm using the Python version of the YouTube API to get a YouTubeVideoFeed object using the following URL: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME/uploads Note: I've replaced USERNAME with the account I need to follow. So far getting the feed, iterating the entries, getting player urls, titles and thumbnails has all been ...
What are common methods / official standards for surfacing event or calendar data? My use case is that I want to aggregate event information from several different websites into a single calendar or event listing (this is on an intranet, we have control over all websites). I want to ask the websites to present their data in a certain...
The documentation lists the tags that are allowed/removed by default: http://www.feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html But it doesn't say anything about how you can specify which additional tags you want removed. Is there a way to do this using Universal Feed Parser or do you have to do further processing using your own regex and...
SimplePie lets you merge feeds together: http://simplepie.org/wiki/tutorial/sort_multiple_feeds_by_time_and_date Is there anything like this in the Python world? The Universal Feed Parser documentation doesn't say anything about merging multiple feeds together. ...
I need to have a complete list of feeds provided by all of sites or list of sites which have rss feeds on their site. Searched on google a lot, but couldn't find out how to get that list. ...
The default URL gives me only the 10 newest podcasts. How can I get a lengthier list? Or list all of the podcasts? ...
Hi, I am trying to post something on a facebook users feed and then afterwards redirect the user to another page, but it seems like the page just keeps reloading without any promt for sending user feed. FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(1111111, null, null, null, null, null, redirectTo(), null, null); function redirectTo() { window.top.lo...