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Facebook Create a One Line Story template with images

Hi, Is it possible to add a small image (around 16x16px) to a One Line Story template in front of the username? I am using the facebook tool to create the feed, and can't figure out how I can get a small image in front of the one line story. It works fine with the code below for larger stories, but not the one line stories? {"images":[{...

Dynamic RSS Feed in c#

What would be a good way to create a dynamic RSS Feed? Currently, I have coded a function that is able to create a static file, but I am just curious what the best method of running this at certain times/days would be? For example, I create an RSS feed that lists all the items that occur today, and I would like it to populate at 12:01 ...

Service for feed converting (version problem).

Hello there, I have made an application (for my self) for feeds reading, using SyndicationFeed, and the problem is that it supports just Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0. I have bunch of feeds which are RSS 0.92 version and so... So my question is: Is there any service which I can use for converting RSS 0.92 to RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0. Someone told...

Is it possible to use authentication in RSS feeds using php?

I'm trying to develop a feed for an intranet document management system, so that staff can be notified of new documents. I have actually completed coding it, but there is no way to authenticate the user. Also I'm not successful in adding the feed to news readers, but works with firefox Live Bookmark. Any Ideas Update: Since I couldn'...

Facebook style "whats new feeds" in ASP.net MVC sanity check

I would like to create a Facebook style “whats new” view for my asp.net mvc application. This might generate content such as... * Ciaran sent a message to The Rise and Fall of the Rockets * Rick is going to Songs for the bathtub on Thursday, 28 June 2009 * Col became a fan of The Rise and Fall of the Rockets * Leeroy posted Busk To Bea...

Does anyone already used Mesh4x ?

In order to provide heterogeneous synchronization between devices, have you ever used Mesh4x ? It uses FeedSync to synchronize data. http://code.google.com/p/mesh4x/ ...

Feed access control

Is there a sensible setup for private feeds (rss or atom) with some sort of security and authentication? The application in question creates "private news" with sensible information for each user and the request is to present these news via feeds. Only the user may gain access and read his news and should be able to subscribe to then. ...

what would be a good algorithm to keep count of unread items In an online feed aggregator implementation?

Assume the database has tables for Users, Feeds, Items, and an ability to know which Items the user has already seen. I am looking for a design paradigm that can be used on the server to compute in a short amount of time [feed id, num_unread] for each feed that the user has subscribed to. Assume plenty of users and that the feeds are g...

What good Feed API (Javascript or exposed via web services) are there?

I've just starting out developing using Feeds, and have so far used Google JavaScript Feed API to get RSS feeds into my web application. I was wondering what other types of feed api are available for free consumption. Also if you have any great feeds you would recommend (available through RSS or otherwise - including custom feeds), p...

RSS Feed created using Zend_Feed - firefox prompts to download not display as RSS

I've created an RSS feed using Zend_Feed. It seems to have worked in that the resulting XML looks good. My problem is that Firefox won't recognise it as an RSS feed and instead prompts me to download the raw XML. Trying it in IE gives the error "this feed contains code errors" with the following extra info: Invalid xml declaration. ...

Single RSS feed for multiple resources

My rails app has couple of content generating resources like Article, Blog Posts, etc.. I can generate the RSS for each individual resource but I'm not getting how to synchronize into one RSS feed for these multiple feeds. Currently I've setup the Articles feed via FeedBurner and even FeedBurner doesn't have this facility to merge diff...

Problem getting date with Universal Feed Parser

It looks like http://portland.beerandblog.com/feed/atom/ is messed up (as are the 0.92 and 2.0 RSS feeds). Universal Feed Parser (latest version from http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py?spec=svn295&amp;r=295 ) doesn't see any dates. <title>Beer and Blog Portland</title> <atom:link ...

Javascript XML parsing

Hi there, What is the best JavaScript library to parse XML/RSS/Atom feeds? Is there something like Python Feed parser but then for JavaScript ? thanks, Pero ...

Aggregating feeds in Rails application

I am thinking of writing a daemon to loop through feeds and then add them into the database as ActiveRecord objects. Firstly, one problem I am facing is that I cannot reliably retrieve the author/user of a story using the feed-normalizer gem. It appears that some times, it does not recognize the tag (I don't know if anyone else has fac...

Get remote text file, process, and update database - approach and scripting language to use?

I've been having to do some basic feed processing. So, get a file via ftp, process it (i.e. get the fields I care about), and then update the local database. And similarly the other direction: get data from db, create file, and upload by ftp. The scripts will be called by cron. I think the idea would be for each type of feed, define the...

Can I stop the Atom10FeedFormattor from outputting type="text" on Title and Summary tags?

I read in the Atom 1.0 spec that for text constructs the type attribute is optional and if left out the processor must behave as if the value was "text". I'm dealing with a processor (Googlebase, cough..) that doesn't want to see the attribute at all in the feed I'm submitting. Since I'm using the fancy new SyndicationFeed from System....

Rails: Best practice creating RSS feeds - MIME detection vs. FeedsController

Hi, I need several RSS feeds in my app. They are in a way similar to existing actions but with less options (no will_paginate, no sorting, only the most recent 20 results). So for example I have one action which shows all items tagged "amazing" and I also need one feed which shows the latest items tagged "amazing". My question: Is it b...

django syndication: how to send a queryset containing all feeds to a template

I'd like to display all available feeds on one page, but I don't want to hard code each feed. Something like sending in a queryset of feeds would be perfect, like: {% for feed in feeds %} {{ feed.link }} {{ feed.name }} {{ feed.description }} {% endfor %} From what I understand, Feeds in the Django Syndication Framework are created as ...

How do Aweber and FeedBlitz report subscriber numbers to Feedburner?

I've looked all over for some documentation on this, but haven't found it. Some posts reference a user-agent string: http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner-services/browse_thread/thread/7aee14cf6a2432e7/49464335d2228e25?lnk=gst&amp;q=aweber#49464335d2228e25 I had assumed there would be an API or something. More generally, how does...

using task queues to schedule the fetching/parsing of a number of feeds in appengine python

Say I had over 10,000 feeds that I wanted to periodically fetch/parse. If the period were say 1h that would be 24x10000 = 240,000 fetches. The current 10k limit of the labs taskqueue api would preclude one from setting up one task per fetch. How then would one do this? Update: re: fetching nurls per task: given the 30second timeout pe...