feeds

Feed Reader: Should It Always Be Client Side?

Should a browser based Feed Reader always use something on the client side, like Javascript? UPDATE: I mean, specifically, for the Parsing of RSS. If you can offload it to the browser, it seems almost irresponsible to make your server do the work. Still, there are plenty of advantages in my particular situation to doing it server side....

Create XML document using C# with SQL Server as datasource

I need to create an xml feed from my SQL Server database I have seen it done in many different ways like: http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article67.aspx However that seems to be just wrong.. What is the best an easiest way to go about this?? I have a XSD document to work from BTW. ...

Nested resource with Atom Feed Helper

I'm trying to use the Rails Atom Feed Helper to generate a feed for a nested resource. My view template (index.atom.builder) is: atom_feed(:schema_date => @favourites.first.created_at) do |feed| feed.title("Favourites for #{@user.login}") feed.updated(@favourites.first.created_at) @favourites.each do |favourite| feed.entry(...

Are there any security implications when embedding a username/password in an rss feed URL?

I noticed that when I added the FogBugz RSS Feed to my iGoogle page I had to embed my username and password in the feed URL. So are there any security risks associated with doing this? EDIT: Yes, my question should have specifically stated https and whether or not the query string portion of the url is encrypted. ...

how to filter asian language from a RSS feed?

I like to keep track of delicious.com/popular RSS feed. However, lately there are more and more Asian pages in the items. Since I do not understand any Asian languages, I would like to somehow filter them from the feed and save myself some time. I've been trying to cook up something using Yahoo pipes, but have not been able to get it wo...

Process feeds simultaneously

Hi, I am developing a vertical search engine. When a users searches for an item, our site loads numerous feeds from various markets. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to load, parse, and order the contents of the feed quickly and the user experiences some delay. I cannot save these feeds in the db nor can I cache them because the c...

Simple RSS parser for Android

Hello, I am trying to create my first Android application and I'm not all that experienced with Java development. In short, the application needs to do the following: On click, fetch a RSS feed online Parse it for data Show the data I've been browsing for guides, tutorials and documentation but the parsers I've found so far only deal...

CFFEED component/custom tag for ColdFusion MX 7?

I'm working on a client's site, and updating to ColdFusion 8 isn't an option. What I'm looking for is something similar to CF8's CFFEED functionality via a custom tag or component, and I'm not particularly keen on writing my own reader/parser if something already exists. I need to read in the RSS2 feed from a blog and display the title,...

Feed aggregator using hbase. How to design the schema?

I am working on a project involving monitoring a large number of rss/atom feeds. I want to use hbase for data storage and I have some problems designing the schema. For the first iteration I want to be able to generate an aggregated feed (last 100 posts from all feeds in reverse chronological order). Currently I am using two tables: F...

Fetching feeds by date

I want to be fetching feeds from a site on a daily basis. I only want to fetch the present day's feeds alone. Is there a way i can specify the date i intend to fetch as a parameter or i will just need to check the date of each fetched feed and stop fetching when the date is not the present day's date? Thanks in advance. ...

Using and formating an RSS feed.

Ok, here is my RSS feed link http://jacobnlsn.com/wordpress/?feed=rss. And I am looking to format it so it fits in the upper right hand spot of my header. My website is here http://jacobnlsn.com/. Its the black box in the upper right hand corner. How would I go about doing something like that? Thanks for your time! ...

Is there a good .NET version of DelphiFeeds.com?

Delphifeeds.com aggregates a large number of Delphi-related feeds that include both the official feeds from Embarcadero and independent bloggers from the community. I am looking for a similar thing for .NET and C# in particular. I am aware of course of the official Microsoft feeds, but I can't find a good repository of unaffiliated and t...

Who do you follow on Google Reader for .NET and Programming/Architecture related stuff?

I am very interested in not as much as what they write but what they read. Anybody following some good feeds in google reader? ...

Good Language for Spider and Indexer

I love Ruby and its framework, but I don't think that Ruby On Rails is the best choise to develop a Feed-parser and Indexer. Maybe Python or Java are better choises. What language do you suggest? ...

Detecting new new items in a RSS feed

What is the best way to detect when a feed has been updated? Say I have an application which polls the feed every 15 minutes. How do I find out if new content has been added or not? For RSS as well as Atom feeds. ...

PHP loading xml feeds quickly

Hi, I am building a comparison shopping site that takes in multiple xml feeds and displays the best deals. I use PHP Simplexml and then sort them using php when the page loads. I use a library like this: http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/parallel-web-scraping-in-php-curl-multi-functions-375/ to process the feeds in parallel...

'River of news' code sample in ruby?

Looking for a good example of a 'River of News' implementation done in Ruby. Rails, merb, sinatra or any other web framework would work. I have a couple ideas about how to implement it, but would love to see how people would do it. The implementation should load more items into the same page as soon the user reach the bottom of the doc...

How to add line breaks in RSS feeds?

I'm building my own custom RSS feed in PHP. I want the tag to contain line breaks to make the text more readable. However, I can't seem to figure out how to do it correctly. No matter what I try some RSS reader interprets it incorrectly. Is there some standard best way to add a line-break in and RSS 2.0 feed? I have tried "\n", which w...

Making a podcast RSS feed for iTunes

I'm building an RSS feed using PHP and want it to show up nicely in iTunes. How do I format the RSS feed so that iTunes likes it? Are there any special tags that I should use? What is the best way to submit it to the iTunes Directory (just once, or resubmit periodically to keep it "fresh")? What are some best practices, tips and trick...

How do you add another namespace to WCF SyndicationFeed?

In my feed generation code I have things like: XNamespace itunesNS = "http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"; feed.ElementExtensions.Add( new XElement(itunesNS + "subtitle", new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "itunes", itunesNS.NamespaceName), "sample subtitle").CreateReader()); which generates something like ...