feeds

make website page get news articles from feeds

Hi, I would like to start publishing some news articles from time to time. An option would be to create a new web page for every article but this sounds like it can be done easier. For instance I noticed clear channel uses some kind of feed, like: http://www.z100.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104650&article=701140...

Is this way the best solution to read and save images from Rss Feeds?

Hi, I've built a "RSS Feed Reader" module to my application. This module read and store all feeds in my database for future use. I want to know if there is a better and faster way to do that than the code described bellow. This code is executed every 10 minutes in a cron job. // In my FeedEntries Model public function fetchNewEntries() ...

Is there a Feedburner replacement out there?

I like that Feedburner can do some basic analytics and tracking. But I have also had (in the past) problems with Feedburner. Is there a self-hosted solution out there that is roughly equivalent? ...

use of Rss feeds

Hi every 1 I was wondering if there's any legal issues with using somebody elses rss feed in your app. Like a bbc rss feed? ...

How to use YQL to merge 2 RSS feeds sorted by pubDate?

Seeing that YQL is being promoted as a good way to do things, I was curious as to how to use YQL to fetch and merge 2 different feeds into one (sorted by pubDate). It's pretty trivial to fetch 2 feeds but it turns out that the feeds are just concatenated together and not merged. Here's the sample code. select channel.title,channel.li...

How to play audio podcast file from libsyn rss feed? (drupal)

Got an established libsyn rss feed, got a new drupal website for the podcast. Libsyn provides a player but not correct aesthetic. I can upload and play mp3 files with audio module and mp3player module, and like the mp3 player's output, a simple flash player, but I don't want to be manually moving the podcast audio files (mp3) over every ...

Showing full body from an RSS feed using Feeds module in Drupal 6.x

Alright, so this is my problem: I'm using the Feeds module to create nodes from an RSS feed. My problem is that feeds doesn't allow you to select 'body' in 'sources' (under Create nodes -> mappings in the left-side menu). I googled this quite a bit but cant find any solution to this problem. Any help would be very much appreciated. ...

Aggregating and Displaying Multiple Feeds

I want to pull feeds for multiple online services (e.g. Tumblr, Google Reader, Delicious) and aggregate them into a single feed to display on my site. I know of services like YQL or Yahoo! Pipes which will combine feeds, but sometimes those services are too slow. I was wondering what the best method would be if I wanted to run this on my...

How To Discover RSS Feeds for a given site.

The quest is, given a site url (say http://stackoverflow.com/ ) to return the list of all the feeds available on the site. Methods acceptable: a) use a 3rd party service (google?, yahoo?, ...) programmatically b) using a crawler/spider (and some tips on how to configure the spider to return the rss/xml feeds only) c) programmatically u...

Add my own RSS reader app on a http://feeds2.feedburner.com/exampleofname "subscribe feed using" list

I'm doing a RSS reader for a University Project. The feed urls have to be added by hand tipically with the copy/paste method, and I don't like this option because is poor for the users. My question is: can I do like in webpage http://feeds2.feedburner.com/microsiervos a list of web applications (Google Reader, Netvibes, etc.) making apea...

Django DRY Feeds

I'm using the Django Feeds Framework and it's really nice, very intuitive and easy to use. But, I think there is a problem when creating links to feeds in HTML. For example: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ feed_title }}" href="{{ url_of_feed }}" /> Link's HREF attribute can be easily found out, just use rev...

How to convert an xml feed to html

Hi, I have a xml feed which needs to be converted to HTML. How can it be done? If somebody has any references on how to do it pls let me know. i need to show the feed in a wordpress site. Thanks Prady ...

Is it possible to have to call the Google AJAX Feed API twice on the same page?

I was thinking of using a slider panel to display two different feed-sections. For example pulling in Tech in one div, and Sports in another.. Thanks! ...

RSS Subsriber count without using feedburner

Currently, I have a blog which is running on wordpress. I want to know how many users subscribe my feeds. I know that if i used feedburner, I can get the counter from there. But I was really wondering if there's anyway that we can track the subscriber easily. Please kindly share the code or ideas. Thanks. ...

Wordpress - How to limit characters to show at Feeds ?

Hello, In wordpress, there is settings for the feed to show Summary or Full. I want to show only content summary at Feeds. But the default summary is still too long for me. And there's another way to add excerpt at each of the post. For that option, I can't use it either because I am running multiple author blog and most of the people d...

Django Feeds/Syndication - The functions item_title and item_description do not effect whats displayed?

Ive defined a a class that inherits from django.contrib.syndication.feeds.Feed class Rss(Feed): ... def item_title(self, item): return "Hello" def item_description(self, item): return "Test" The issue is whats returned from the methods item_title and item_description is not what is used in the feed, even when no...

How do I browse Wordpress Comment Feed by page?

Can I browse a blog's comments feed further than the first page (usually 10 comments) I know there's a comments feed: /comments/feed and comments feed for a specific post: /feed?p=23 and posts feed which can be paginated: /feed?paged=2 and the ability to pageinate comments on a post using comment-page-2 or cpage=2 on a post (not in f...

Event feed implementation - will it scale?

Situation: I am currently designing a feed system for a social website whereby each user has a feed of their friends' activities. I have two possible methods how to generate the feeds and I would like to ask which is best in terms of ability to scale. Events from all users are collected in one central database table, event_log. Use...

Social Graphing application - help/collaboration needed

Hello my fellow Web Developers. It seems I have been charged with the tall task at my new job of creating an application that would track (on a kind of "super-aggregate basis") a combined aggregate of SEARCH STRINGS (assumedly via Google), SOCIAL MEDIA MENTIONS (Twitter mentions, Facebook mentions, blog mentions,etc), and NEWS POSTINGS (...

Naive question about implementing RSS

I have a naive question about RSS feeds. I have a series of timed events which appear on my site and that I make available as an RSS feed for other applications to import. Who is typically responsible for truncating this feed? Over the next year, I can see my feed having thousands of items. Should the URL mysite.com/rss always return a...