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PubSubHubbub for a blog in Ruby (Merb)

I am writing my own blog (every one should, it's good experience). I have implemented Atom and RSS feeds, and they are used by a number of readers. Most of those readers are using Google Reader, who at the moment polls my site regularly for updates. I would like to setup a publish Subscribe (PubSubHubbub) option as documented here, an...

ruby noob: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss/rss.rb:922:in `have_required_elements?': undefined method

Sorry, this might be a basic/stupid/noob question - I am just trying to tweak an existing Ruby script - it runs on my Mac ok, but failing to run on Ubuntu 9.04. The error is this: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rss/rss.rb:922:in `have_required_elements?': undefined method `have_required_elements?' for "App Store Reviews for ":String (NoMethodError)...

Is there a way to filter the RSS view of a SharePoint list?

I'm trying to get only certain items from a SharePoint list. The RSS feed is giving me everything, even if I have the list filtered of looking at a specific view. ...

Deserializing an RSS feed in .NET

Is it practical / possible to use serialization to read data from an RSS feed? I basically want to pull information from my Netflix queue (provided from an RSS feed), and I'm trying to decide if serialization is feasible / possible, or if I should just use something like XMLReader. Also, what would be the best way to download the feed fr...

How can I mark an RSS item "expired"?

I'm working on a (web page / RSS feed / form in a winapp) to show current system status and recent updates. I'd like to know when an open issue is resolved, so that it can be drawn with strike through. This will let the users know the issue is resolved, but keep it on the list. I know it would be easier to remove it, but I want the ...

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...

Creating RSS Mashup Application

I am trying to create rss mashup application with php like this one.Application work like this user give one or more rss feeds to merge into one rss feed.Then my web application perform and output one rss feed for user given feeds(no user sign up will needed for site).I will do this application but i dont know where to start is database ...

Creating database schema for parsed feed

Additional questions regarding SilentGhost's initial answer to a problem I'm having parsing Twitter RSS feeds. See also partial code below. First, could I insert tags[0], tags[1], etc., into the database, or is there a different/better way to do it? Second, almost all of the entries have a url, but a few don't; likewise, many entries ...

XSL, comparing dates to exclude any past events

I have an RSS of an events feed. I would like to hide previous events. Assuming XML data subset of <Navigation Name="ItemList" Type="Children"> <Page ID="x32444" URL="..." Title="Class..." EventStartDate="20090831T23:00:00" EventEndDate="20090904T23:00:00" EventStartTime="20090830T15:30:00" EventEndTime="20090830T18:30:00" Changed=...

How can I find out how many people is subscribed to an RSS feed i'm serving?

We have a site that is serving some RSS feeds, and we'd like to know how many people is subscribed to each one, without using a system like FeedBurner to serve them. The original approach to figuring this out was basically logging requests, and then getting the number of unique IP's that had requested each feed. However, if I get 1 mill...

Java Program Structure Advice

Hi, I am building and sort of RSS reader in java as my first object-oriented program and would love some OO design tips. I have a Reader class with a list of Feed objects for RSS feeds, and each Feed downloads news items into Article objects in an Articles list. What I want to do is find a way to relate articles from multiple sources....

Preventing RSS feed scraping?

On a Wordpress site, I have both a normal blog that I want Google to detect and an RSS feed for outgoing links to other sites. I don't need/want bots to get at this other RSS feed nor do I want people to be able to get the link for their own use. I've disabled RSS for the main blog successfully but am not sure how to encrypt/protect/hid...

What are good resources if I want to develop RSS feed readers for N97 and E71?

What are good resources if I want to develop RSS feed readers for N97, E71 and other Symbian phones? ...

Wordpress: How to include a custom field in an array (SmplePie)

Hi! Wordpress 2.8.4, Simple Pie Plugin 2.2.1 I'm having this: <?php echo SimplePieWP(array( 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?q=fifa10%20trailer&amp;client=ytapi-youtube-search&amp;alt=rss&amp;v=2' ),array('items' => '1')); ?> Instead of "fifa10" I'd like to have the value of a custom field with the key "name-of-game" in t...

Which is the best way to parsing RSS/Atom feeds with Rails

I'm developing feed reader application in Rails. And i'm new to feed. I've a some questions. Which is the best way to parsing thousand of RSS/Atom feeds with Rails or JavaScript /jQuery/ ? Is there any way to get just feed title / not load whole feed / ? Is there any way to get feed with limit ? Thanks in advance! How it works: htt...

creating rss feed from a datasource using asp.net rss toolkit

Did anyone create an rss feed using the following toolkit http://www.codeplex.com/ASPNETRSSToolkit I have a datasource that i can assign, which should give me an rss link. for e.g. i am trying to create an rss feed for this url http://webclip.in ...

Transfer website to a wordpress blog retaining the older links and RSS feeds

Hello, I have around 40 pages on my website. I also have a Wordpress blog. I would like to shift my website to this blog. When I transfer the website to the blog, I want to transfer its pages to the blog as pages and not blog posts. Would that be possible. The existing pages on the website have the URLs like; www.xyz.com/article1.ht...

How to get the category (Label) of a post from RSS with SimplePie

Hi, Is there any member function available in SimplePie to get the Category (Labels) of a post ? ...

Appropriate use of a ServletContextListener in Java / Apache Tomcat web application

Hello Can anyone tell me if it is appropriate to use a ServletContextListener for a particular requirement? What I have is a web application which runs a particular job every hour to poll a number of RSS feeds and at any time a user can define a new RSS feed for polling. What I want to avoid is a user adding a feed(s) during a curre...