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How do I cut the size of my RSS feed to display in UITableView?

I have an iPhone application that reads RSS feeds from a YouTube channel. However, when that view controller loads, it takes forever to load as its downloading a lot of data. How do I make the RSS feed load only several items at a time instead of all at one go? Thanks. ...

Can I have both full text RSS and an excerpt RSS in Wordpress?

I like giving my users the full text RSS feed, but I also have a few sites which pull the RSS feed and link to us from it. They want me to provide the excerpt/blurbs for the articles rather than the full text. Can anyone give me some direction on how to make this happen? ...

Slow loading of RSS feeds into UITableView

I have a YouTube RSS feed set up to show YouTube videos in a tableview. When I load the controller though, it takes a long time to load the feed, so it appears for awhile that the app has frozen. How can I load the view controller first, then show a loading/spinner while my app downloads the feed? ...

Where I can find the official XSD schema for RSS 2.0

I am looking for the XSD schema of RSS. Via Wikipedia I have found several pages on the specifications of RSS 2.0 but none offers an XSD schema. I found several correct xsd files around on the web but all these schemas are created by individual developers. I'm surprised not to find a site official RSS 2.0 specification and provides a for...

Can gitweb RSS feed show tags as well?

Hi, I use the gitweb RSS feed a lot for my remote repositories but it only shows me commits. Is there a way to get creation of tag objects into the feed as well? (I'm currently using 1.6.3.3 for the remote repositories.) Cheers. ...

Limit string chars - PHP

I am building an RSS script with mysql, and i dont want an extra field in the database... i want to shrink down the body of the article with a "... Read More" but im not sure how i can limit the number of chars echoed out onto the page? Of course not this syntax, but something along the lines of: echo(limit($row['newsBody'], 1000)); ...

Google Chrome rendering XML as text for RSS feed

Hi all. I have this script to generate an XML file for an RSS feed. Works great in every browser except Chrome. Chrome just renders the XML as text. Something to do with header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1"); possibly? This is the code I'm using: <?php $linkUp = "http://localhost/sites/myBlog/"; header("...

consuming password protected feeds with RSS Toolkit

I've been using the asp.net rss toolkit to consume rss feeds. it works great except for password protected feeds. Does anyone know how to supply credentials to the toolkit when it's making a request? thanks ...

Automatically transfer Blog post (rss) in Facebook, Twitter...

Hi Any APIs or application that could be used to pull a RSS feed and put it on a configured Facebook, Twitter, ... account ? Kind of a Add This but in something like a Windows Service Thanks ! Patrick ...

Checking for Updates on an RSS Feed without downloading the entire XML File

I want to check for updates on a RSS feed. Is there any way to do it without downloading the complete XML? (want to minimize data transfer...) Thanks ...

feedparser and Google News

I'm trying to download a corpus of news (to try to do some natural language processing) from Google News using the universal feedparser with python. I really know nothing of XML, I'm just using an example of how to use the feedparser. The problem is that I can't find in the dict I get from the RSS feed the content of the news just the ti...

FLV video not playing in Cooliris embed wall

I have a PHP file that generates a Media RSS file for the embedded wall. It reads images and video from our Amazon S3 bucket and signs the URLs before creating the RSS feed. When the wall loads, images display perfectly. Where there should be video there is only an empty black square, when the video is clicked - still only an empty squa...

Perils of relying on embedded HTML in RSS

Can anyone advise me as to any potential issues with embedding our RSS feed content as HTML using: <content:encoded><![CDATA[ *insert HTML table layout w/ inline styles* ]]></content:encoded> I'm rather opposed to this practice, as I feel it fundamentally breaks the point of using an RSS feed over a webpage, but have not found any se...

Feedparser - retrieve old messages from Google Reader

I'm using the feedparser library in python to retrieve news from a local newspaper (my intent is to do Natural Language Processing over this corpus) and would like to be able to retrieve many past entries from the RSS feed. I'm not very acquainted with the technical issues of RSS, but I think this should be possible (I can see that, e.g...

Android: Moving window of items in a ListView?

I am trying to update the ListView with periodic updates taken from an HTTP response. Now, I am thinking that because this is very specific to my application, I can get away by using a background thread and then updating the ListView using the magic UI thread. The last time I tried this, I had to remove the entire adapter of the ListView...

Randomize external RSS feed order in PHP

I'm using a third-party AJAX slideshow for a website that takes an RSS feed as its picture source. I would like to randomize the order of the pictures, but that's not a feature of the slideshow (or the RSS feed I'm pulling from). Surely it shouldn't be difficult to write a short function in PHP that takes an external RSS feed, randomiz...

Java RSS Notification Manager

Does anyone know of a java library or JSP Web Application that can do the following... Subscribe to an RSS feeds Manage User Email Subscriptions to certain events in the feed. (add/remove) Notify the users as the feed come in through the feed Example: User A wants to be notified on all news related to "technology" from the Google New...

Can you subscribe to a facebook page via rss?

I have created a page and I would like users to be able to subscribe using rss (similarly as twitter). The only possibility I see is a subscription to notes, not the wall. Any ides how this can be done? ...

Circular compositional pattern with RSS Feed and FeedItem classes

I'm designing a small system to parse RSS feeds, and I have two classes: Feed and FeedItem. public class Feed { public string Title{ get; set; } public string Link{ get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } public bool IsTwitterFeed { get; set; } public List<FeedItem> Items { get; set; } } public class Fee...

Questions about creating an RSS reader

I am really green to this and came across this site by googling the subject. I am looking to create my own rss reader. I am wondering what language would be best to create a custom rss reader in the same lines as Google reader? I wonder what language do they use. Any and all help or direction pointing or suggestions would be greatly appr...