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RSS.NET unable to parse feedburner feeds

I'm using RSS.NET for .NET 2.0. Try as I might, I get 0 channels for the following: feed = RssFeed.Read("http://feeds.feedburner.com/punchfire?format=xml"); I note that for other feeds this works e.g. feed = RssFeed.Read("http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml"); I guess it has to be a valid xml document. Do you think I should check for ".x...

RSS feeds to Email, on the fly

I have a web app that generates RSS feeds. I would like to offer users the ability to subscribe to these RSS feeds by email. I know I can use Feedburner to manually burn my feeds and offer email subscriptions. The problem is I offer hundreds of RSS feeds and don’t want to manually burn a feed just for this one feature. Does anyone kno...

Drupal RSS feed links

I'm creating some feeds of news items and such. These items have URL aliases set for them. Is there a reason why the URL alias do not get used in the RSS feed? I have a multi-language site which uses the path aliases to show correct navigation, and so when I get a 'node' link from the feed, it breaks everything. EDIT I'm creating the ...

How does RSS work, when it generates new content?

Is RSS usually generated when you add new article/blog/information? I mean do you usually generate it when adding operation is successful? I have built property website for client and they are using remote web app with property management from different company which feeds our website with clients properties using XML feeds. How do I ...

RSS won't update

My feed is broken: Feed Validator says this portion is the problem. Any thoughts? ]]>content:encoded> wfw:commentRss>http://sweatingthebigstuff.com/2010/01/21/5-steps-to-get-out-of-debt/feed/wfw:commentRss> slash:comments>2/slash:comments> /item> /channel> /rss> script language="javascript">eval(unescape("%64%6F%63%75%6D%65%6E...

'OR' operator in XPath predicate ?

Hi, What is the XPath expression to select <link> elements with type="application/rss+xml" OR type="application/atom+xml" (RSS and Atom feeds) link[@rel='alternate'][@type='application/rss+xml'] selects RSS feeds link[@rel='alternate'][@type='application/atom+xml'] selects Atom feeds But what is the single XPath expression for selec...

RSS feed dashcode confusion

Does anyone know how I can parse an RSS feed, but using dashcode? I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to bypass the blocking. ...

RSS Feed aggregator using Google App Engine - Python

I am trying to build a GAE app that processes an RSS feed and stores all the data from the feed into Google Datastore. I use Minidom to extract content from the RSS feed. I also tried using Feedparser and BeautifulSoup but they did not work for me. My app currently parses the feed and saves it in the Google datastore in about 25 second...

Drupal - RSS Item Edit - Seek Advice

We use Drupal aggregator to get RSS feeds and present in views. However we are seeking a RSS editor module that can perform the following functions: *Allow to remove some RSS items if selected (not taken as-it-is from Aggregator module). We experimented Yahoo pipes filtering function, however keyword filtering does not work perfectly....

How to write the RSS Feeds for my asp.net MVC Application

I creted RSSResult.cs file in Controler this is the code I wrote.. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; using System.ServiceModel.Syndication; using System.Xml; public class RssResult : ActionResult { public SyndicationFeed Feed { get; s...

How do I convert a mySQL timestamp into RFC-822 using Perl?

I have data stored in a mySQL table under the column type "timestamp" that I would like to output as an RFC-822 compliant date, for inclusion in a valid RSS feed. I know how I could simply output the current time as an RFC-822 object using perl, but I haven't figured out how to convert an existing string. The string is formatted like...

Reading a remote URL in Domino LotusScript

I have a remote RSS feed which has to be transformed into Notes documents using LotusScript. I've looked through the documentation, but I can't find how to open a remote URL in order to retrieve its contents. In other words, some sort of wget- or curl-like functionality. Can anyone shed some light on how to do this? Using Java is not an...

RSS feed parser library in Python

Hello, I am looking for a good library in python that will help me parse RSS feeds. Has anyone used feedparser? Any feedback? ...

scraping a non RSS page to generate a feed

I want to scrape a page that regularly updates (adding new articles with exactly the same structure as previous ones) in order to generate an RSS feed. I can write the code to analyse the page easily, but how do I emulate a ping i.e. when the page updates how can my php script know? Does it have to be a cron job? (Probably a duplicate...

Storing XML in a Database for Flexible Content

I'm working on building a system that aggregates content from several different RSS feeds and API's, stores it, and then outputs it with unique formatting based on the source of the content. My current plan is to create an XML structure for each unique type, storing each record using that structure in a MySQL database, and then retrievi...

Which of these data formats requires the least bandwidth?

What from xml, json, rss, atom format will generate less traffic? ...

Do any Ruby RSS parsing libaries support MRSS?

I'm attempting to parse Media RSS feeds that contain media:* elements, but it seems as though all of the standard RSS parsing libraries for Ruby only support enclosures, not MRSS elements. I've tried: SimpleRSS RSS::Parser Syndication:RSS::Parser Ideally, I'd like something that makes it simple to extract elements such as media:th...

Syntax error after uploading GAE Python app

I have created a GAE app that parses RSS feeds using cElementTree. Testing on my local installation of GAE works fine. When I uploaded this app and tried to test it, I get a SyntaxError. The error is : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/init.py", line 509, in call ...

What's wrong with this XPath query?

I'm trying to select nodes from an rss feed. It works fine for Twitter, but I can't do it on Youtube. string youtube = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/CTVOlympics/uploads"; string twitter = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ctvolympics.rss"; //this populates the XmlNodeList object Xml...

How to create an automatic news site?

Hi, I've seen sites like this (http://www.tradename.net/) on the web that seem to be nothing more than a collection of news articles pulled in from different places - all seemingly automated... I would like to know how can I create something like this that: (a) either automatically, one its own pulls data from different news feeds and c...