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Why aren't there any dates in the Netflix.com NewWatchInstantlyRSS feed entries (when parsed with feedparser)?

The output from the following: import feedparser d = feedparser.parse('http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS') d.entries[177].keys() is: ['summary_detail', 'links', 'title', 'summary', 'guidislink', 'title_detail', 'link', 'id'] According to http://feedparser.org/docs/common-rss-elements.html, there should be a "date" element...

Execute a function just after the view loads, iphone

I am creating a tabbar application. One of the tabs is for an rss feed, which is a navigation application. but when i click the tab bat button, it is taking a while to load the view of that tab. It is because the application is waiting for the feed to be loaded from the server. Is there any way to load the view before the loading of that...

How to display image in RSS?

I am trying to write a very simple RSS channel which would display the current day's comic strip from sinfest.net, but I cannot force it to display anything but the linked title. Link to one of the code versions: <?php $page = file_get_contents('http://www.sinfest.net/index.php'); $title = ''; $description = ''; $link = ''; $date = date...

Exposing web based XML data via a SQL Server view

It seems that SQL Server has a fair amount of XML support. Mostly I've seen info regarding storing XML in SQL Server, querying XML data stored in SQL Server, and exposing data as XML. Is the following scenario an option: I'd like to expose xml data (it's an RSS view of workitems) from a web site via a SQL Server view. The motivation is...

Grab image url from description in rss feed using php and simplexml

I'm trying to set up a php page made up of images from 3 different RSS feeds, in 3 columns. The first feed is from a Wordpress blog, the second from an Etsy store, and the third from a Flickr feed. What I would like to do is grab the link to the images from the first 3 items in each feed. Relevant information: The Wordpress feed puts...

SimplePie not parsing flickr feed

I am trying to use SimplePie to pull a group pool flickr feed: $feed = new SimplePie(); $feed->set_feed_url('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=25938750@N00&amp;lang=en-us&amp;format=rss_200'); $feed->init(); $feed->handle_content_type(); Then I use typical SimplePie php calls to loop through the feed items. How...

JSON JQuery Flickr

I have this JQuery expression $.getJSON("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157607523855079&amp;nsid=9298216@N08&amp;lang=en-us&amp;format=json&amp;jsoncallback=?", function(data){ $.each(data.items, function(i,item) { $("<img/>").attr("src", item.media.m).appendTo("#images").wrap("<a href='" + item.link + "'...

Looking for a good C++ based RSS API

I tried http://code.google.com/p/feed-reader-lib but holy cow, talk about difficult to build. It has a nightmare of dependencies on Xerces and Xalan, both of which seem to be choking under the new VisualStudio 2010 C++ compiler. I've wasted hours trying to build this thing which is a shame. Does anyone have anything a little easier to hi...

Distinguish between HTML/XHTML and plain text in a RSS description-element

Hi, Long version: Those familiar to the standardization nightmare of the RSS-family, may know that RSS does not provide you with information if for example the "description" element contains just plain text or html or xhtml. I currently use the ROME-API to convert from various RSS versions to Atom 1.0. The Rome-API will happily parse...

How do I check if a RSS feed is working?

For example, if there is an RSS feed and for some reason it is down or cannot be grabbed I want to display a simple message saying "feed cannot be grabbed". Right now PHP spits out a really ugly warning message. note:I do not need to know whether it is valid. I just need to know if the feed actually works. I do not want to turn off war...

How can I get all feed entries from a page like Google Reader? (Since RSS is transitory)

I'm trying to build a script to retrieve all feed entries from a given page, but I can get only the most recents. How does Google Reader do it? ...

Can I integrate many sources into one RSS reader?

I'm looking to integrate a bunch of RSS/ATOM sources into a feed for our intranet. This is outside my usual realm of work so I've had very limited exposure to this. I'd like to integrate all the feeds into a single reader such that all the news items are in chronological release order. Is this doable? Do I need a special component? ...

Selfmade RSS reader - which control?

Hi, I develope an application in C#.Net 2.0, Windows. The App has a RSS Feed Reader for specific sites (to collect the biggest news). I found a very nice DLL for this in which I can very easy read the RSS. But my problem is the design, I tried a lot, how to display easy, quick and nice, but it sucks like hell, I tried nerly every contr...

RSS to iCal Script/service?

Can anyone how I might convert an RSS feed of events to an ical format so that I can import into Google Calendar? ...

creating updatable rss feed

Hie I have a page in my java/jsp based web application which shows list of new products.. I want to provide an rss feed for this. So, what is way to create a rss feed which other can use to subscribe? I could find some java based feed creators. But, the question is how the feed will be self updating based on new products added to the s...

Should I output cache my control that looks up twitter RSS onload?

I have a user control that is featured on several pages of a heavily hit site. Some of these pages include our blog sidebar, our forum sidebar, and smack right in the middle of our home page. That means this control is rendered a lot. The control it meant to read in a twitter RSS feed for a specific account and write out the last 2 tweet...

Securing the rss feed with username and password,for private viewing

How can i secure the Rss feed for private viewing? ...

Implementing Security for Rss Feeds.

A)I want to be able to support password protection of my RSS feeds through the following authentication methods: HTTP Basic Integrated Windows (NTLM/Kerberos) Digest 1)How can i do that in asp.net mvc B) Reading over the RSS 2.0 specification, I saw nothing related to security, so I assume that security implemented for the RSS feed is...

Creating an RSS feed in ASP.NET 3.5

How would you create an RSS feed in ASP.NET 3.5 using C#? What framework pieces would help in making the publishing of an RSS or Atom feed easier for the .NET developer? Are there any extra features in .NET 4 to make this task easier than in 3.5? ...

Organization of RSS Reader

I'm creating my own RSS Reader, and to see which RSS items were already downloaded I'm converting the links(of each item) to MD5 hashes. When an RSS feed is loaded, it adds all the items to a ListView object and then checks the MD5 hashes against a text file and removes the ones that already exist. This way, only new items are shown. ...