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how to use google feed api to detect feeds updates

Because I run a blog aggregator website which checks a large list of RSS feeds for new posts every hour so I will be happy if its possible to use google feed api or Google AJAX Feed API instead of making the cron jobs to read the whole feed to know if its updated or not. like this link text ...

Popular MySQL rss feeds

Are there any popular Mysql rss feeds you guys can recommend? IBM has random articles but those are usually not enough ...

Problems Reading RSS with C# and .net 3.5

I have been attempting to write some routines to read RSS and ATOM feeds using the new routines available in System.ServiceModel.Syndication, but unfortunately the Rss20FeedFormatter bombs out on about half the feeds I try with the following exception: An error was encountered when parsing a DateTime value in the XML. This seems to ...

Parsing Atom & RSS in Ruby/Rails?

I'm looking for something that will let me parse Atom and RSS in Ruby and Rails. I've looked at the standard RSS library, but is there one library that will auto-detect whatever type of feed it is and parse it for me? ...

How does Google Reader get every item in an RSS feed?

Slashdot's RSS feed is http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot. If I download the XML file directly, I only get a few of the posts from today. However, if I subscribe to the feed in Google Reader, and keep scrolling down in their "infinite scroll" interface, it seems like I can get an arbitrary number of Slashdot posts from the past --...

Creating RSS feed from database, how many items to put into feed so that they are all likely to be consumed?

I'm creating several RSS feeds from a database to publish things like job openings, volunteer opportunities, and links in general. My question is, how many items should be returned in the feed so that it is most likely that someone will get all the items in their reader without any gaps? SELECT TOP 100 ? (obviously would need to be set...

Source for Flash based RSS1/RSS2/ATOM/RDF reader?

Does anyone know where to find a good, opensource RSS reader in Flash? I see lots that implement RSS or ATOM or RSS2, but none that do all of the different RSS style formats out there. I'd prefer to keep this in Flash, as I'm trying to keep this so it'll run with minimal server requirements... Requirements: - Parses RSS1/RSS2/ATOM/RDF, ...

Parsing different date formats from feedparser in python?

I'm trying to get the dates from entries in two different RSS feeds through feedparser. Here is what I'm doing: import feedparser as fp reddit = fp.parse("http://www.reddit.com/.rss") cc = fp.parse("http://contentconsumer.com/feed") print reddit.entries[0].date print cc.entries[0].date And here's how they come out: 2008-10-21T22:23:...

Parse RSS with jQuery

I am looking for a jQuery solution to parse RSS feeds. I want something reusable and easy... Know of a plugin? Or a way to do this with jQuery base? ...

Good RSS news feed for JavaFx news and resources

...Yes I've seen: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116519/best-resources-for-learning-javafx but it doesn't really answer the question. Maybe there just aren't any good resources at the moment? UPDATE: http://developers.sun.com/rss/javafx.xml is OK ...

Which is better for encoding HTML for RSS?

I recently introduced HTML into some RSS feeds that I publish (which up to now only had plain text, no markup), and I was wondering which method is better: use character encoding (such as htmlspecialchars) or just encapsulate everything in CDATA? It seems to me that CDATA might be easier, but I'm unclear as to whether there might be any...

Reading collections of extended elements in an RSS feed with Universal Feed Parser

Is there any way to read a collection of extension elements with Universal Feed Parser? This is just a short snippet from Kuler RSS feed: <channel> <item> <!-- snip: regular RSS elements --> <kuler:themeItem> <kuler:themeID>123456</kuler:themeID> <!-- snip --> <kuler:themeSwatches> <kuler:swatch> ...

Strip WordML from a string

Hi, I've been tasked with build an accessible RSS feed for my company's job listings. I already have an RSS feed from our recruiting partner; so I'm transforming their RSS XML to our own proxy RSS feed to add additional data as well limit the number of items in the feed so we list on the latest jobs. The RSS validates via feedvalidator...

Can I serve RSS in JSON?

I am writing an RSS feed (for fun) and was looking at the spec here. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. Obviously this means that I am not serving 'pure' RSS if I choose the JSON option. That said, if I conform to the rest of...

Best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds with PHP

I'm currently using Magpie RSS but it sometimes falls over when the RSS or Atom feed isn't well formed. Are there any other options for parsing RSS and Atom feeds with PHP? ...

How do you generate an RSS feed?

I've never done it myself, and I've never subscribed to a feed, but it seems that I'm going to have to create one, so I'm wondering. The only way that seems apparent to me is that when the system is updated with a new item (blog post, news item, whatever), a new element should be written to the rss file. Or alternatively have a script th...

Format RSS pubDate as .NET DateTime

How would I format the standard RSS pubDate string as something closer to ASP.NET's DateTime? So, from this: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:14:48 +0000 to this: 10/29/2008 2:14 PM ...

How do I parse and convert DateTime’s to the RFC 822 date-time format?

How do I convert a DateTime structure to its equivalent RFC 822 date-time formatted string representation and parse this string representation back to a DateTime structure? The RFC-822 date-time format is used in a number of specifications such as the RSS Syndication Format. ...

How to read a mailing list as RSS

Hi Im subscribed in a mailing list that i use only as reference for developing and im trying to read it with my rss client but the mailing list doesnt provide the rss. So i thought it should be a way to convert the mailing list to a rss i was trying to find some php class to install it in my server but cant find anyone. Can you suggest...

Is there a service that can take a feed and produce a daily digest from it?

I run a feed aggregator (http://planetdb2.com/) and I need to aggregate both prolific (many posts a day) and less prolific (one post a day at most) feeds. Creating a daily digest -- one post summary of the day's posts -- seems like the best solution. There's a way to create a daily digest just for Twitter feeds via Yahoo Pipes, but it...