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What is the best way to embed HTML in an RSS feed?

I am using Django's RSS capabilities to build an RSS feed. The <description> of the RSS feed items contains HTML markup. Currently, I am just injecting the HTML markup into the feed using the following template: {{ obj.post }} Django, of course, translates special characters (<, >, &, etc.) to their respective HTML entities. I know I...

iTunes COM/AppleScript - podcast RSS

I need to get a list of the RSS subscriptions from iTunes. I'm using the COM interface that Apple provides for controlling iTunes, and have tried this both on Windows and Mac. e.g. tell application "iTunes" repeat with a_track in tracks of playlist "Podcasts" get artist of a_track get album of a_track get name of a_...

Validating an RSS feed

I'm working on an application that allows users to add their own RSS feeds to a simple reader of sorts. Currently, I'm using xml_domit_rss as the parser but I'm unsure if it's actually validating the URL before parsing. From what I can gather online, it looks as if validating is separate from the parse, either by using a service (feedval...

RSS Feed Stocks

Hi, I didn't realize until today that you can't get an RSS feed for a stock quote. Can someone suggest to me ways I can pull data from a service for a particular stock quote? It should include information about the stock etc. Thanks. I will be working in .NET. ...

Recommendations: Easy To Use/Low Dependency C/C++ RSS Library

Just like the title says. Anyone know of an RSS reading library for C/C++? Ideally: Minimal/no outside non-standard dependencies Easy to use API Cross platform would be ideal, but I'm OK with Win* only if necessary. I'd just rather not roll my own if necessary. :) ...

What is the best way to get RSS Feeds into a MySQL Database

I am trying to take several RSS feeds, and put the content of them into a MySQL Database using PHP. After I store this content, I will display on my own page, and also combine the content into one single RSS Feed. (Probably after filtering) I haven't dealt with RSS Feeds before, so I am wondering the best Framework/Method of doing this ...

Add RSS auto-detection when using Zend Layout

I've got a site using Zend Layouts and on certain pages I'd like to add RSS auto-detection (adding a <link> in the head section). How do I add this to the layout just on certain pages? ...

How to get the Full Entry in a RSS 2.0 feed

I have used several different scripts that people have suggested for trying to parse RSS including Magpie and the SimpleXML feature in PHP. But none seem to handle RSS 2.0 well because they will not give me back the full content chunk. Does anyone have a suggestion for reading a feed like the one found at http://chacha102.com/feed/, and ...

Parsing XML With Python

I'm building a simple web base rss reader in python, but I'm having trouble parsing the xml. I started out by trying some stuff in the python command line. >>> from xml.dom import minidom >>> import urllib2 >>> url ='http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml' >>> xmldoc = minidom.parse(urllib2.urlopen(url)) >>> channelnode = xmldoc.getElements...

Getting the Wordpress Rss file

I'm running a wordpress blog and would like to access the actual file that creates the feed. Unfortunately when I do that it throws up a lot of errors because it's using a lot of functions. My current best idea is to make a duplicate file that doesn't need those functions or has them hard coded in but I want to get a 2nd opinion on this...

Images in RSS feed

Whenever I see images in an RSS feed, they are embedded in CDATA, rather than surrounded by tags. In my feed, I would like the images to show up without doing that. Whether in the browser, or a feed reader (Bloglines) or through FeedBurner, the following structure does not show images, although it is valid RSS. Does anyone have experie...

Open Source RSS Aggregation and Advertising

Does anyone know of any open source projects with some of the same features as FeedBurner, including support for: Aggregation Advertising Feed stats Preferably in .NET / C#, but not strictly required. ...

Error accessing RSS feed from Silverlight with WebClient()

I'm downloaded the code from John Papa's book here: http://silverlight-data.com/ and am sucessfully running the Chapter 7 example which allows you to press a button and it reads RSS from digg.com and then displays it. So, then I replaced the digg URL http://services.digg.com/stories/topic/microsoft/?appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.silverligh...

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) tool to convert files and file contents to RSS?

I need something that takes a directory's contents and then proceeds to generate an RSS based on what is IN the files in the directory, meaning: /myDir -ls . .. a.xml b.xml c.xml d.txt The mechanism I'm looking for would only look through the files with extension .xml, and would assemble their contents into one larger .xml (or .rss) ...

Obtain the blog feed URL automatically.

Given a blog URL, obtain its RSS feed URL. I know this question was asked here, but I'm looking for a framework independent algorithm, however I'd prefer code in C#. ...

Unobtrusive, realtime notifications of new RSS entries.

First, why I ask: Now that reputation points on StackOverflow have real value (you can spend them on damn good answers by offering bounties) I'd like to monitor questions I might be able to answer and pounce on them! (Also the fact that others answer my questions in real time makes StackOverflow amazingly handy, so it would be nice to ...

PubDate/Guid is essential to RSS? How I create a good RSS in Yahoo! Pipes if the source doesn't provide different dates for the items?

I am creating a Yahoo! Pipe to a news site but the feedless source doesn't have a date/time for each item. My RSS doesn't works very well: each update makes the RSS Reader, Google Reader for instance, to mark all readed items as unreaded again. Perhaps that's because of the lack of pubDate tag or incorrect guid tag. 1) How to create a "...

How to programmatically determine whether an RSS feed is a full feed or a partial feed

I would need to programmatically determine whether an RSS feed exposes the full content of its articles or just extracts of them. How would you do it? ...

Read rss and show as html

I am using google reader for my RSS, i want to export all my shared or starred rss items to HTML to take this html and put on my website Do any one have an idea about? And one important thing as well, can i page through this html? i mean to export as pages not all in one html page to let the user on my site page through my starred feeds...

How do I add a CSS stylesheet to a WCF generated RSS feed?

I have a WCF service that uses a System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed to create an RSS feed. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to add a Processing Instruction to output that points to my CSS stylesheet. What I need is a processing instruction that looks a bit like this: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="http://y...