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Is there a PHP feed reader for both RSS and ATOM?

Hello, I need a PHP library/script that can retreive data from feeds, no matter if they are RSS or ATOM, because I want users to insert random feeds which will then be stored in a database. It would also be great if it could check whether a given URL is a feed or not. If anything exists that could help me out, could anyone tell me? Tha...

How do you build a web-based RSS reader that doesn't mess up reader statistics for blog authors?

My company is starting work on building a web-based RSS reader that users can sign up to and track feeds; a lot like Google Reader. My first thought was that once I have a feed URL for a certain blog or website, I'd only have to poll it once in order to grab the content and then insert entries into the database for anyone who subscribes...

Publish to RSS from command line

From a Windows command line, I'd like to be able to publish to an RSS feed. I visualize something like this: rsspub @builds "Build completed without errors." Then, someone could go to my computer: http://xp64-Matt:9090/builds/rss.xml And there'd be a new entry with the date and time and the simple text "Build completed without erro...

How to convert sqlite3 database to RSS feed for a static site?

I need to create an RSS feed from a sqlite3 database containing blog posts. The site that will use the feed is on Google App Engine but is a static site currently. To create an RSS feed would it be easier to use a server-side script in Python or to use a Windows software tool (e.g. FeedForAll) to produce the news feed, say, once a week? ...

What is the best way to monitor community-driven websites like stackoverflow, digg, etc?

I've tried RSS feeds, but these always-updating sites that have tons of entries per day just fill up my poor reader. I do keep my Google Reader, I monitor quite a few feeds, but they are all (with the exception of Lifehacker and icanhascheezburger) feeds that have at most one or two entries per day. Right now, I keep a bookmark in my to...

Whereabout of the RSS4J project

Anyone know what is the project home site of the RSS4J. I found several reference on Maven repositories, but can't find the original project site. Also is this project alive? ...

Problem sorting RSS feed by date using XSL

I'm creating a website where I need to show the top 5 records from an RSS feed, and these need to be sorted by date and time. The date fields in the RSS feed are in the following format: "Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:02:44 GMT" I'm having big problems getting the records to sort correctly - I've tried lots of different code examples I've seen, ...

Scrape and generate RSS feed

I use Simple HTML DOM to scrape a page for the latest news, and then generate an RSS feed using this PHP class. This what I have now: <?php // This is a minimum example of using the class include("FeedWriter.php"); include('simple_html_dom.php'); $html = file_get_html('http://www.website.com'); foreach($html->find('td[width="380...

Best practices for developing a feed aggregator / proxy?

I'm looking into writing a proxy aggregator for feeds, where a handful of users specify a feed URL and some set of conditions, and the system outputs a continually-updated RSS/Atom feed of entries that match those conditions. Are there best practices for feed aggregators? (Or filtering feed proxies?) For example: Are there certain fe...

How can I read RSS in VIM?

Would like to read RSS in VIM, but I haven't found a plugin out there. You guys have any idea? ...

DBMS to store RSS feeds

I'm not very experienced with DBMS systems so I need some advice about which DBMS to use for storing RSS feeds. The DBMS must be available on Linux and be free. I have some experience with MySQL but I am unsure if it performs fast enough to handle the storage and updates of hundreds of thousands of xml documents. ...

Managing RSS feeds

I am developing for a website that has an event "listing" service. It uses an rss feed (located at the web root under the name 'rss.xml') to give an RSS feed of the events to users who are interested in the service. I've been tasked with developing a blog for the website. I have the blog piece done, but I'm not sure the best way to inte...

C# RSS Reader

I have been wanting to make a RSS reader for a while now (just for fun), but I don't have the slightest idea of where to start. I don't understand anything about RSS. Are there any good tutorials on RSS and how to implement it in an application (not a tutorial on how to make a RSS reader, that would be too easy). Thanks! ...

How Do I Fetch All Old Items on an RSS Feed?

I've been experimenting with writing my own RSS reader. I can handle the "parse XML" bit. The thing I'm getting stuck on is "How do I fetch older posts?" Most RSS feeds only list the 10-25 most recent items in their XML file. How do I get ALL the items in a feed, and not just the most recent ones? The only solution I could find was ...

I'd like to scrape the iTunes top X RSS feed and insert into a dB...

Preferably I'd like to do so with some bash shell scripting, maybe some PHP or PERL and a MySQL db. Thoughts? ...

RSS description html sanitizing in .NET

I want to write an application that consumes RSS. I want to be able to show some items in the item description of the RSS feed as HTML, such as images, links, br, etc. However, I don't want any embedded scripts to run, unruly css elements, etc. I don't want to re-invent the wheel either. Are their any libraries that strip out just th...

how to use rss feed ?

im new to this if somebody could help me .... ...

Syndicating RSS 1.0 using WCF

Using the new syndication API, is there any smooth ways to read RSS 1.0 feeds? found http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/comments/116679.aspx with an explination of how to read atom 0.3. Do we realy need to create our own xslt to transform the feed from RSS 1.0 to RSS 2.0? ...

Ruby RSS/Atom processor that knows which items I have already processed in the feed

Is there a ruby class or project that processes RSS/Atom feeds and keeps a track of the items I have already processed. ...

What is the correct MIME type to use for an RSS feed?

Is one MIME type preferable to ensure compatibility with RSS readers and other scrapers? The options seem to be: text/xml text/rss+xml Interestingly Stackoverflow is using text/html. ...