There is a difference whether I search for something on news.google.com:
Or on google.com -> News tab:
For my purposes I get more useful results on the News tab on google.com and I need to know how to create an rss feed by search query. For news.google.com I can do it like this:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}
But what is the right URL format for the google.com -> News tab way?
Answer: I don't think it is possible because Google Search is a different service than Google News. Google Search doesn't have a RSS feed.
The only way you can get something similar is news.google.com feed is with https://www.google.com/search?q={query}&tbm=nws&num=100 which will return the top 100 results from the news tab from Google Search.
&tbm=nws will give you the news tab.
&num=100 will return the top 100 results which I believe Google News RSS feed is returning.
Use the "Create alert" button at the bottom of the news page.
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I know the title is rough, what I mean is could you have a blog that had an RSS feed that would display your posts in an RSS reader, but the website itself doesn't have any page that showed it in blog format (of course there would need to be a link for the feed itself but that's not an easily readable format so that's ok). The only way to see the posts would be subscribing to the RSS feed, there wouldn't even be a URL you could go to that'd show it.
I think I know the answer, but wanted to double check:
Should the link tag in an RSS feed always point to a website's home page or to the most relevant page?
What I mean: say there is a website devoted to real estate (http://www.realestate.com) that has multiple RSS feeds. One RSS feed is latest listings, one RSS feed is latest home listings, one RSS feed is latest apartment listings, etc. The home listings can be found at http://www.realestate.com/home-listings.html. The apartment listings can be found at http://www.realestate.com/apartment-listings.html
Should the link tag for all 3 RSS feeds point to http://www.realestate.com/? Or should it point to, respectively, http://www.realestate.com/, http://www.realestate.com/home-listings.html and http://www.realestate.com/appartment-listings.html?
The RSS "Profile" states that "The link element identifies the URL of the web site associated with the feed (required)."
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#element-channel-link
But let's be pragamtic. The intention here, is certainly to let the user click on the link to go to the source of information.
I think it would be better to link to the apropriate section than to the homepage.
I have a website where users can select some options and based on the selected values an atom feed will be generated.
Now I would like to add ads to the feed using Google Adsense, which points me to Feedburner.
But Feedburner seems to support only static urls.
Unless of course I manually create a Feedburner feed for every combination a user can enter, but that's not feasible..
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I like giving my users the full text RSS feed, but I also have a few sites which pull the RSS feed and link to us from it. They want me to provide the excerpt/blurbs for the articles rather than the full text. Can anyone give me some direction on how to make this happen?
It should be possible. Wordpress has multiple feed types (see WordPress Feeds) and there are hooks for each feed type (see Feed Actions API). This suggests that you should be able to set up one feed type as a partial feed, and another as a full-text feed. Basically, you'd just be re-writing one of these feed types to ignore the setting you indicated on the "Reading Settings" admin screen.
I bet this could be done w/ a pretty simple plug-in.
I've been having problems with a Google News feed. Its description field contains a whole bunch of HTML along with the actual one sentence teaser of the news story. What language/technology do I need to learn/use to massage this feed into something prettier?
Yahoo pipes might be what you could use http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/