I want to create a gadget for my blog that shows the Apple RSS Feed. How do I do this?
If you want to create a new gadget, please see the documentation on how to do this and then come back to Stack Overflow when you have a more directed question. It's hard for us to help you much with such a broad question.
However, it sounds like you just want a gadget that displays a particular RSS feed. In this case you just need to use the RSS Feed gadget that's already included in Blogger. Just go in to configure your site, add a gadget to the sidebar or wherever you want it, and then specify the gadget to be the RSS Feed gadget. You can then customize the gadget to point to a particular RSS feed, in this case the Apple one you want.
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I am new to RSS/Atom feeds and there are a couple of points that I don't quite understand from doing some basic research.
Firstly, how do I tell if a website has an RSS/Atom feed? I can't see an icon for it on the website but is there anything else I can look at that will give me an indication that there is a feed?
Secondly, if there isn't an RSS/Atom Feed, is it going to be possible to create an RSS/Atom feed that will always be up-to-date without being a webmaster of the site? I am essentially wanting to use an RSS/Atom feed to get web pages that have products that are going to be resold on another website. Is this going to be possible if these pages aren't already in an RSS/ATOM feed? I know there are tools that allow you to make an RSS Feed of any webpage but I believe you have to re-do it if any content changes.
Thanks for your time.
To find out if a site offers an RSSAtom feed, use feed auto-discovery.
No, if you're not the publisher of the site, you can't publish an RSS feed which is consistently up to date.
(This isn't strictly programming so let me know if there's a better place I could be putting this.)
I'm using an RSS feed to import job listings into a WordPress site. For example, this feed listed here gives me the name of the institution and the salary. However, the site also gives more information in its own listings. Is there a way of bringing that in as well or is the nature of RSS that you can only take what you're offered?
N.B. I have Settings -> Reading > For each article in a feed, show set to Full text.
In your own feeds you can choose whether to publish your full content or not.
If the site you're referring to chose not to do so, you won't be able to access it. At least not via RSS
I googled and googled try to find something relevant but no luck.
I'm setting up a 'daily tips' campaign for a client and I have to use RSS to do it.
In more detail I use MailChimp and I create a RSS-Driven campaign.
On the other side in the blog of the website there are daily scheduled posts.
I'm trying to find a way to only get the first paragraph of the each post to give it to MailChimp and include it in the email.
So that the structure ends up like this:
Post title
Post's first paragraph
Read more link
Any ideas?
I don't think this is possible within Mailchimp directly, but you you might try FeedsAPI if you have a specific feed, even perfect if it's a not so popular feed since they can create specific extraction patterns for cases like this, it's however a paid service.
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'm working on some RSS feeds for a custom task system we have. The main feed will show a list of tasks assigned to the current user. The link attribute for each task returned points to the web page for that task. However, tasks themselves have an RSS feed for updates, and I want to be able to provide a link for that RSS feed with the main feed as well. How can I do both?
The solution I'm thinking of right now is setting the article's title attribute to include an <a href="..." link to the actual article, and the it's link attribute to be a link to the feed (or vice versa). However, I'm not sure that will work well since most readers display the title as linking to the link (if that makes any sense to you).
Also, is this something that's supported natively by atom?
Make the content of each item in the original RSS feed HTML. (I believe you'll have to CDATA escape the block). Within this content put a hyperlink to the updates feed RSS.
Why not add it to the entry summary as links?