I've done some googling on the topic of getting older rss feeds and found clues that there's a possibility that rss feed provides such service.
Is there a way to determine whether the feed does provide older records or not?
how about the ancient art of just asking the rss provider?
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I use a third party podcast app called Overcast and I was curious how it gets the list of podcasts and episodes available, as my understanding is that it is difficult to get from iTunes. Is there a service that provides this information? I am assuming they would not maintain it themselves manually.
Overcast likely does not reference iTunes at all. When they learn about a new podcast, they can add the RSS feed to their database of podcasts. That RSS feed tells any subscribers (who are using iTunes, Overcast, and any other podcast apps) what episodes are available to download.
Do you know if there is a similar way to have a RSS Feed for a specific activeMQ queue in Hawtio like in the old web console? If not, is there a wish list for future features?
There is currently no such functionality.
You can log a ticket in the hawtio issue tracker at https://github.com/hawtio/hawtio
Thanks Claus Ibsen,
I followed your advice and a ticket for it is opened.
I am developing a system that has a database for news headlines from various sources. I have not worked with RSS before so I am confused about a lot of things. Can anyone please point a good tutorial for how to develop such a thing? Thanks
In my mind, I have questions like:
1) How will I get the latest news feed? do I have to check the rss feed link every few minutes and see If it's different than the previous one?
2) Is it a good practice to parse the feed xml myself or use a feed reader kind of thing?
3) Will I have any control over the feed sent to me. e.g I only need news feed for Google or Intel.
RSS is a very standard format you can start learning at w3c school.
About your questions.
If you can talk with the RSS provider, maybe they can notify each time
something new comes. They can use, for example,
XML-RPC notification.
You can also ask the RSS provider how often should you check the feed
(in case they cannot provide any kind of notification).
I think it's better to develop your own bot. There is lot of
frameworks that can deal with rss format. In case you are working with C# you can try with SyndicationFeed Class
I'm not sure if I'm undestanding your problem, but if the provider
puts a RSS link at your disposal, you must actively navigate that
feed. When you have that feed, you can work with the metadata in
order to see what's interesting for you. For example checking "category" or "channel" node.
Planning to start a small aggregator for a personal project, so far I have a few inquiries on gathering information for the site. I'm still clueless on where to begin. what kind of infrastructure do i need? where do i get the feeds and can I sort them out depending on the theme of the info requested?
any feedback is appreciated. thanks
This is a pretty open-ended question, but here's where I'd start:
Technology for handling feeds -- WCF Syndication. Also, read and understand the RSS and Atom specs.
Infrastructure -- depends on your situation. Is it just for you, or a few friends or are you talking about building the next Google Reader? If it's smaller-scale, then look at a hosting solutions like GoDaddy, DiscountASP.NET, etc. (There's hundreds of them.) If you're talking a larger-scale type of solution, look at hosting it in the cloud - Rackspace, Amazon, Windows Azure.
Where do you get feeds? Pretty much anywhere. Personally, if this site is for other users, let the users enter them in (why be in the business of trying to guess what feeds people would want to subscribe to?).
I think you need to provide more requirements in order to get more solid feedback. Start with looking at WCF Syndication and get a feel for that library in terms of how to programmatically handle RSS and ATOM feeds (both subscribing and publishing). Once you understand that, I think you'll have a better handle on your next steps.
Hope this helps.
I want to manage a Google Reader "folder" of feeds that I can add and subtract feeds to programatically. I presume that's possible but I can't seem to find any API documentation on that subject. Any advice?
thx
The public API isn't available yet unfortunately... I am eagerly awaiting it myself.
I know there is an unofficial version documented but it is outdated anyways.