I am setting up RSS feeds for searches and journal alerts from the EBSCO
database in iGoogle. The widget only allows three results on my iGoogle page
but I might have 10 or 12 articles or results that should be fed into the spot.
EBSCO said I had to edit the html code to a number larger than 3. However,
the code is lengthy and I don't seem to find a number three to edit.
Has anyone done this?
The basic gadget that google provide by default displays only the latest 3 items. There is a preference that every user has to display up to 9 entries, but we leave this up to the user to decide.
It is relatively easy for you to develop your own gadget that display your RSS feed with more items.
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I'm trying to do a google search and get the first 5 result (title/URL) into a excel document.
I tried using 'Data Scraping' but depending on the search term, google will display a different page. Sometimes its will have video, images or related search term. So most of the time, I was not able to actually get all the result from the page as uiPath would not recognize them, probably because of the different div. So my thought was to get them by html tag, as every title use H3 but I can't find a way to do that.
Also tried with find children > get attributes but no success, I feel that might be the best ways tho, I'm just not enough experimented with it to make it work. Tried for hours.
Anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?
When I did this before I had to do multiple scrapes to get the data. The first scrape will get the initial page results and then you can do a second to get data on page 2 forward. I have had instances where i had to do multiple scrapes on the first page to get all the information but after page 1 the data is consistent and easy to scrape. Hope this helps.
I have a doubt regarding the use of Google News RSS Feed. Google News help states this:
Why Google might block an RSS feed In some cases, Google News might
block a feed. That could happen if you are:
Using Google News feeds for profit or to increase traffic to your site
Reformatting news results so they look like your own content
Changing, editing, or creating works based on content from Google News
I am looking to clarify these points:
Can't I customize the look of the feed? I want to have a separate page for news related to content on my website. Will then I violate the second rule if I customize the look of it? For example, I'll display a slideshow on the top along with a listing in the bottom much like FeedWind or Feedgrabber widgets.
I am surely not violating the third one. But everyone displays Google News on their website to sustain traffic right? Isn't the first rule broken by everyone who uses Google news RSS feed on their website?
Can't I customize the look of the feed?
Create an app or script to grab the feed, parse it, decorate it the way you like. Now, you have successfully customized the look.
I want to have a separate page for news related to content on my website. Will then I violate the 2nd rule if I customize the look of it?
A bit critical question. Let me provide you a simple answer: mention at certain corner that it was from google news feed. When google shows you ads, it puts a little AdChoice at a cozy corner by clicking on which you can confirm that that was an ad from google - follow their strategy, give them proper credit.
I am surely not violating the third one. But everyone displays google news on their website to sustain traffic right? Isn't the first rule broken by everyone who uses Google news rss feed on their website?
When you are providing value to others, then people like to act blind and pretend that what they see is not a promotion. For example, free medical camps are not actually done for helping others if they cannot promote them to get prospective patients (clients/customers) or cannot get free media promotion (again free flow of lot of customers) - forget those doctors who are lonely or have no responsibility or for whatever reason serving for free.
I have a requirement to write a program in Java to retrieve all the posts from all the wordpress sites containing a keyword(s).
This is how I approached the problem. I initially thought I would crawl the wordpress sites looking for the keywords I am interested in. But I realized if there is an endpoint for wordpress search, it makes my job a lot easier. So I have looked around to see if there is any search endpoint to submit queries and get the links for the posts.
All I found is just http://wwww.en.search.wordpress.com. I can still tweak the url and get some links. But
I like to know if there is any better way to handle this problem
The search link I posted is for the users and it might be limiting my search results since I query it through a program
Also I like to retrieve posts from the given date range. I am not sure if this is possible with my approach.
Appreciate any help in this regard. Thank you.
How about this approach:
Assuming you don't need to go back to the history and scrap all the data I would just stick to tags
http://en.wordpress.com/tags/
I would crawl it every day get the most popular tags (by font size) then on each tag get the articles published in the past 24 hours
On each post get all the comments and search for your keywords
Would that work? if not please share more details
Good luck
I've implemented GA on our b2b site. It's strictly internal but we'd like to track behaviors of users to see if some of the sections on the site are relevant. So, it's working, but say you have
www.blahblah.com and you want to also track
www.blahblah.com/edit
www.blahblah.com/askquestion
Do you set up a filter for this? I did try it and not sure if it's working quite yet. Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated. I am brand new to GA.
Thanks
Not quite sure what you are asking.
If you want to know about metrics for the individual pages you'd go to to the Aquisition->Page Content reports. Overview will give you, well, an overview (you can use the filter box to look at the metrics for any specific Url), Content Drilldown will display a view structured by url hierarchy.
If you're after user behaviour you can create segments. If you want to know if somebody vistited the homepage and, after that, the /edit page you'd got to advanced segments (the arrow above the "Explorer" Tab in most views, click "create new segment", choose "sequence" from the advanced tab, choose page as dimension and "/" to filter for as step one, "/edit" as filter value for page two, enter a name for the segment and click save. Now you'll get all reports only for visitors who have visited those two pages, starting with the homepage.
There are a number of predefined segments, you should try them to see what they can do. You need a pretty good understanding of metrics and dimensions in GA to get the full value from segments, but the simple stuff (e.g. analyze differences between marketing channels) is already pretty useful.
So, for page performance seek out reports with page metrics and use filters. To analyze user behavior use segments which apply to most of the GA reports.
Hope that helps, if not you might to explain more specifically what you want to see in your reports.
You can create separate custom report for individual sections and drilldown by almost all the GA provided dimensions. please reffer the sampel provided.
Please access this URL in your browser as this is a predefined custom report which does the same thing you want. This will get saved under custom reports. You need to edit the custom report and give your own path/section insted of "/services/" under filters section
On a Drupal app, my goal is to display a page with a couple of CCK or taxonomy drop-down widgets, two Date Popup Calendar widgets and a "fake" submit button. The submit will use ajax to send the info to a PHP page that generates a BIRT report and returns the complete HTML back to the page, which I'll just inject into an empty div. I'd like to keep the controls on the page at all times and just use ajax to keep replacing the div containing my report as the user changes parameters and resubmits.
What's the best way to achieve this? I can handle a decent amount of PHP and JavaScript, but trying to leverage Drupal to create a page and display the controls is proving difficult to understand. Examples I've been reading are either too unrelated or too abstract to be helpful. Thanks!
No love from masses, but after a few more days of hammering on it, I've got BIRT 2.5 reports to play nicely in Drupal 6.16. You can read the whole story and see code samples here: I've completed integrating this with BIRT via a small custom module. You can read the full story with code samples here: http://nicholaiburton.com/blog/2010/creating-custom-reports-for-drupal