When we fetch rss with a rss reader, does the reader mark the read/unread status or send this kind of information back to the server?
After I read a message, then I turn to another rss reader, do I will receive all the rss records marked unread?
No, the information is stored locally on your computer, or in the case of Google Reader, on Google's server. A website sends the same RSS XML out to everyone.
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My organisation is using Google Chat for internal communication. In one of the group in the app I am sending the report of daily automation test run using webhook. Currently the report consist of only text message containing the pass/ fail count.
But I want to send the html report as well with that. I could not found any source which tell the information about how to send the attachment in the bot messages in Google chat.
Please help me if someone knows how to send the attachment report using Google Chat Bot or Webhook.
Per documentation, Bots have limited message types they can send. (Only simple text, or Cards)
I would suggest sending a link to download the report, which is feasible with the bot. See Including links in message text
We have generated one RSS feed and submitted to itunes few months ago. Now we realised we have added the wrong email. So can we update the email id in our rss feed? If we update in our rss feed, Do we need to submit again? please let us know about this. Thank you.
<itunes:owner>
<itunes:name>FeedForAll</itunes:name>
<itunes:email>abc#abc.com</itunes:email>
</itunes:owner>
Here is a snippet from Apples's doco on podcast rss feeds...
<itunes:owner>
The podcast owner contact information.
Include the email address of the owner in a nested <itunes:email> tag
and the name of the owner in a nested <itunes:name> tag.
Note: The <itunes:owner> tag information is for administrative
communication about the podcast and isn’t displayed in Apple Podcasts.
Please make sure the email address is active and monitored.
Once Apple has verified the ownership and quality of your rss feed (i.e. through the podcast submission process) then your podcast is active in their directory.
From that point you are free to update your feed however you like, as long as your updates continue to conform to Apple's rss feed requirements.
In this case, if you update the value of the <itunes:email> then the change should automatically be picked up during the next feed refresh. i.e. you shouldn't need to resubmit.
Note: you should still use a valid email address in that tag so that people can contact you if there are issues with your feed, or they genuinely want to get in touch, etc. If you are worried about spam, then perhaps use an email address that different from your day-to-day address. i.e. One that you can access/check when you need to but that won't bother you if it gets hit with spam. You can drop in there and check it/clear it out occasionally as needed.
Also worth thinking about. Other podcast directories sometimes rely on email addresses in rss feeds in order to verify ownership. E.g. this is how Google uses it...
Step 3: Verify ownership
After you’ve submitted your RSS feed, review the email address used to
verify ownership of your podcast. To verify that you own the podcast
content you’re adding, you need to have an email address in the
<googleplay:email> or <itunes:email> field of your podcast’s RSS feed.
Click Send verification code. Check the email account listed for your
verification email. Visit the link included in the email to complete
the verification process.
I am developing a web application that heavily utilizes RSS feeds.
I have found you can query Google to get statistics and analytics on your RSS Feed (very useful, if you administer RSS feeds, you should check it out! Retrieving Google Reader stats for RSS feed and items)
Now that I have a method to determine a list of Google Reader User Ids that like a feed item, I would like to know how I could use this User Id.
Specifically, is there a way I can link a User Id to a Google Account - if they are logged in through a web interface like Stack Overflow does?
If this is not possible, what public information can be gathered about a particular Google Reader User Id? Is there documentation on this API? (note, I am not looking for Google Reader API, which, from my understanding, allows you to build your own RSS Reader)
Try http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/people/profile?u=14290265284323789574
I have a web app that generates RSS feeds. I would like to offer users the ability to subscribe to these RSS feeds by email.
I know I can use Feedburner to manually burn my feeds and offer email subscriptions. The problem is I offer hundreds of RSS feeds and don’t want to manually burn a feed just for this one feature.
Does anyone know of a service or API (preferably free) that allows you to create an RSS feed to email sign up on the fly? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
-Ace
You can use the Feedburner Managment API to programatically burn your feeds - and then enable email subscription.
Feedburner(http://feedburner.google.com) provides statistics about RSS feed of subscribers and reaches. This is interesting.
It is easy to understand that Feedburner can count visits (reaches) to a RSS feed. But, how does Feedburner get to know subscribers to a RSS feed.
In my understanding, each requests to RSS Feed URI is independent. There are no cookies or identity validation. So, how does feedburner know how many subscribers to a RSS feed?
The easy part is Google tell it the number of Google Readers, and so do the other Reader/Aggregators.
For individual users polling the RSS/Atom feed, there are http headers involved in the request, so users are tracked by IP address, and when behind proxies, a number of proxies include original IP in header, this helps sort between proxied sources.
Failing that you could read the FeedBurner help on that topic.
I wonder if it knows anything at all.
--- end sarcasm ---
Seriously, my sub numbers for my blog will jump from about 2k to about 3k at the drop of a hat.
Determining subscriber count is an inexact science at best.
It does rely on reporting from other services, and sometimes these services go down, or they change how they report.
Services like FeedBurner are actualy a proxy feed to your blog's feed. So when you use FeedBurner (or alike) users subscribe to a feed hosted on Google's servers that is fed from your feed.
Thusly people are really subscribing to the feed hosted by Google and they can then get statistics just as if you were visiting a site.