I have a Google Alert, which I set to be delivered as an RSS feed as-it-happens
But is polling that RSS feed the only way to get RSS feed
or
is there a way to get notified from Google alert as the feed is published from Google? (say through a webservice, etc)
Google Alerts feeds support PubSubHubbub which essentially pushes notifications of updated content to you if you register on the feed's hub.
They're using the hub at pubsubhubbub.appspot.com
More info on PuSH here: http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
Sounds like you want a PubSubHubBub for your alerts
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I want to track outbound clicks from different rss feeds which are fetched and displayed as links on my site. (popurls.com type site)
Is there a way to do this? Thanks
You could use a platform such as Google Analytics, which would handle all this for you.
That link is to a support page with instructions on link tracking.
I get this user agent Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 1 subscribers; feed-id=17582163705065100568) in my logs coming from a google domain even if there is no way you could read rss feeds through google and still I see there is 1 subscriber.
Even though the Google Feed API has been deprecated, it's still possible that some people are subscribed to your feed(s) thru that? Also, don't forget that Google uses RSS as a discovery mechanism for its search engine.
As far as I know, in order to get RSS in real time (i.e be pubsubhubbub subscriber) , the one who generates the RSS feed, must be a pubsubhubbub publisher, which means the RSS feed must include a tag which includes the HUB address.
However, there are lots of RSS feeds (published using RSS 2.0 only and not pubsubhubbub) which I can subscribe to via Feedly.
How is it possible?
Thanks,
Qwerty
So, Feedly does use PubSubHubbub, thru Superfeedr (and other hubs, such as Google's or Wordpress).
Fir the feeds which do not support PubSubHubbub, Feedly polls feeds at regular intervals. You may want to check this other question for more details.
Also, please note that Superfeedr can also be used as a "default hub" which works even for feeds which do not support PubSubHubbub.
I am working with the soundcloud API and I want to send a user a push Notification on iOS whenever a targeted user uploads a new track. The app is developed with the Ionic Framework/ Cordova. I've looked into Amazon SNS and Parse but I can't find a way to watch the array. I can also do this through a RSS feed if that is easier.
Thanks
RSS is probably a pretty good way to detect new episodes/sounds posted. Hopefully, Soundcloud will implement PubSubHubbub, or you'll have to fetch/parse the feeds yourself.
Once you've identified the new entries, you can then sent the notifications.
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.