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A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

A typical scenario of web feed use is:

  • a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines;
  • doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content;
  • if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically. Web feeds are an example of pull technology, although they may appear to push content to the user.
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Creating RSS feed from database, how many items to put into feed so that they are all likely to be consumed?

I'm creating several RSS feeds from a database to publish things like job openings, volunteer opportunities, and links in general. My question is, how many items should be returned in the feed so that it is most likely that someone will get all the…
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How big is too big for an RSS feed XML file?

I'm implementing an RSS feed for a website and I don't understand certain things about the format/size/content of the XML file for the feed. I'm initializing the site with the past data, which runs back to 1999 (there was no feed at any point before…
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Adding Images or Thumbnails to Atom 1.0 Entries

This StackOverflow answer suggests that you should use HTML entry content and use a standard tag to link to your images.
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Get current news for a location

Is it possible in an iOS application to get current news for a particular location ? Is there some api available where I can pass location as parameter and get news for that location ?
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Displaying Twitter feed stopped working

The default way to display a twitter feed has stopped working. Here is an example code: The feed should…
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Questions about generating an iCal feed

Other than providing an URL to request the most recent iCal feed, anything I need to pay special attention to generating an iCal feed?? How to indicate if ics file has been updated or not? http header LAST-MODIFIED? What to do if the iCal file is…
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Best approch of Elastic Search time based feeds module?

I am new with elastic search and looking for the best solution with which i can create a feed module which have time based feeds along with there group and comment. I learned little and come up with following. PUT /group { "mappings":…
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java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.gdata.data.TextContent cannot be cast to com.google.gdata.data.OutOfLineContent

I would slide all cell in a sheetwork , but I don't resolve. My code is: SpreadsheetService service = new SpreadsheetService("MyApp"); try{ URL SPREADSHEET_URL = new…
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OAuthException (#368) The action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed

I'm trying to post a feed on my wall or on the wall on some of my friends using Graph API. I gave all permissions that this application needs, allow them when i make the request from my page, I'm having a valid access token but even though this…
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RSS Auto Discovery

I've been doing web dev for years, but this is my first jump into XML. I've created an RSS feed and I cannot figure out how to get the browser to "discover" my feed and display the little RSS icon in the address bar. The website in question is:…
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Facebook Open Graph API: weird behavior of parameter limit while getting a paginated user's news feed

I've written a little script in JAVA, that tests the parameter limit with four different values (10, 100, 1000 and 10000) when querying a user's news feed of Facebook using the Open Graph API and the RestFB client. As you'll see, it has a strange…
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How to properly place Date in element on RSS feed

I'm using RSS Graffitty to post RSS items to a facebook page. The app told me the items were missing the publication date so I added this tag: echo "".$row['Date'].""; $row['Date'] is obtained from my MySQL database and it's a…
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RSS Feed for Apple News Format

We are creating a feed specifically for Apple News in order to submit our news content. Naturally, I've been going over the provided documentation after ensuring the feed is RSS 2.0 compliant to make sure that it is also compliant with Apple…
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RSS Feed parser library in Java

Is there any Java helper utils/libraries available for parsing Rss/Atom feed? I checked RSSUtils but it looks like outdated.
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Rails AtomFeedBuilder Entry :Url option appears in url tag but not in link tag

I'm using the AtomFeedHelper and everything is working fine except for one feed where I need to link each entry to a URL which is not the default polymorphic_url for the record. Per the documentation I've specified an :url option for the entry. This…
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