Questions tagged [rss]

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of web content syndication formats used to publish frequently updated works — such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video — in a standardized format.

RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.

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How to get RSS token for BitBucket by PHP CLI?

I want to get valid link https://bitbucket.org/{username}/rss/feed?token={token} (this is main problem) and then get valid response from this link in CLI. I know my required parameters, e.g. consumer_key, consumer_secret, request_token_url,…
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Is it still possible to create an RSS feed from a Facebook group?

How do I create an RSS feed of a Facebook group? I see there's sites you can pay, but how do I go about doing it myself? Do they actually scrape the content, or does Facebook actually provide some way to get the information?
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Why does iTunes Store Reviews RSS feed sometimes return no results?

I'm trying to import reviews for certain apps on the iTunes App Store via the public reviews RSS feed. Most of the time the feed returns a list of 50 reviews per page, and gives me links for up to 10 pages. But in the case of some apps, some or all…
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How large RSS reader works (netvibes, Google reader...)

I wonder how web applications like Google Reader, Blogline, techronati works, and what technics they follow to parse millions of RSS feeds using cron job at one time?
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How does Google Reader get every item in an RSS feed?

Slashdot's RSS feed is http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot. If I download the XML file directly, I only get a few of the posts from today. However, if I subscribe to the feed in Google Reader, and keep scrolling down in their "infinite scroll"…
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WordPress WXR Specification

I'm trying to find a spec for the WordPress WXR import/export standard and I'm unable to find any official documentation from WordPress on the standard. Does anyone know of an official resource that could tell me exactly how to produce a WXR file so…
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Which is most used? RSS or Atom? and which one is better to build from?

I am thinking of using either RSS or Atom in my project, but also "enhancing" the feed with some of my own special attributes specifically used by my project. So I have two questions: 1) Which is most used of RSS and Atom on the web and by the big…
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Is there a decent alternative to Yahoo Pipes?

Pipes is being very buggy lately and has stopped saving new pipes these days. Google Mashup Editor and Microsoft Popfly are both discontinued. Are there are any currently running web apps(or atleast libraries that run on appengine) that do…
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Using SimpleXML to read RSS feed

I am using PHP and simpleXML to read the following rss feed: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/england/rss.xml I can get most of the information I want like so: $rss = simplexml_load_file('http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/england/rss.xml'); echo '

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Can I serve RSS in JSON?

I am writing an RSS feed (for fun) and was looking at the spec here. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. Obviously this means that I am not…
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Put the title of the first post in the subject of a MailChimp RSS campaign

I'm using MailChimp and RSS to send emails from my blog. I would like to use the first post title as the subject of the RSS email. When I try to do this, I get the following error: Message Subject* De InterMission Uitdaging van vandaag:…
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Python Feedparser: How can I check for new RSS data?

I'm using the feedparser python library to pull RSS data from a feed continuously. I've written my python code in such a way that I can ask for a single instance of the RSS data. Here's my code currently: import feedparser rssPR =…
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The best PHP lib/class to generate RSS/Atom

I have to produce an RSS/Atom feed in various applications, and I want to know a good library or class which is able to produce both, and which already handles all common problems. For example, the one I used for years does not put the right format…
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How to disable RSS feeds in STS?

I need frequently restart STS. Each time I see loading RSS. Does it possible to disable this feature? Thanks.
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Good resource for the ATOM and RSS specification?

I've been trying to find the "official" documentation for ATOM and RSS so I can program against it. The problem I'm running into is that there are a lot of places that includes parts but never the whole specification. Does anyone know of a good…
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