rss feed - beta testing [closed]

TEAM LANDCRUISER · Post by **TEAM LANDCRUISER** » 18 June 04 4:20 pm

Yes stick with version 1. I have version 2 and it has limits but works well.

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 18 June 04 4:32 pm

version 1.1 is still available HERE

Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 18 June 04 10:53 pm

I've been using rssreader for some time.

I was using a different one which was very good, but it seems to have stopped which is a shame.

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 19 June 04 11:38 am

I have Awasu ver 1.1 but on adding the feed I get this error
"XML parse failed (7:L20/C3): mismatched tag"

what does that mean??

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 19 June 04 12:54 pm

we don't know without more information
we've installed awasu v1.1 and can get the australian and wa feeds without an error

if you get the error again, awasu has a function to view the feed
right-click the feed name and select "view last feed" then copy and paste that into a PM to us and we'll take a look

TEAM LANDCRUISER · Post by **TEAM LANDCRUISER** » 21 June 04 12:39 am

I haven't recieved a recent update since 17th June is the feed still working OK?

Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 21 June 04 10:05 am

Code: Select all

Sorry
This feed does not validate.

Feeds should not be served with the 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' media type [help]


line 2, column 0: Undefined root element: html [help]

<html>
line 21, column 3: XML Parsing error: <unknown>:21:3: mismatched tag [help]

	</head>  ^

http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url= ... com.au/rss

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 21 June 04 10:17 am

team landcruiser:

we forgot to say that we've stopped the cache updates emails at the moment because they would not have been accurate. we plan on rewriting them in the next few days.

reasons for the change:

previously we had a single feed from roblisa. cache updates were relatively simple: just keep a track of what changed, format it in an email and send it.

when we introduced the mobile geocaching australia sub-site, we needed more information that roblisa could give, so we developed other feeds to flesh out the database.

having multiple feeds meant that our update email code wouldn't work, because it only sent out changes detected by comparing the incoming roblisa feed with the database. if the database had already been updated by another feed, it would not be included in the email.

so why not just send out an email as caches get updates by whichever feed? that would mean multiple emails per day, which we didn't want to bombard people with.

so:

for daily updates, we are re-writing the update email to aggregate the changes across the different feeds and send out a single daily digest-stype email similar to the previous one.

for more frequent updates, we have written the RSS feed. there are a few subtle, err, features, which are causing the occasional old cache to appear and new caches not to appear. it has to do with feeding caches based on "hidden by" date. as we know from the cache which has been sitting on the top of the NSW list for ages, people can put in whatever hidden date they want. so we will be changing the feed to display new caches posted to geocaching.com.au as opposed to relying on hidden date. this will free up the RSS feed for new caches

red dwarf:
that's the index page designed for browsers. open that in a browser and it displays the feeds for your RSS client. we tried to validate other feeds with that site but it doesn't seem to work. another validator seems to work fine: http://rss.scripting.com/?url=http%3A%2 ... %2Fnsw.rss

Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 21 June 04 10:23 am

My bad

I thought there was one feed and that was it, but it's a link to a list of feeds

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 23 June 04 6:09 pm

Thanks i!, works a treat.

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 24 June 04 12:48 am

Yes thanks guys it's working well. I installed awasu ver1.1. Great stuff.

I'm even reading slashdot, does that make me a geek?

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 24 June 04 10:34 pm

you're welcome

1. to the person in SA who is polling the feed every 10 minutes. we promise that there will be nothing different every 10 minutes of the day and night. please reset your feed to every hour or longer.

2. what else should we be doing with the RSS feeds? eg we could lay out the page a bit better. we could have a cache log feed (aka the Ginger Loon feed) which would be like watching all the caches in an area. we could have feeds based on location, eg give me all new caches/cache logs within 50 km of a certain point. etc. thoughts?

cache updates are returning in the next coupla days

Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 25 June 04 9:28 am

When I added the feed for QLD to my rssreader, it always downloaded 20 caches to display even if I had already viewed them all, so if I scrolled down the page, I saw the same caches listed multiple times. For some reason, it doesn't just show NEW caches.

Two Goth Geeks · Post by **Two Goth Geeks** » 25 June 04 9:29 am

based on location would be fantastic