Solve : RSS feeds?

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Answer» Any interesting RSS news feeds out there? So far I've got 3 news channels, one of them being the BBC. The other being two national news agencies.What exactly is an RSS feed? Is it a scrolling bar across the browser with the latest data about whatever you're RRSing? Alan <>< A lot of websites use them so that you can browse through their (Daily) articles without actually having to visit the website. Internet Explorer is not RSS capable (What else is new? ), so if you're not a firefox user you might not know it at all. Ouch RSS guide Quote What is RSS? RSS is a method by which you can keep up to date with all your favourite websites, blogs and news sources easily. Rather than go to every site you like to see whether it has been updated, wouldn't it be cool to have the new headlines sent to you as soon as new entries or stories appear? Well, RSS can help you with this - and it certainly saves a lot of clicking around. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's rather clever, and it KEEPS you up to date with minimum hassle. When you see the phrase 'RSS feed', think of it as 'headlines that come to me'. Not all websites provide RSS feeds, but it is growing in popularity. Other sites with RSS include our own BBC News site, The Guardian, most weblogs, Wired and MANY others. Sometimes you might see RSS feeds referred to as 'news feeds', 'feed', 'XML' or 'Atom' ... but they all do the same thing. Quote Internet Explorer is not RSS capable (What else is new? ), so if you're not a firefox user you might not know it at all. Absolutely not true. IE definitely will display pages with RSS content. I created a page with nothing but a web feed to illustrate the point: http://home.earthlink.net/~dderolph/ELCAwebfeed.htm. I'm viewing it in IE right now. It came from here: http://www.elca.org/webfeeds/default.aspQuote Absolutely not true. IE definitely will display pages with RSS content. I created a page with nothing but a web feed to illustrate the point: http://home.earthlink.net/~dderolph/ELCAwebfeed.htm. I'm viewing it in IE right now. It came from here: http://www.elca.org/webfeeds/default.asp That is NOT RSS feed. An RSS feed (or an XML feed) ends with an extension rss or xml. The main feature of a RSS or XML feed is to deliver updated contents (articles, blog posts, news posts etc) automatically. And when you are going to view it with browsers, the updated page will automatically enter in your feed. Your page(click here) does not contain any RSS or XML button. So where from you get this page(click here)? And this page ends with an extension .htm . Just go to thefollowing page http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?page=newsfeed and in your internet explorer when you click on the xml button (see the actual location for this button ends with .xml and not htm) will you get code like this? Code: [Select] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> - <rss version="0.91"> - <channel> <copyright>Copyright 2006 Medical News Today</copyright> <description>Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.</description> <link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com</link> <title>Health News from Medical News Today</title> <webMaster>[emailprotected]</webMaster> <managingEditor>[emailprotected]</managingEditor> <language>en-us</language> - <item> <title>Australian Neuroscientists Forge Closer Ties With Their Colleagues In China</title> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:00 PDT</pubDate> <link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53744&nfid=rssfeeds</link> <description>QUEENSLAND Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists from The University of Queensland will visit Shanghai this week to formalise a growing relationship between QBI and the Chinese Academy of Science,Institute of Neuroscience (ION). [click link for full article]</description> </item> Well, its not actually the RSS feed, its only the code for the feed. Now you go to opera browser (or firefox, PROVIDED the right extension for showing feed re installed in firefox), and click on the same XML button, you will get the message: "Do you want to subscribe to such and such feed??" When you click "yes", the feed is downloaded. When i click on the xml button for the following feed (in opera browser) http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.xml many things (i call these as FEED ENTRIES) were downloaded: say 1) Prescription Drug Prices Vary By Neighborhood In New York City, According To A City Council Report 2) New Wound Dressing May Lead To Maggot Therapy Without The Maggots 3) Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Worry Europeans and more... Each of the above are titles of the corresponding feed entry. An XML feed entry consists of 3 parts TITLE (THE TITLE THAT SHOWS) DESCRIPTION (THE SHORT SUMMARY) LINK (THE URL FOR THE PAGE) So based on the title of the feed entry,you decide whether you want to read it or not. then you read its description ( and it is a short summary of the entire posts). If the description attracts you then you click the corresponding URL. When any new post is inserted in that feed (by the feed owner), he adjusts his feed code accrordingly so that new post automatically enters your feed, in your browser, as new feed entry. Do you have any process implemented in this page to automatically insert latest post (or html pages). It can't, because this page ENDS WITH the extension .htm. A standard feed code looks like this: <item> <title>Australian Neuroscientists Forge Closer Ties With Their Colleagues In China</title> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:00 PDT</pubDate> <link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53744&nfid=rssfeeds</link> <description>Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists from The University of Queensland will visit Shanghai this week to formalise a growing relationship between QBI and the Chinese Academy of Science,Institute of Neuroscience (ION). [click link for full article]</description> </item> If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need a feed reader. My choice is Google reader, because it can read both RSS and Atom feeds. To use Google reader, you need a google account, which you can get from here. shouvik, thanks for that lengthy explanation. I believe I now know that the feed I mentioned is actually a javascript feed. As you said, it is not an RSS news feed. The new IE 7 is RSS capable. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060629ie7wv/manifest.xmlthe new IE 7 is RSS capable i think! [edit]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Sorry, Must've missed that!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[/edit]

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Any interesting RSS news feeds out there?

So far I've got 3 news channels, one of them being the BBC. The other being two national news agencies.What exactly is an RSS feed? Is it a scrolling bar across the browser with the latest data about whatever you're RRSing?

Alan <>< A lot of websites use them so that you can browse through their (Daily) articles without actually having to visit the website.

Internet Explorer is not RSS capable (What else is new? ), so if you're not a firefox user you might not know it at all.

Ouch RSS guide

Quote

What is RSS?

RSS is a method by which you can keep up to date with all your favourite websites, blogs and news sources easily. Rather than go to every site you like to see whether it has been updated, wouldn't it be cool to have the new headlines sent to you as soon as new entries or stories appear? Well, RSS can help you with this - and it certainly saves a lot of clicking around.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's rather clever, and it KEEPS you up to date with minimum hassle. When you see the phrase 'RSS feed', think of it as 'headlines that come to me'.

Not all websites provide RSS feeds, but it is growing in popularity. Other sites with RSS include our own BBC News site, The Guardian, most weblogs, Wired and MANY others.

Sometimes you might see RSS feeds referred to as 'news feeds', 'feed', 'XML' or 'Atom' ... but they all do the same thing.

Quote

Internet Explorer is not RSS capable (What else is new? ), so if you're not a firefox user you might not know it at all.

Absolutely not true. IE definitely will display pages with RSS content. I created a page with nothing but a web feed to illustrate the point: http://home.earthlink.net/~dderolph/ELCAwebfeed.htm. I'm viewing it in IE right now.

It came from here: http://www.elca.org/webfeeds/default.aspQuote

Absolutely not true. IE definitely will display pages with RSS content. I created a page with nothing but a web feed to illustrate the point: http://home.earthlink.net/~dderolph/ELCAwebfeed.htm. I'm viewing it in IE right now.

It came from here: http://www.elca.org/webfeeds/default.asp

That is NOT RSS feed. An RSS feed (or an XML feed) ends with an extension
rss or xml. The main feature of a RSS or XML feed is to deliver updated contents (articles, blog posts, news posts etc) automatically. And when you are going to view it with browsers, the updated page will automatically enter
in your feed.

Your page(click here) does not contain any RSS or XML button. So where from you get this page(click here)? And this page ends with an extension .htm .

Just go to thefollowing page
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?page=newsfeed

and in your internet explorer when you click on the xml button (see the actual location for this button ends with .xml and not htm) will you get code like this?

Code: [Select]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <rss version="0.91">
- <channel>
<copyright>Copyright 2006 Medical News Today</copyright>
<description>Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.</description>
<link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com</link>
<title>Health News from Medical News Today</title>
<webMaster>[emailprotected]</webMaster>
<managingEditor>[emailprotected]</managingEditor>
<language>en-us</language>
- <item>
<title>Australian Neuroscientists Forge Closer Ties With Their Colleagues In China</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53744&nfid=rssfeeds</link>
<description>QUEENSLAND Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists from The University of Queensland will visit Shanghai this week to formalise a growing relationship between QBI and the Chinese Academy of Science,Institute of Neuroscience (ION). [click link for full article]</description>
</item>

Well, its not actually the RSS feed, its only the code for the feed.

Now you go to opera browser (or firefox, PROVIDED the right extension for showing feed re installed in firefox), and click on the same XML button, you will get the message:

"Do you want to subscribe to such and such feed??"

When you click "yes", the feed is downloaded.

When i click on the xml button for the following feed (in opera browser)

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.xml

many things (i call these as FEED ENTRIES) were downloaded:

say

1) Prescription Drug Prices Vary By Neighborhood In New York City, According To A City Council Report

2) New Wound Dressing May Lead To Maggot Therapy Without The Maggots

3) Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Worry Europeans

and more...

Each of the above are titles of the corresponding feed entry.

An XML feed entry consists of 3 parts

TITLE (THE TITLE THAT SHOWS)
DESCRIPTION (THE SHORT SUMMARY)
LINK (THE URL FOR THE PAGE)

So based on the title of the feed entry,you decide whether you want to read
it or not. then you read its description ( and it is a short summary of the entire posts). If the description attracts you then you click the corresponding URL.

When any new post is inserted in that feed (by the feed owner), he adjusts his feed code accrordingly so that new post automatically enters your feed, in your browser, as new feed entry.

Do you have any process implemented in this page to automatically insert latest post (or html pages). It can't, because this page ENDS WITH the extension .htm.

A standard feed code looks like this:

<item>
<title>Australian Neuroscientists Forge Closer Ties With Their Colleagues In China</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
<link>http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53744&nfid=rssfeeds</link>
<description>Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists from The University of Queensland will visit Shanghai this week to formalise a growing relationship between QBI and the Chinese Academy of Science,Institute of Neuroscience (ION). [click link for full article]</description>
</item>

If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need a feed reader. My choice is Google reader, because it can read both RSS and Atom feeds.

To use Google reader, you need a google account, which you can get from here.

shouvik, thanks for that lengthy explanation. I believe I now know that the feed I mentioned is actually a javascript feed. As you said, it is not an RSS news feed. The new IE 7 is RSS capable.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060629ie7wv/manifest.xmlthe new IE 7 is RSS capable i think!

[edit]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Sorry, Must've missed that!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[/edit]

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