Paddy Rolling Stone RSS feed

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:21 pm**

Just for fun I've abused a screen-scraper service and turned the Paddy Rolling Stone forum into a RSS feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_ ... render=rss . You can now follow the PRS forum in your favorite RSS aggregator (Safari, MSIE, Google, Firefox, etc) right along side Medusa's feed ( generate_feed.php?content=posts&global=1 ).

Enjoy!

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:49 pm**

I'm so fecking IT ignorant, I haven't a clue what you are on about! :cry:

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:28 pm**

DzM wrote:Just for fun I've abused a screen-scraper service and turned the Paddy Rolling Stone forum into a RSS feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_ ... render=rss . You can now follow the PRS forum in your favorite RSS aggregator (Safari, MSIE, Google, Firefox, etc) right along side Medusa's feed ( generate_feed.php?content=posts&global=1 ).

Enjoy!

Out of necessity; I have made a ledged and braced gate for the side of my house out of tongue and groove wooden planks. I've jigsawed the top of it arched shaped, used a coountersink drill bit, No 8 Pozi screws and filler to hide the screws, sanded smooth; and used one coat of wood presever and three coats of Ronseal Exterior Woodstain (mahogany) to finish. I've used 8 inch galvanized scotch tee hinges to hang it and finished with a suffolk latch.

You can't enjoy it from where you are but you would enjoy it if you could.

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:47 pm**

soulfinger wrote:
DzM wrote:Just for fun I've abused a screen-scraper service and turned the Paddy Rolling Stone forum into a RSS feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_ ... render=rss . You can now follow the PRS forum in your favorite RSS aggregator (Safari, MSIE, Google, Firefox, etc) right along side Medusa's feed ( http://www.pogues.com/forum/generate_fe ... s&global=1 ).

Enjoy!

Out of necessity; I have made a ledged and braced gate for the side of my house out of tongue and groove wooden planks. I've jigsawed the top of it arched shaped, used a coountersink drill bit, No 8 Pozi screws and filler to hide the screws, sanded smooth; and used one coat of wood presever and three coats of Ronseal Exterior Woodstain (mahogany) to finish. I've used 8 inch galvanized scotch tee hinges to hang it and finished with a suffolk latch.

You can't enjoy it from where you are but you would enjoy it if you could.

Is that what DZM meant? OK!

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:37 pm**

You guys could, I dunno, just click on the URLs and see what happens.

But OK - Just for fun...

Site syndication is a way of taking data from a web page and exporting it in a un-formatted standardized way that can easily be consumed byt OTHER software that understands the data format (aka "shema"). Many sites now offer syndication of their content in some way, and the goal is often to drive visits back to their real page. The kind of content typically syndicated is article updates, news updates, podcast updates, etc.

An aggregator is software that understands the schema that the feed is presented in, and checks with the publisher on a regular schedule to see if there are updates. If an update is received then the aggregator notifies the user of the new content. Imagine it as though you had an assistant whose job was, once an hour, to ring all your favorite restaurants and ask for a copy of their menus. If any new dish suddenly appeared on one of the menus the assistant would then tell you "the kabob place on the corner has a new inedible pile of mush in an orange-and-coconut sauce."

There are many aggregators out there in the wild. Some of them run on your computer, some are web sites (MSIE, Firefox, Safari, Google Reader, etc). Which one you use it up to you.

RSS is an acronym that means "Really Simple Syndication." It's pretty wide used. The other popular standard is ATOM. You don't need to know this though. This is invisible behind-the-scenes trivia.

The links in my first post point you to syndication URLs for PRS forum and for Medusa. Those URLs would allow you to read (though not to post) the posts from either forum inside your favorite aggregator.

Also - Your blinker fluid is low.

**Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:14 pm**

DzM wrote:You guys could, I dunno, just click on the URLs and see what happens.

But OK - Just for fun...

Site syndication is a way of taking data from a web page and exporting it in a un-formatted standardized way that can easily be consumed byt OTHER software that understands the data format (aka "shema"). Many sites now offer syndication of their content in some way, and the goal is often to drive visits back to their real page. The kind of content typically syndicated is article updates, news updates, podcast updates, etc.

An aggregator is software that understands the schema that the feed is presented in, and checks with the publisher on a regular schedule to see if there are updates. If an update is received then the aggregator notifies the user of the new content. Imagine it as though you had an assistant whose job was, once an hour, to ring all your favorite restaurants and ask for a copy of their menus. If any new dish suddenly appeared on one of the menus the assistant would then tell you "the kabob place on the corner has a new inedible pile of mush in an orange-and-coconut sauce."

There are many aggregators out there in the wild. Some of them run on your computer, some are web sites (MSIE, Firefox, Safari, Google Reader, etc). Which one you use it up to you.

RSS is an acronym that means "Really Simple Syndication." It's pretty wide used. The other popular standard is ATOM. You don't need to know this though. This is invisible behind-the-scenes trivia.

The links in my first post point you to syndication URLs for PRS forum and for Medusa. Those URLs would allow you to read (though not to post) the posts from either forum inside your favorite aggregator.

Also - Your blinker fluid is low.

Ehhh, i'll just get me coat

**Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:35 am**

DzM wrote:Also - Your blinker fluid is low.

Ah, that's why the damn computer's running so slow this morning. I'll just top it up. Where do you put it in?

**Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:38 pm**

DzM wrote:You guys could, I dunno, just click on the URLs and see what happens.

Isn't that a major cause of teenage pregnancy?

**Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:38 am**

DzM wrote:...Imagine it as though you had an assistant whose job was, once an hour, to ring all your favorite restaurants and ask for a copy of their menus...

<raises hand> i don't eat out that often. will these "atomic rss"s still work for me? :shock:

**Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:09 pm**

DzM,

Very slick - the 'latest posts from 'The Medusa Fora' board' page loads 'right quick' - a lot faster than the regular forum pages.
I'm gonna subscribe to everything I can think of. RSS for everyone!

Not to be too demanding- (you know when someone says that - they're gonna want something...), but the posters' name does not show up in the RSS feed. Is this a bug or a feature?

**Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:12 pm**

Cdn Steve wrote:Not to be too demanding- (you know when someone says that - they're gonna want something...), but the posters' name does not show up in the RSS feed. Is this a bug or a feature?

It's your RSS aggregator being finicky about what it wants to display. It's there in the raw data tagged as "Creator":

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