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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 267 |
RSS feeds for releases?
Hi,
Have you ever considered adding RSS feeds for releases etc?
This would make it a lot easiert to find out about new releases with an RSS reader. Also we could use the 'padua' release feed in order to display releases on our website.
Would make things easier because there would only be one central location - CSDb.
/Frank |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 9 |
I was just about to ask the same question. A RSS feed is a great idea. Make several feeds please both for new releases and for all releases entered into the database. (I like to check also the older releases).
I can tell you that pouet.net and scene.org also has rss feeds for new entries, and it's a very fast way to check for scene-news. |
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Perff
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I must admit that untill today I have never heard about RSS. :(
However after a little google'ing on the subject it looks like a great idea - now I just need someone to help me a bit with how this should be implemented. Not how to actually code it, but more how the specific format for the RSS pages should be, and what info to put in them.
Anyone?
Addition to post:
After a little extra google'ing I think I got the big picture about the RSS-format. I'll try to do a "Latest Releases" RSS feed soon, and then you can comment on it, and sugest other feeds.
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Stan
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Registered: Apr 2004
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RSS is a cool feature. I have just started using it recently to download news from some online magazines. |
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Perff
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To start with:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/index.php
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http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/latestreleases.php
Note that this is ONLY the very first beta*2 version!! V0.0001 ;) Any assistance in the meaning of RSS-tags are welcome. |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
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Seems to work fine from here. Thanks!
For those using the Firefox webbrowser I recommend Sage for rss newsreading:
http://sage.mozdev.org/ |
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front243
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From Latest Releases Firefox gives me parse error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /dana/data/noname.c64.org/docs/csdb/rss/latestreleases.php on line 41
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QuasaR
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145 |
Opera 8.01 under Debian gives the same... |
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Perff
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Sorry... Was altering the code a bit. Thought the online version worked, but I guess not. :(
Now it should work again with a little extra info.
Now perhaps someone can help me a bit. My problem is that I would like to write as much info in the description tag for each item (release) as possible, perhaps even with links to download the release etc. Now this would be easiest if I could put some html in this tag, but I have a feeling that this is not allowed according to the rss-standard??
Does anyone know such things?
I'm still very new to this RSS stuff, so any comments on my RSS-code are more than welcome. If my RSS-code looks strange, or contain errors please let me know! |
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front243
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Registered: Jan 2005
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It seems that it is allowed.
Check danish site newz.dk's feed:
http://newz.dk/rss/
They use html in their description and no problems from here.
edit: seems it's xhtml though, makes sense since it's an xml document. |
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Perff
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Thanks for the link. That did the trick. :) Now a tiny bit of html is in the description tag - more will come.
Keep this kind of hints coming. :) |
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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 267 |
I love it - way to go. Now it would be nice to expand this idea to releases. The idea being that I could include the RSS release feed for Padua on our own website, without having to maintain another release database.
Keep up the good work,
/Frank |
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Perff
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Quoting anonymNow it would be nice to expand this idea to releases.
Sure more RSS-feeds will come. Keep an eye on the http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/ feed for available RSS-feed.
But how should the relese feed work? Now just putting a feed out there including ALL the releases in CSDb will be to much. According to the stat on the frontpage there are 16454 releases. I don't think a feed of this size will be very smart neither for the load of the server hosting CSDb or for the RSS-readers around. Any thoughts?
But in general I have plans for feeds for more or less all on the CSDb frontpage. Latest releases which is the first, then latest additions (all types), and latest forumposts etc.
Also adding a few params to some of the feeds to 'filter' on what is wanted in the feed have crossed my mind.
However I will first make these feeds when I'm confidend that the first feed works properly. :) |
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anonym
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 267 |
Perff:
To clarify: I meant releases on a group basis - IE have the feed available with the group ID. So I could include the Padua releases and links to CSDb on www.padua.org, without maintaining a local release list.
/Frank |
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Perff
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Quote: Perff:
To clarify: I meant releases on a group basis - IE have the feed available with the group ID. So I could include the Padua releases and links to CSDb on www.padua.org, without maintaining a local release list.
/Frank
You got it. Still an early version though. Should perhaps put a lot of additional info in the description, but not sure what info, and how the layout should be.
Ideas are welcome. (Especially examples on how the description tag could look like. :) )
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/groupreleases.php?id=<group_id> |
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Perff
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As some of you might have noticed there are now 3 rss feeds (+ the overview feed http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss ), and I'm now quite confident that they are all valid RSS-feeds (at least http://feedvalidator.org says so. :) )
The content of the feeds are also done for now, so now I would like a little feedback.
Both on the current feeds, perhaps something could be improved?
Also ideas for new feeds are welcome. |
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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
Your RSS feeds are very cool!
I am using them in Thunderbird (eMail), and here are some suggestions...
The Sender should contain CSDb (not for group-releases)
It would be nice if the group-releases will be updated, if someone adds comments/votes whatever, that way my eMail-Program warns as soon as K2 gets downvoted ;-)
I have Problems seeing the description (NOT the webpage), but that seems to be a bug in Thunderbird?
Sidenote: C64+RSS Junkies might enjoy the feeds from pouet and remex.kwed.org also
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Sorry for resurrecting a long dead topic, but since Perff asked for more ideas for RSS feeds, here's one:
Comments on a particular release.
Just like with the groupreleases feed, pass the id of the release as a parameter, and get a feed including comments on that particular release. It would make it much more convenient to follow comments on new big releases, and more importantly, catching new comments on old releases. |
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Perff
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There was actually a semi-completed hidden feature in that feed. I guess I started on it at some point, and forgot about it again. :)
I finished it quickly, and added the info here:
http://csdb.dk/rss/availablefeeds.php
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Whoa!
"God is very quick these days." -- Captain Blackadder
Thanks a lot! :-)
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
Would it be possible to modify the comments feed to contain the handle of the scener making the comment in the title?
As it is, every item in the feed has the same title, "Review for [Release]". Something like "Comment by [Handle]" would be more useful, I think. |
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Perff
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That wasn't a part of the very quick fix - but I guess it's possible. ;)
As said, most of the code was already there, so I didn't actually look much into it.
I'll see if I can find a bit more time, and look into it.
I agree that the same title for all entries is a bit silly, but I guess the proper place for who wrote the comment is in the author tag!?
well.. |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
I agree that the handle belongs in the author field, but given that comments do not have their own associated title, only a body text, it would be appropriate to include the handle in the item title as well. It is the only piece of information I can think of that would be useful for looking up a specific comment in a list of many.
Maybe it would also be useful to include the first line of the comment text itself after the handle, for example:
"[Handle]: [First line of comment text]"
The name of the release itself is already part of the RSS channel title, so it's redundant to include it in the item title as well.
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Codey
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 79 |
i've been viewing csdb releases and posts in google reader forever...
CSDb - Latest Forum posts
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/latestforumposts.php
CSDb - Latest Releases
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/latestreleases.php |
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Perplex
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 255 |
As have I, and those two feeds work great just the way they are. :)
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639 |
Is there a latest comments RSS, yet? |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
@Linus: there is... i think you've missed this link.
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/rss/ |
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639 |
Seems so ... :) Thanks! |
