I am trying to use certain information from a feed in the directory. More specifically, for my LiveJournal directory I'd like to fetch changing information, like "last updated", "amount of members", "default usericon". All the information is provided for each journal on a page like this:
I have switched on "RSS submissions", but for some reason the feed isn't saved on the "edit link" page. Since I don't know much about handling XML I read a lot of tutorials on writing small external scripts for this, but nothing seems to work
I tried pulling the info from the LiveJournal profile pages, which works fine for individual links, but not for a whole directory. And I'd rather cache the info somewhere or I might get blocked pretty fast :-)
Only feeds of known formats (the popular ones are RSS and atom, but I'm only supporting RSS for now) can be automatically handled and their information automatically displayed, but I could make data from generic XML/RDF feeds like that that one cached and available for display with custom variables based on the feed content, as a $100 customization project.
Note LiveJournal does have RSS feeds: http://ihearticons.livejournal.com/data/rss . But I guess that doesn't have the information you need? Or, I'm not sure their fields with colons in the names will work in WSN...
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I am trying to use certain information from a feed in the directory. More specifically, for my LiveJournal directory I'd like to fetch changing information, like "last updated", "amount of members", "default usericon". All the information is provided for each journal on a page like this:
http://community.livejournal.com/ihearticons/data/foaf
I have switched on "RSS submissions", but for some reason the feed isn't saved on the "edit link" page. Since I don't know much about handling XML I read a lot of tutorials on writing small external scripts for this, but nothing seems to work
I tried pulling the info from the LiveJournal profile pages, which works fine for individual links, but not for a whole directory. And I'd rather cache the info somewhere or I might get blocked pretty fast :-)
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http://community.livejournal.com/ihearticons/data/foaf isn't an RSS feed, that's why it doesn't save. Only RSS feeds are supported.
Only feeds of known formats (the popular ones are RSS and atom, but I'm only supporting RSS for now) can be automatically handled and their information automatically displayed, but I could make data from generic XML/RDF feeds like that that one cached and available for display with custom variables based on the feed content, as a $100 customization project.
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Note LiveJournal does have RSS feeds: http://ihearticons.livejournal.com/data/rss . But I guess that doesn't have the information you need? Or, I'm not sure their fields with colons in the names will work in WSN...
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I will definitely let you know about the customization project. Thanks!