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Title: RSS would be great
Post by: colonel_colon on April 27, 2005, 10:38:13 am
Any chance of an RSS file for the front page?
I think it would be cool. It would be helpful as I am either checking the page constantly for updates or I totally forget to go here. Just an idea.
Colonel_Colon
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on April 28, 2005, 12:11:09 am
This actually exists, there just is no link for it at the moment:

Default is the last 10 posts:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml

The number and board is configurable such as

So, for the last 25 posts in the Main Forum, it would be:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;board=1;limit=25

The type of feed can be changed as well by adding the following parameters:
Code: [Select]
type=rssRSS2
Code: [Select]
type=rss2[/list]

We currently don't have atom or rdf feeds. Enjoy!
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: MrTroy on May 24, 2005, 04:38:23 pm
But what about the main page. Cause I mainly jump straight to the forum. It'd be nice if the news was actually avaible through RSS as well
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on May 24, 2005, 09:57:41 pm
It took me a bit to figure out what you meant. Yes, the main site http://arcadecontrols.com doesn't have any feeds. In fact, it's all pretty much flat HTML... we have no real CMS that spits out an RSS feed for us. Revamping the main page is in the works, but that is a bit off.
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: ray_slup on May 25, 2005, 09:13:28 pm
I think he wants the news that appears at http://arcadecontrols.com/
to be located here http://forum.arcadecontrols.com
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on May 25, 2005, 11:24:00 pm
Well Kid, which is it?

Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: MrTroy on May 26, 2005, 04:27:59 pm
rss feed of arcadecontrols.com

That way if you have a news feed reader such as bloglines (http://bloglines.com/) it can tell you when the front page has been opened.

I usally open the MSG Board in a new window to avoid that sidebar the whole time. :)
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on May 26, 2005, 04:59:46 pm
OK. Yes, right now we have no RSS feed for the main site, but that is in the works. We all feel your pain on the navigation there. It's very long in the tooth, and John and I greatly desire to rework it.
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: SirPoonga on August 11, 2005, 02:00:02 pm
I was just thinking the same thing because now that the logo on top of the page isn;t linked to the main page I don't go to the main page that often :(
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: SirPoonga on August 11, 2005, 02:08:36 pm
Quote from: sirwoogie on April 28, 2005, 12:11:09 am
The type of feed can be changed as well by adding the following parameters:
    RSS
Code: [Select]
type=rssRSS2
Code: [Select]
type=rss2[/list]
Have you tried this?  doesn't work for me :(
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on August 12, 2005, 03:03:40 pm
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;board=1;limit=25;type=rss
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;board=1;limit=25;type=rss2

That doesn't work? Works for me
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: SirPoonga on August 12, 2005, 04:07:26 pm
hmmm, weird.  firefox won't display the xml.  But rss bandit works fine.   Must have made a typo the first time I put it in bandit.

Anyway, cool.  Setup to grab the last 100 posts every 60 minutes :)  And setup so firefox opens the link to the thread if I click on it.  IE is my default browser at work because part of our software requires it :(
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: MustardTent on September 28, 2005, 01:42:44 pm
Using RSS bandit 1.3.0.29, I'm able to get these feeds (like SirPoonga), but it looks like the feed doesn't always provide the author's name, and even when it does, the "author" is listed by email address, not by their screen name (this is in the columns by which rss bandit sorts the feed data).   

Additionally, each comment either starts with the body, or with:

"Quote from: <username> on <date>", then the body.

Either way, I'm really enjoying the RRS feeds of the forums; I just wanted to point these issues out.
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: sirwoogie on September 28, 2005, 01:51:17 pm
The author field will be set to the nick in the next SMF release that we will be going to soon. As for the body, it's all a matter of how the message text is set. The "Quote from" is actually in the message body, so that's why it shows up in the feed.
Title: Re: RSS would be great
Post by: RetroJames on October 28, 2005, 04:11:14 pm
Quote from: sirwoogie on April 28, 2005, 12:11:09 am
This actually exists, there just is no link for it at the moment:

Default is the last 10 posts:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml

The number and board is configurable such as
  • subrequest: sa=recent
  • board: board number. You can get this by hovering over the links to the boards and include the number after the ','
  • limit: How many recent posts. The max is 255

So, for the last 25 posts in the Main Forum, it would be:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;board=1;limit=25

The type of feed can be changed as well by adding the following parameters:
    RSS
Code: [Select]
type=rssRSS2
Code: [Select]
type=rss2[/list]

We currently don't have atom or rdf feeds. Enjoy!

What are the different options for "subrequest: sa=".  Also, what is the behavior of the value "recent" for this parameter?