hacking rss and atom (2005)

[...]... major competing feed formats in Atom and RSS and there are more than a halfdozen versions and variants of RSS, along with a slew of Atom draft specifications as its development progresses And then there are all the other details to consider—such as what and how much to put into feeds, how to deliver feeds most efficiently, how to parse all these formats, and how to handle feed data once you have it... hood, and how you can actually do some of the things promised earlier Taking a Crash Course in RSS and Atom Feeds If you’re already familiar with all the basics of RSS and Atom feeds, you can skip ahead to the section “Gathering Tools” later in this chapter But, just in case you need to be brought up to speed, this section takes a quick tour of feed consumers, feed producers, and the basics of feed anatomy... Testing the htmlmetalib Module Generating Atom Feeds from HTML Content Testing the Atom Feed Generator Generating RSS Feeds from HTML Content Testing the RSS Feed Generator Testing and Validating Feeds Checking Out Other Options Looking at atomfeed Looking at PyRSS2Gen Looking at Blosxom and PyBlosxom Looking at WordPress ... into your hands, becoming a real personal tool In particular, Radio comes not only with publishing tools to create a blog and associated RSS feeds, but a full development environment with its own scripting language and data storage, allowing the user-turned-hacker to reach into the tool to customize and extend the aggregator and its workings After its first few public releases, Radio UserLand was quickly... long as you could handle and would keep you constantly up to date with the latest feed items So, the number of subscribed feeds you could handle was limited only by how large a page your browser could load and your ability to skim, scan, and read it Three-Pane Aggregators This family of feed aggregators builds upon what I consider to be one of the chief advances of Radio UserLand and friends: feeds... developers and tinkerers, you’ll see an even greater diversity of variations and experiments with how to gather and present feed items You can already find Web-based aggregators styled after Web email services, other applications with a mix of aggregation styles, and still more experimenting with novel ways of organizing and presenting feed items (see Figure 1-9 and Figure 1-10) In addition, the content and. .. preferences and list of feed subscriptions, to be served up to a Web browser of choice from its own private Web server (see Figure 1-4) FIGURE 1-3: The Radio UserLand server status window running on Mac OS X FIGURE 1-4: The Radio UserLand news aggregator in a Firefox browser 7 8 Part I — Consuming Feeds The Radio UserLand application stays running in the background and about once an hour it fetches and processes... Content Feeds Getting Ready to Hack chapter W hat are RSS and Atom feeds? If you’re reading this, it’s pretty likely you’ve already seen links to feeds (things such as “Syndicate this Site” or the ubiquitous orange -and- white RSS buttons) starting to pop up on all of your favorite sites In fact, you might already have secured a feed reader or aggregator and stopped visiting most of your favorite sites... gathering dust since you stopped clicking through them every day And, if you’re like some feed addicts, you’re keeping track of what’s new from more Web sites and news sources than you ever have before, or even thought possible If you’re a voracious infovore like me and this story doesn’t sound familiar, you’re in for a treat RSS and Atom feeds—collectively known as syndication feeds—are behind one... there focused on the myriad subtleties involved in working with RSS and Atom feeds Instead, what you’ll find here is that syndication feeds are the host of the party, but you’ll be spending most of your time with the guests And, because this is a book about hacking feeds, you’ll get the chance to experiment with combinations of technology and tools, leaving plenty of room for further tinkering The code . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Hacking RSS and Atom Leslie M. Orchard 01_597582_ffirs.qxd 8/11/05 5:14 PM Page i 01_597582_ffirs.qxd 8/11/05 5:14 PM Page iv Hacking RSS and Atom Leslie M. Orchard 01_597582_ffirs.qxd. feed formats in Atom and RSS and there are more than a half- dozen versions and variants of RSS, along with a slew of Atom draft specifications as its devel- opment progresses. And then there. the Wiley logo and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affiliates, in the United States and other countries, and may not be used