View Full Version : Any chance of RSS/Atom feeds?
I'm not actively using Alice at the moment, but I keep coming back to see what is developing. Given that I don't know what software is used to generate this site, would it be possible to add RSS or Atom feeds through the main Alice site and each forum? If these are put in meta tags in the head section of the HTML so that Firefox, et al, can see them, that would be excellent. You'd still get the information you get about visits, but it would be elsewhere in your logs.
Thank you.
This is something I've been wanting to (learn) to implement. Once we release our new website, I will start working on things like this.
This is something I've been wanting to (learn) to implement. Once we release our new website, I will start working on things like this.
Can I assume your preferred language is Python (given Alice's dependence on it?) I know how to write the meta tags -- well, all right, where to steal working examples :), but I'm not sure how to generate the feeds, exactly.
A quick spin of Google turns up this:
http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html
which looks usable.
Thank you.
Nope, don't know Python, but then again, I'm not an Alice coder. Usually for tasks like this, I'll learn just enough of whatever language is required to get the job done, and then move on to something else. :)
OK, what language are you most fluent in, and I'll see if I can spot any
resources? If it's something I'm familiar with, I may be able to make a
useful judgment about it's practicality.
I enabled rss syndication from within vBulletin.
I was able to subscribe to it via google reader...it's currently set to update every hour, containing the last 20 posts/threads. Can you test it out?
That's working perfectly for me in Firefox, and the choices of feeds for
the topics is more than I asked for, but great to have. Thank you for
being so responsive.:)