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New Cool Journal RSS Feeds at use Perl;

pudge on 2004-11-16T23:32:25

OK, so now journal RSS feeds should contain full text of journals with HTML. Yay. Of the form http://use.perl.org/user/pudge/journal/rss>.
And bonus, now you can get an RSS feed of your friends' journals (or anyone else's friends). Of the form http://use.perl.org/user/pudge/journal/friends/rss>.
The RSS links are in the <HEAD> of the journal pages (on my page you get the above links, on your page you get it with your links).

Lemme know if you have any problems.

Usability nit

rafael on 2004-11-17T08:40:45

The friends RSS is great, but could we have the name of the poster somewhere else than in the link URL ? e.g. in the , that would be great.

Re:Usability nit

Purdy on 2004-11-17T14:21:52

Ditto - mod parent up! ;)

Re:Usability nit

Purdy on 2004-11-17T19:18:10

Also, what would be cool is a (#) after the title to show the current number of responses.

btw, i use Firefox's live bookmarks, which doesn't handle all that fancy dc:creator stuff. I doubt they'll get around to letting us format live bookmark titles via format() strings (i.e. "%title (%dc.creator)").

Re:Usability nit

pudge on 2004-11-17T14:57:16

You do. It's where the name belongs: in the dc:creator field.

Re:Usability nit

rafael on 2004-11-17T16:02:43

Oh, so I'll have to send a patch to the author of my RSS reader ? (I'm using snownews currently, and it doesn't feel concerned with dc:creator.)

(BTW I meant <title> in my previous comment, slash ate my homework :)

Re:Usability nit

pudge on 2004-11-17T17:17:18

Yes, whack him around! (FWIW, NetNewsWire shows creator, but I think only for the pay version, not the Lite version.)

Excellent!

Dom2 on 2004-11-17T10:38:15

These are really good; they're a big improvement over the previous set.

Any chance that comments could get an RSS feed? That's the only use case that keeps me in the browser right now.

Thanks,
-Dom

Problems with NetNewsWire

melo on 2004-11-17T11:23:47

Hmms.. I get some use perl journals via Planet Perl, and they wont show up correctly. It seems Planet Perl problem, but just a heads up.

By the way, do you plan to do this for the all-post feed?

I'm using http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=top&content_type=rss I got somewhere.

Maybe I'm using the wrong URL.

Thanks!

Re:Problems with NetNewsWire

rjbs on 2004-11-17T17:32:09

I would really, really love for this to work with the all-journals feed. I would buy pudge some beers.

Re:Problems with NetNewsWire

brian_d_foy on 2004-11-17T17:47:14

I would stop making fun of Pudge's choice of baseball teams if we could get an all-journals feed. I don't have any friends because I read all the journal entries (even the ones by TorgoX). Right now I have my own journal reader, but I'd sure like to get rid of it so everything shows up in NetNewsWire :)

Hmm...

Purdy on 2004-11-17T19:21:58

Also, what would be cool is a (#) after the title to show the current number of responses.

btw, i use Firefox's live bookmarks, which doesn't handle all that fancy dc:creator stuff. I doubt they'll get around to letting us format live bookmark titles via format() strings (i.e. "%title (%dc.creator)").

[NOTE: My previous post didn't take -- #36095?]

All Journals Feed

jbisbee on 2004-11-17T20:24:37

Yep a all-journals feed would be perfect (that links to to the individual journal entry
http://use.perl.org/user/pudge/journal/21884
rather than the just the user's journal
http://use.perl.org/user/pudge/journal/
There are three main reasons for this
  1. The biggest complaint is that the URL isn't unique and the same URL could appear in the feed multiple times.
  2. Another reason is that when you follow an older link/headline combination, you may be presented with a newer journal entry and then you have to scroll down and find the entry you want.
  3. Finally, you don't instantly get to see the comments along with the journal entry when you visit the page.

This URL works best

http://use.perl.org/search.pl?tid=&query=&author=&op=journals&content_type=r ss
but because it lists all journals, it kinda sucks that you don't have the journal author's name in the headline.
New Cool Journal RSS Feeds at use Perl; (Tuesday November 16, @06:32PM)
Actually, while writing this comment, I whipped together XML::RSS::Headline::UsePerlJournals, that takes the search.pl rss output and removes the date and adds the id back in
[pudge] New Cool Journal RSS Feeds at use Perl;
and you get the actual URL to journal entry as well.

Re:All Journals Feed

Purdy on 2004-11-17T21:44:35

Gotta feed URL for us? ;)

Re:All Journals Feed

jbisbee on 2004-11-18T03:05:31

Sure, #news on irc.perl.org and http://biz.dyndns.org/rssbot/.