h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm probably the only person in the world who'd be interested in this, but how about an RSS feed based on the links from the front page of the site...

(I've just changed browsers and discovered how useful it is on the BBC news sites)

RSS feeds should be coming soon. We're testing them out at the moment.

Ruddy Heck - not only a quick answer - but the one I was hoping to hear too!



Thanks Jim

Ooh nice!

Here's a handy link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/default.stm - for other dummies like me who don't know what a RSS Feed actually is...

SchrEck Inc.

Traveller in Time still not been through a reboot
"Very interesting, but for what I read of it, it seems hardly more then the conversations and online popups?

The Server essentially generates some XML pages containing links, where the Really Simple Syndicator client program requests these pages on a short interval."

The advantage of RSS is that applications exist to keep track of lots of different feeds, without having to have lots of refreshing windows open. The end result is similar, though. And a site like h2g2 can have multiple feeds for different sets of data if we want.

Combining an RSS feed of my conversations and Thunderbird's Rss reader, I could be having forum reply notifications arriving in my email

Oooooh! It works - how often is the feed updated?

The feeds are simply the data you'd get from a particular web page, so they're updated as often as any page is updated.

So when do we get an all singing all dancing RSS feed of every piece of information on the site then?


(Give 'em an inch and they.... )

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/UserGeneratedContent?v=gcs

With a bit of URL modification, you can have any conversation feed you like!

Whisky's recent conversations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/xml/MP180664&s_xml=rss

Frankie's Journal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/xml/MJ125489?Journal=40257&s_xml=rss

Jim's message centre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/xml/F432&s_xml=rss

Ask h2g2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/xml/F19585&s_xml=rss

Traveller in Time collecting bugs
"Started a thread on the hub as the bugs are site wide, as far as I can see.

< F94020?thread=643341 >

Subjects not always shown ( &lt; . . . )

Only links to first post in a thread, not really helpfull compared to source page. "

Works fine for me, I can only assume you're not using a half decent feed reader.

Cheers Croz - figured it out now...

OK what am I doing wrong?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/xml/month?s_xml=rss doesn't do anything interesting.

Good question - you can pull information off collective's features page...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/xml/features?s_xml=rss

so theoretically I'd have thought you could do the same with Month

I'm getting a few errors where &nbsp; is parsed into the RSS XML. Since XML only allows the &gt; &lt; &amp; entities, you have to either use &#160; or declare the entity (I'm sure you know that - didn't you have a similar problem with h2g2 a few years back?).

Frankie

Is it coming from titles and content?