Topic based RSS

[Kryptyx]

So I'm going to be writing a script to scrape this site for links in a particular topic. It would be awesome if there was an RSS feed per topic. I know there is one based on the forum but not per topic. Any plans to add this? It would make scraping the pages a lot easier.

[givingtnt]

whats an rss feed again ?

[colonel_mortis]

Not possible, and nowhere near widely useful enough to justify us hacking it in.

[Kryptyx]

3 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

Not possible, and nowhere near widely useful enough to justify us hacking it in.

IPB doesn't have a mod to do this already?

[colonel_mortis]

6 minutes ago, Kryptyx said:

IPB doesn't have a mod to do this already?

No. It's not something that many people would ever use, and the people that would use it would only do so very rarely. RSS feeds are designed so that you give a feed URL to a program, and it then updates you when something happens - they shouldn't need to be enumerable. What you're asking for is an XML API, which isn't available. Just scrape the HTML - each post is contained within

<div data-role="commentContent" itemprop="text" class="ipsType_normal ipsType_richText ipsContained" data-controller="core.front.core.lightboxedImages">
  ...
</div>

Yes, it's more complicated than XML, but it's still simpler than us adding an entire API for it.

[Kryptyx]

Just now, colonel_mortis said:

No. It's not something that many people would ever use, and the people that would use it would only do so very rarely. RSS feeds are designed so that you give a feed URL to a program, and it then updates you when something happens - they shouldn't need to be enumerable. What you're asking for is an XML API, which isn't available. Just scrape the HTML - each post is contained within

<div data-role="commentContent" itemprop="text" class="ipsType_normal ipsType_richText ipsContained" data-controller="core.front.core.lightboxedImages">
  ...
</div>

Yes, it's more complicated than XML, but it's still simpler than us adding an entire API for it.

Yeah that's simple enough. I was just trying to see if there was something I could use to go off of a little easier. The plan is to scrape the 3DMark thread for 3DMark links and then scrape those results and update the Google spreadsheet automatically.

[HPWebcamAble]

On 3/3/2016 at 1:57 PM, givingtnt said:

whats an rss feed again ?

Basically, its a website's content in plain text. Usually used with blogs.

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[LogicalDrm]

7 hours ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Basically, its a website's content in plain text. Usually used with blogs.

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Actually its best in use when you follow multiple news sites and want to read headline or first segment to know if its worth reading as full.