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eHam Forums => Site Talk => Topic started by: K2CMH on August 27, 2013, 09:13:13 AM
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Does this forum software support RSS feeds so that one can use an RSS reader to pull down new posts instead of having to visit each forum separately and check for new posts? QRZ.COM has an RSS feature, but you have to subscribe to a feed for each forum, which is certainly better than nothing.
Thanks,
Carlton
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Does this forum software support RSS feeds so that one can use an RSS reader to pull down new posts instead of having to visit each forum separately and check for new posts.
Yes.
The 5 most recent posts:
www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml
The 20 most recent posts:
www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;limit=20
The 10 most recent posts on 'Elmers'
www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;board=12;limit=10
You can find more guidance here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0
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Does this forum software support RSS feeds so that one can use an RSS reader to pull down new posts instead of having to visit each forum separately and check for new posts? QRZ.COM has an RSS feature, but you have to subscribe to a feed for each forum, which is certainly better than nothing.
This forum uses "Simple Machines Forum" which supports various versions of XML feeds, including Atom and RSS.
Over at the Simple Machines Wiki you'll find more information how to build a query URL to get the posts of the sub-forums you like: http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/XML_feeds
For example, I am using the following query with my feed reader (rss2email) to get the latest posts from some boards (7, 8, 9, 11, 20, 27). Since my rss2email script is running once a hour, I figured that querying 40 posts should be more than enough to catch the last hour's activity, without querying too much duplicate posts and just increasing database load.
http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;sa=recent;boards=7,8,9,11,20,27;limit=40
There's a downside that in the current configuration only the first 255 characters of each forum post are available in the feeds.
73
Fabian
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Thank you both for the information, very helpful!
Carlton
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And thanks to you, Carlton, for asking. I had no idea this was possible, but I'm looking forward to trying it! 73! --ken
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These changes are terrible. The site now looks like something out of the 1990's. Count me in with the majority, HATE IT.
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It's just fine, in my opinion. The print is easy to read. I waded through all the above, dint understand a word of it so will just live without notifications until some one comes up with SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS that don't take two days to decipher! Thanks for all the inputs anyway! By the way, the first three links above were 404 error....
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These changes are terrible. The site now looks like something out of the 1990's. Count me in with the majority, HATE IT.
Is that why you resurrected a 6 year old thread instead of adding a new one or posting in a current one?
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It seems that after the upgrade, all of the previous RSS feeds that worked are no longer working.
Can the admins please make sure the RSS option is turned on and post the corrected URLs for the feeds?
The closest thing I can come up with is this:
https://www.eham.net/community/smf/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;limit=255;board=1
However, that is not a raw feed, it still has all the borders, stuff on the left column, etc, so the RSS readers are rejecting it as not a valid feed.
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This may also be helpful:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eham.net%2Fforum%2Fview%3Fid%3Dindex.php%253ftype%3Drss%3Baction%3D.xml%3Blimit%3D255%3Bboard%3D1
That is a link to an RSS validator passing in one of the RSS feed URLS. You will see that it fails validation.