Am I missing something about WF?

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Does WF have an RSS feed for each forum? I can't find any links. Didn't know if I was missing it or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
    Michael,

    Not that I am aware of.

    And if you are going to use the content from this forum, you should ask permission from Allen before you do. This isn't a public forum - it is a privately owned forum. That means that the posts are His (could also include the poster - not sure about this part though), and not for public use.

    Just a heads up ...
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  • Profile picture of the author blur
    It would be nice to get an rss feed of new posts in my RSS reader so I can scan the list and see what interests me.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by blur View Post

      It would be nice to get an rss feed of new posts in my RSS reader so I can scan the list and see what interests me.
      The trouble is, there are way too many people out there who believe that anything available via RSS is public domain.

      If the WF had a public RSS feed, how long do you think it would take for a host of autoblogs to show up with scraped WF content? Hint: the over/under is in minutes.
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      • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
        Originally Posted by mmurtha View Post

        Michael,

        Not that I am aware of.

        And if you are going to use the content from this forum, you should ask permission from Allen before you do. This isn't a public forum - it is a privately owned forum. That means that the posts are His (could also include the poster - not sure about this part though), and not for public use.

        Just a heads up ...
        Yeah thanks. I am well aware.

        Originally Posted by blur View Post

        It would be nice to get an rss feed of new posts in my RSS reader so I can scan the list and see what interests me.
        Exactly. I don't really "surf" websites much and time spent on specific sites are quickly coming to an end based on their RSS availability. I can cover far more ground a lot faster and zero in on what I want vs. use Web 1.0 methods of access.

        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

        The trouble is, there are way too many people out there who believe that anything available via RSS is public domain.

        If the WF had a public RSS feed, how long do you think it would take for a host of autoblogs to show up with scraped WF content? Hint: the over/under is in minutes.
        Yeah I realize the risks. But I think that forums as a destination have a limited life expectancy as the web transitions away from browser-based destinations. We can already see aggregation being the nexus in social media sites with mobile access. It's still a little time off, but there is a finite life.
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      • Profile picture of the author tomsmart80
        er it takes about 2 secs to produce that feed with free tools on the web
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        • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
          Originally Posted by tomsmart80 View Post

          er it takes about 2 secs to produce that feed with free tools on the web
          Well I could set up a screen scraping script on my own server and do it myself too, but I'm not necessarily that motivated to put that much effort into it.

          <?php
          // Get page
          $url = http://www.whateversite.com;
          $data = implode("", file($url));
          // Get content items
          preg_match_all ("/<div class=\"contentitem\">([^`]*?)<\/div>/", $data, $matches);
          // Begin feed
          header ("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
          echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>\n";
          ?>
          <rss version="2.0"
          xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
          xmlns:content="RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Content"
          xmlns:admin="MetaVocab (Proposed)"
          xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
          <channel>
          <title>PHPit Latest Content</title>
          <description>The latest content from whatever site screen scraped!</description>
          <link>http://www.whateversite.net</link>
          <language>en-us</language>

          <?
          // Loop through each content item
          foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
          // First, get title
          preg_match ("/\">([^`]*?)<\/a><\/h3>/", $match, $temp);
          $title = $temp['1'];
          $title = strip_tags($title);
          $title = trim($title);
          // Second, get url
          preg_match ("/<a href=\"([^`]*?)\">/", $match, $temp);
          $url = $temp['1'];
          $url = trim($url);
          // Third, get text
          preg_match ("/<p>([^`]*?)<span class=\"byline\">/", $match, $temp);
          $text = $temp['1'];
          $text = trim($text);
          // Fourth, and finally, get author
          preg_match ("/<span class=\"byline\">By ([^`]*?)<\/span>/", $match, $temp);
          $author = $temp['1'];
          $author = trim($author);
          // Echo RSS XML
          echo "<item>\n";
          echo "\t\t\t<title>" . strip_tags($title) . "</title>\n";
          echo "\t\t\t<link>http://www.whateversite.net" . strip_tags($url) . "</link>\n";
          echo "\t\t\t<description>" . strip_tags($text) . "</description>\n";
          echo "\t\t\t<content:encoded><![CDATA[ \n";
          echo $text . "\n";
          echo " ]]></content:encoded>\n";
          echo "\t\t\t<dc:creator>" . strip_tags($author) . "</dc:creator>\n";
          echo "\t\t</item>\n";
          }
          ?>
          </channel>
          </rss>
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