RSS feed to newsreader

[GJ51]

I use Rainmeter on my desktop to program rss feeds to the desktop, but I can't get the Subsonic forum RSS link to work in my reader.

;RSSURL=http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/rss.php
;RSSName="BIOS-Mods"
;RSSURL=http://drudgereportfeed.com/rss.xml
;RSSName="The Drudge Report"
RSSURL=http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/feed.php
RSSName="Subsonic"

The two commented links work fine, but I can't get the SS link working. I've also tried

RSSURL=http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/feed.php#

Anybody know the right link?

[hakko]

Not much help, but are you sure the problem is not with your reader? http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/feed.php works fine if you open it in a browser like Firefox, and the xml coming out from it looks legit:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-gb">
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/feed.php" />

<title>Subsonic Forum</title>
<subtitle>forum.subsonic.org</subtitle>
<link href="http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/index.php" />
<updated>2012-05-06T19:28:17+00:00</updated>


[GJ51]

Very possible. Funny that the other links work fine. I'll try another reader code later. Thanks.

[hakko]

I checked the xml from the Drudge Report Feed, and it looks like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Drudge Report Feed</title>
    <link>http://drudgereportfeed.com/</link>
    <description>An RSS feed of the Drudge Report</description>
    <atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DrudgeReportFeed" /><feedburner:info uri="drudgereportfeed" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif">Subscribe with My Yahoo!</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif">Subscribe with NewsGator</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/favorites.my.aol.com/webmaster/ffclient/webroot/locale/en-US/images/myAOLButtonSmall.gif">Subscribe with My AOL</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://feeds.feedburner.com/DrudgeReportFeed" src="http://www.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern11.gif">Subscribe with Bloglines</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://www.netvibes.com/img/add2netvibes.gif">Subscribe with Netvibes</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif">Subscribe with Google</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FDrudgeReportFeed" src="http://www.pageflakes.com/ImageFile.ashx?instanceId=Static_4&amp;fileName=ATP_blu_91x17.gif">Subscribe with Pageflakes</feedburner:feedFlare><item>



As you can see, the application type for Drudge Report is application/rss+xml, while the Subsonic application type is application/atom+xml. It could be that your reader doesn't support the latter? Just guessing though, but technically, those links aren't exactly the same.

[GJ51]

I just tried a reader in a different Rainmeter skin and it works. I'll have to analyze the other skin to see if I can fix it. Thanks for the assist.

[GJ51]

Got it working.



It's a Rainmeter desktop skin that can be moved around on the desktop to any location on the screen. Mouseover gives the complete title and a left click takes you right to the post in your default browser.

It took a bit of time to get what I wanted with color, font size and spacing, but it's now just what I wanted.

If anyone esle uses Rainmeter and would like the code just send me a PM and I'll post a link to the file for download.

[hakko]

nice!

[bushman4]

Before the Forum changed, there used to be a way to get a feed of just your unread posts... anyone know if that is still possible?

Glenn