Topic: RSS feeds tha work...

I loaded the Chumby RSS Reader and have been experimenting with RSS feeds. Lots of them don't work but some do.  I was able to get my local news on KSBW and also loaded NPR's morning edition. 

Is there a list that anyone has started of Chumby friendly feeds?

Re: RSS feeds tha work...

I have added CNN and Reuters. Works fine

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BoingBoing (feed link) works.

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Can we figure why some do and some dont? I set one up that shows on the web page but non on the chumby... Hmm.

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Which RSS formats are supported by he Chumby RSS reader?

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List some which don't work.  Slashdot works ok.

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I've been working on a feed that doesn't work on the Chumby, yet works in Google Reader and iGoogle:

http://www.webbastards.com/cgi-bin/school.cgi

Needless to say I'm trying to get it to work, as part of a larger project.  I'd appreciate knowing what the Chumb RSS reader doesn't like about this feed.

Re: RSS feeds tha work...

the w3c validator says that the feed is validly formed, but does make one (really minor - so minor that I doubt it's the issue) suggestion:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi? … school.cgi

Re: RSS feeds tha work...

most likely due to the sites lack of a crossdomain.xml file that permits flash to read them

here are some workarounds using feedburner or yahoo pipes

http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=1146

10 (edited by wayn3w 2007-12-11 06:03:13)

Re: RSS feeds tha work...

There is a bug in the Chumby RSS reader: if there is only one item in the channel, then the RSS reader will not behave well.

Here is a minimal test case:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
    <title>Test Feed </title>

    <link>http://127.0.0.1/rss/</link>

    <description>This is a test RSS feed</description>
    <language>en-us</language>

    <item>
        <title>One</title>
        <link>http://127.0.0.1/rss/1</link>
        <description>ONE</description>
    </item>

</channel>
</rss>

The Chumby RSS reader will say:
No articles found.
RSS Format may be unsupported.

To make it work, add another item to the channel, like:

    <item>
        <title>Two</title>
        <link>http://127.0.0.1/rss/2</link>
        <description>TWO</description>
    </item>

One more thing:  it shouldn't be considered an error if there were no items.