Hi

I have to admit I never needed to use RSS, but now the number of boards to check is getting to big.

but after supersearching for RSS for hours I'm overhelmed by services which are either not at all functioning or not in a acceptable way.

Could someone please give me advice how to ...

  1. get a tree view of all threads
  2. get a tree view of threads I'm involved
  3. get a tree view of threads I'm interested

Tree view means only the titles like in Recently Active Threads

An acceptable way to all three goals would be a kind of intelligent folding, unfolding only threads with activity since I checked and folded them all.

It must be possible to mark interesting threads, so that a filter may switch between the three views I listed above.

All of this should be possible with Thunderbird, but where do I get a feed allowing a treeview of threads?

Thanks Rolf

PS: I know RAT has most of this and could be extended with JS, but waiting for the webserver wastes the server performance and my lifespan. 8 )

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Re: Recommended RSS-Feed ?
by jeffa (Bishop) on Nov 25, 2008 at 20:39 UTC

    I don't have an answer purr saye, but jZed recently recommended the Google Feeds API for managing RSS. He managed to write an entire client-side web app that would serve dynamic content from various web sources.

    jeffa

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      but he didn't use it for perlmonks, right?

      Cheers Rolf

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Re: Recommended RSS-Feed for PerlMonks???
by Argel (Prior) on Dec 03, 2008 at 02:19 UTC
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      Not really, this page was my first try!

      I already tried some of these feeds, without getting any treeview of threads like in RAT , which is my main goal.

      Apparently it's either not possible to get thread views or nobody has a need for it. So I will try to write a script polling and filtering RAT.

      Cheers Rolf

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        Ugh. RAT is one of the most expensive pages to render, so please be careful to poll such very rarely and turn it off when you aren't watching the feed. And use /bare/ so you don't waste resources rendering nodelets. These are just a few of the reasons why we provide XML feeds.

        The thread information boils down to "parent ID" and "root ID", which are exposed in at least one XML feed designed for it and probably in other XML feeds for completeness. And if there is a feed that could use the addition of this information, surely you could find one of the 81 members of pmdev who could look into adding that information to that feed.

        Update: Oh, be sure to used the "I've checked all of these" form so RAT doesn't waste time re-rendering stuff you already scraped. And you might want to look up how to properly do linking here since you link to RAT "logged me out".

        - tye        

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