Good afternoon,

I'm curious if you guys have considered syndicating (XML/RSS) the forums so we could use a feed reader to subscribe to the forums that we wish to track rather frequently. In a good way, RCU has become VERY large and a lot of sites have become easier to use by simply plugging them into an RSS reader.

Thanks

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rss.asp

For specific forums:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rss.asp?forumid=47 (substitute actual forum id number)

Hi Guys,

This is great. But do you also have rss feed ( xml ) for product reviews and other RCU content?

Thanks.

Yes: http://www.rcuniverse.com/community/rcufreecontent.cfm

Did anyone figure out if there is an actual *RSS* feed of the magazine/reviews content? I would like to include it on our club website but not if it won't play with our RSS reader.

Michael is programming the RSS feed right now...should be done today

Superb! The old Coldfusion script include just didn't play well with our CMS system.

Thanks!

PS - Will you be posting a reply when it's available?

OK Boys, here ya go! These are the marketplace RSS feeds. The magazine ones are coming. We are working on completing them now.

Airplanes - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-airplanes.xml

Jets - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-jets.xml

Helis - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-helis.xml

Cars & Trucks - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-cars.xml

Boats - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-boats.xml

General - http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-market-general.xml

HAVE FUN!

Michael

The magazine RSS feeds are coming. We are working on them now too

Here are the magazine RSS feeds:

Airplanes: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-airplanes.xml
Boats: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-boats.xml
Helicopters: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-helicopters.xml
Electric Airplanes: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-ma...c%20flight.xml
Cars/Trucks/Buggies: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-cars.xml

Thank's
Michael & Marc Good Job

Also the wattflyer site too"

Thanks!

The only observation is that the magazine feeds still have "Items for sale in the RCU magplace" in the description.

should be fixed...thanks for heads up on that

The feed doesn't seem to work for Helicopters: http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-helicopters.xml
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The others are great. Thanks for the good work!
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I'm attempting to school our guys on http://www.drchristine.com/rccr/hangar.html
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I clicked that heli feed and it comes up ok for me. it isn't for you?

In the post above:
RE: RSS Syndication - 2/28/2007 9:11:21 PM

http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-helicopters.xml

gets message:
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

This feed contains code errors.
Go back to the previous page.

More information

An invalid character was found in text content.
Line: 31 Character: 229

<description><![CDATA[Its a great little toy to have around the house on a cold winter day to get some stick time while youre stuck indoors. This little guy can take a licking and keep on flying and its price isnt bad either.

Maybe that means that the feed itself contains code errors. Looks like a review on a micro helicopter. and the entire feed can't be displayed. Maybe I have an option set to prevent a feed display when it contains code errors ... or ... ?

Have the RSS feeds been dropped? We had the RCU magazine on our website but now we are getting errors.

not dropped. no. can you give me url to your page so I can troubleshoot for you?

marc

We are referencing the XML feed in Joomla... (we cannot use the coldfusion feeds)

Here is what we were using:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/rss/rss-mag-airplanes.xml

(as per the previous posts in this thread)

You can verify with your browser that the URL fails to retrieve the feeds and has the following error message (ie7):

"This feed contains code errors"

THANKS!

can you test again. I just tested in firefox and did not error out

Nope, doesn't work in IE7, doesn't work in Joomla. Both report an error in the feed format.

I just noticed they report a "feed normalization error" which is different from the error I got the last few weeks.

According to this feed validator site, the feed has problems:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...-airplanes.xml

The details of the problems are available on that link.

THANKS!