RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

For specific forums:

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

Hi Guys,

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

Thanks.

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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.

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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?

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

Thank's
Michael & Marc Good Job:D

Also the wattflyer site too"

RE: RSS Syndication
 

Thanks!

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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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RE: RSS Syndication
 

I clicked that heli feed and it comes up ok for me. it isn't for you?

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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 ... ?

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

marc

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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!

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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

RE: RSS Syndication
 

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!