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  • 05-04-2006 10:43am
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    finnpark
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    Hi,

    Im trying to find out about RSS feeds, how to use them basically.

    I want to have news and sport features on my website using RSS feeds.

    Do I need to learn XML programming? What other skills are needed and what is the best way to go about it (software etc)?

    Seems like a great feature for any website and I notice that a lot of brodcasters are using this.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Why do you want one? Are you going to create a feed so that others can use your data or are you going to use someone elses feed?


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    finnpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭finnpark


    kbannon wrote:
    Why do you want one? Are you going to create a feed so that others can use your data or are you going to use someone elses feed?

    I want to display someone else's feed on my website. I just want to do it to beef up my website. So I want to say take news from Sky News , sport from BBC/RTE etc and display the feed on my website.

    Thanks,
    finnpark


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Read the parent sites info - some supply feeds in different formats, not just as an xml file, including JavaScript and you just need to copy/paste a bit of code...

    There are other options such as http://www.tickermyfeed.com/
    http://rssfeedreader.com/
    http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/p/RSSRDF-Converter___138.html

    If you are unfamiliar with it all then this will make a good start.


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