Comments on: Introducing FeedTier

By: slyi

slyi — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:51:12 +0000

Great tool, I really love it. I hope you dont mind, but i used it on live.com gadget http://microsoftgadgets.com/fo.....wPost.aspx

By: Nicky

Nicky — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:20:35 +0000

I figured out how to fix the error!

Put a closing slash in the URL you add to feedtier! It solves the dropped character problem.

So don’t put this:
http://www.londonlinks.ac.uk

instead put this:
http://www.londonlinks.ac.uk/

The slash at the end has to be there. Feedtier must expect the slash to be there all the time, whether it is or not, and deletes it to form URLs. However, when the slash is missing the script ends up corrupting the URL, turning .com into the useless .co and .co.uk into .co.u

If you put the / at the end every time then Feedtier works great.

By: ray saunders

ray saunders — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:36:22 +0000

scanned http://www.steeleweed.com and linked to the XML document, which look good. Some of the links show up in the XML but not on the displayed page and like the others, those links are missing the last byte…www.steeleweed.co/webpage.html instead of http://www.steeleweed.coM/webpage.html. It does, however, build the XML whichI can save and use as RSS for the site, no?

By: ray saunders

ray saunders — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:02:19 +0000

Fanstastic idea- love it. Have been thinking for some time about coding a tool to scan websites and produce RSS-able version of the site.

However, right now I haven’t even time to build RSS into one of my sites, alhthough it changes often and many folks would like to get RSS feeds.

FeedTier seems to grab only the links on the front page, without drilling down. Is there anything I can do to make FeedTier ‘index’ it more completely? Maybe I could code ‘invisible’ link FeedTier would grab but which would not appear to the user?.

By: stubbornlikeamule

stubbornlikeamule — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:53:23 +0000

This is something I’ve been looking for for ages. Unfortunately I’ve found it still doesn’t feed the page that I want successfully:

http://www.themusic.com.au/daily_news/index.php

All it feeds is the link list at the top.

Please keep me update with any further builds as things progress.

By: Matthew Carrick

Matthew Carrick — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:41:32 +0000

Ditto here. http://www.magnastudio.ca won’t work because the “a” in .ca is missing. Very nice idea though – I would be happy to introduce clients to this when it works.

By: Andy Richardson

Andy Richardson — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:41:04 +0000

Hi,

Just tried this. Interesting. However is it just me or when you get the sample links or paste RSS into say Bloglines – when the feeds show – if you click on the link you get a dead page. Reason as far as I can see is that it misses the “k” of the url for”.uk” Try http://www.londonlinks.ac.uk and see if you can replicate this?