IE7 Feeds API
The IE7 Feeds API has been out for a while now. Has anyone built a podcast aggregator with it yet?
The IE7 Feeds API has been out for a while now. Has anyone built a podcast aggregator with it yet?
Just finished a bunch of updates to the API page. There are still quite a few “coming soon”s but the previous version was more of a mockup than anything else. Quote: “…rather than wait for the glorious 1.0 we’ll favor a release early, release often model, putting new stuff here as it becomes available…” Also, I’ve bubbled up a bunch of live feeds that you may not have been aware of. Enjoy!
Nathan Nutter explains how to export your podcast subscriptions as OPML from iTunes. It works for Dave Winer. When I try, iTunes crashes. Boo hoo. But most definitely absolutely a step in the right direction!
Over the weekend and past couple of days I’ve been working on a demo, so no podplay feeds yet. In the meantime, a few of you have sent mails about the listener services Adam mentioned in Thursday’s DSC. Good news, these will emit RSS and OPML, so as long as your podcatcher supports import/export, you shouldn’t need to do any additional coding. One of you suggested supporting an enhancement to the combined RSS feeds that mix several different podcasts into one.
I’d like tags available for each so the softtware can determine which feed they originally came from, to treat them differently if the user so selects, or even perhaps split them back up into the original “feeds”, if thats what the user wants.
Excellent idea! I think we can solve this one with the RSS source sub-element of item. I’ve fed this back to the dev team, stay tuned. It looks like I wrote support into GigaDial for this. Take a look at the New England Podcasters’ feed to see ’source’ in action.
