Feedpalooza Journal

World of Warcraft Feed Goodness

2006-09-09T19:10:00.000+02:00

Hello, fellow Sports Racers, I just wanted to let you know that I've fixed the feeds for the official WoW message boards. As you might know, the official boards finally got their long overdue total overhaul, and thus the scraper didn't know what to do with them anymore. Well, I've fixed that. The new RSS feed for the official WoW US message boards is here. Please note that, just like the old

The end of custom feed hosting...

2006-07-12T14:39:00.000+02:00

Hi, how you doing, long time no talk. Listen, I've decided to turn off all "broken and expired" custom feeds within the next few days. When I say "broken and expired", I mean the following thing: Let's say you've got a custom feed with me. The feed is broken since the original site underwent some changes, and we're over the first year of free maintenance. Now, up until now I would've asked

Shameless plug: Firefox extension BetterShopper

2006-01-27T23:19:00.000+01:00

While working on my servers tonight I noticed I had just updated BetterShopper, one of my Firefox extensions. Now imagine my surprise... ;) What's it do, you ask? It can convert all displayed Amazon.com/.co.uk/.de/.ca/.fr/.co.jp prices to your favourite currency: US$, CDN$, EUR, GBP or JPY. And it'll do so using daily updated currency exchange rates! Also BetterShopper will lookup the prices

[ADDED] The Colbert Nation

2005-12-09T23:05:00.000+01:00

Just scraped the blog/news section of the website of one of my favourite TV shows, The Colbert Report. The new feed is here, hope you'll like it. Spread the word, watch the show!

[REPAIRED] Planetary Society Headlines

2005-06-22T11:59:00.000+02:00

The feed for the Planetary Society's news headlines was slightly screwed up, so the feed didn't show all news. I've just fixed that. On a related note, congratulations to the members of the Planetary Society for the (apparently) successful launch of COSMOS 1! :)

100k Requests Per Day!

2005-05-18T18:00:00.000+02:00

Ladies and gents, I'm proud to announce that yesterday we broke the magical marker of 100.000 RSS requests/day. That's right. For the first time in its existence, my little Feedpalooza site here was delivering a 6-digit number of feed requests in one single day. Not bad, I'd say! :) Looks like there's a certain demand for RSS feeds, eh? (Take note, RSS-less site owners! Do your homework.) So,

May I tell you about...

2005-05-18T11:11:00.000+02:00

...my newest project, a Firefox extension called BetterShopper, which makes your Amazon online shopping a tad easier? It can convert all displayed Amazon.com/.co.uk/.de/.ca/.fr prices to your favourite currency: US$, CDN$, EUR or GBP. And it'll do so using daily updated currency exchange rates! Also BetterShopper will lookup the prices of the currently displayed Amazon product in over a dozen

[UPDATE] EuroGamer.net

2005-05-10T10:22:00.000+02:00

Apparently EuroGamer.net was relaunched which made my scraped feeds break. So, I've fixed them. At that point I noticed EG is sporting three new categories (PSP, DS, next gen), so I've added feeds for those three sections, too.

[REPAIRED] European World of Warcraft News

2005-04-13T08:28:00.000+02:00

The feeds for the Official European WoW Sites were slightly kaputt (read: broken), so I've fixed them. They validate again, so all is well in WoW feed land now. Have a good one.

[ADDED] 120 New Feeds: World Of Warcraft - Official Forums

2005-04-07T11:53:00.000+02:00

You might be interested that I've just taken the liberty to build RSS feeds for all the official World of Warcraft forums. So, that's ~120 new feeds for today. :) As always, you can find the list on the Feedpalooza main page. The single feeds are updated every 15 minutes and contain the most recent 75 headlines of the selected message board. It's rather handy to keep an eye on a particular

Link Bugfixes

2005-04-06T10:34:00.000+02:00

I just noticed (after a friendly hint from a feed subscriber, thanks) that the conversion of relative links to absolute links doesn't always work. So, I fixed that, and that means that image and link tags should work as supposed now. Of course that means that for some feeds some old items might appear updated even if they look the same, because the items have changed markup-wise. Not all of them

[ADDED] European World of Warcraft News

2005-04-01T16:56:00.000+02:00

I've added three new feeds for the European World of Warcraft Community Site. Consider it a shout-out to my fellow Europeans and WoW addicts. :) - Official Euro WoW News, English edition - Official Euro WoW News, German edition - Official Euro WoW News, French edition Please note that in both German and French feeds there may be occasional character encoding problems with some special/local

[ADDED] IGN PSP & DS Feeds

2005-02-24T09:41:00.000+01:00

I was just told by a frequent IGN.com reader that IGN has added news sections for those new handhelds the kids go crazy about these days, i.e. a PSP channel and a DS channel. He was wondering if I could make some feeds for those channels, too, since I've already made feeds for all the other IGN sections. Well, I sure can. Have fun.

[PROBLEMS] Daily Show Feeds

2005-02-14T12:51:00.000+01:00

The feeds for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart are currently b0rked, because the DS website is partially broken. As soon as their site is working again, the feeds will be updated again.

Gmail Accounts

2005-01-17T13:07:00.000+01:00

I have 10 Gmail accounts sitting here, if anyone is interested, mail me at . Cheers!

[DELETED] Ctrl+Alt+Del Comics

2004-12-21T20:25:00.000+01:00

I was asked by Absath, the owner of the great and funny webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del, to immediately stop serving the unofficial RSS feed for his comic. His comic, his site, his rules, so the feed is gone. If you liked the comic, visit his site the old-fashioned way.

Request: Send Me Ad-Infested Feeds!

2004-12-08T17:37:00.000+01:00

Just a little request for an idea I have. If you happen to come across any RSS feed containing ads among the single feed items (ads by Overture or Kanoodle or whatever), please mail me the URL. I'm currently thinking about something (no details yet, sorry), and getting a few feed URLs would help me greatly. Thanks in advance!

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Outage

2004-12-01T20:54:00.000+01:00

There was a brief downtime last night; I screwed up the DNS entries. By the time you're reading this, apparently all is working again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Update 00:15 GMT: As it turned out, the server setup was screwed up as well, erratically delivering feed data to unrelated feeds. :( I don't find the right words to tell you how sorry I am about this. As you might imagine,

[UPDATE, ADDED] World of Warcraft Feeds

2004-12-01T17:29:00.000+01:00

I've added one new feed showing the news from the official WorldOfWarcraft.com Server Status page. If you're an avid WoW player like I am, you might want to remain informed when it comes to your gaming realm, so there. :) Then there were some minor changes to the WorldOfWarcraft.com frontpage which delivers the news, so I had to repair the feed for that one. Due to the markup changes of the

[ADDED, REPAIRED] Comics Feeds

2004-11-17T21:55:00.000+01:00

A little round of updates. I've noticed that the feeds for Ctrl+Alt+Del, Real Life and Applegeeks were slightly borked, so I've fixed that. Also, I've added a couple of feeds containing news updates from several comic sites: - Scott's rants and ramblings over at PvP Online - the full news posts at Penny Arcade! - Absath's musings at Ctrl+Alt+Del - the news and scribblings of Kazu at Bolt

[REPAIRED] NetJak.com

2004-11-03T09:50:00.000+01:00

The feeds for NetJak.com were broken. More precisely, they were all the same, i.e. all the different NetJak feeds had the same content. Apparently, noone notices and/or bothered to tell me. Not good. I've fixed it, so all the feeds contain the correct content now. Once again: Please, if you see one of my feeds behaving strangely, let me know, and I'll look into it ASAP. I can't be

[RESOLVED] TeamXbox.com, Bungie.net

2004-11-02T13:37:00.000+01:00

TeamXbox.coms HTML markup/layout changed a bit over the weekend, thus effectively breaking the scraping patterns. I've just repaired it, everything is back to normal by now. Same goes for Bungie.net, the feed is up and running again!

[RESOLVED] City Of Heroes - Updates

2004-10-28T11:44:00.000+02:00

In their relentless fight for peace and justice and their ongoing quest to slowly drive me nuts, the good folks over at CityOfHeroes.com have once again changed the layout and markup of the City of Heroes Updates page. Here's hoping it'll stay that way for a while. Anyways, the related feed was updated and is working again (and better than before, I might add).

[ADDED] GameSpot Hardware

2004-10-27T09:58:00.001+02:00

New feed available for GameSpot Hardware. Enjoy!

[UPDATE] Comic Repairs

2004-10-25T15:15:00.000+02:00

The feeds for Applegeeks, MacHall, Instant Classic and Radioactive Panda were partially broken and have just been fixed. Read the comics, and if you like them, donate to these artists!