RSS Feed and Blogger

[Infiniterb]

Is there a way to specify an RSS feed to post into your blogger content? For instance, I've got a tech blog that I want to post the news stories from a tech news source. Any idea if that will/won't work within the confines of Blogger?

Thanks.

[ResaleBroker]

You might check out this thread (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=77379&postcount=1).

[Infiniterb]

Yeah, saw it earlier today. Was wondering if that really would work within Blogger. I know I can simply put that into a php page or apend it to something. I'd rather find something that would make the blogger posts (besides manually adding it). I'd add my own posts when I have time.

[ResaleBroker]

I'd rather find something that would make the blogger posts (besides manually adding it).Sounds like an interesting idea. If you find anything let us know.

[celt]

Can't you turn on Blogger's option to enable posting through email and then have a script email those news stories to your Blogger email address?

[noppid]

If anyone is going to use RSS and pull from other sites, you should be using an RSS complient caching feed reader that has sanity checks in it to protect the site you are pulling from and the user.

It's rude to hit a site eveytime your site is hit, it fact it's in the RFC that you should not. You should not be using file or open to pull from remote sites either. When the connection fails, the users session hangs till the php timeout expires and the server is just spinning it's wheels trying to get a response all that time and this is occuring for every hit on your site that requests that feed should it fail.

If nothing else, have some cosideration for your users and your server if you don't care about the webamaster suppling a free feed for content on your site for your members.

[mxlabs]

I completely agree that you shouldn't parse rss 1:1 on production sites.
On top of that, you can save some extra traffic by calculating how often a feed is updated and change the interval based on that figure.