When I paste the url for any of the forum sub-things (such as “Using Arduino"; “Topics”; “Development”, etc.) into my Google Reader “Add a subscription” button place, it seems to give me the entire forum in one take, most of this is in foreign languages which are no use to me as I’m British.
What do I do to get just the feeds for each separate sub-thing in the forum (such as “Using Arduino"; “Topics”; “Development”, etc.), so that I can exclude other sub-things that aren’t wanted?
Until we implement the more user-friendly RSS feed buttons all over the place, if you want to get the feed from a single category, you could do something like this:
That one will list the last 10 messages in the category "2", which is "Using Arduino". The number corresponding to each category can be obtained by looking at the URL for each link on the main page. For example, "Using Arduino" has the URL:
where "c=2" is the category.
We have the implementation of RSS icons pretty high in our category list, in the meanwhile, feel free to use this trick with your reader.
That’s interesting. The “International” category is 6 so I should just be able to use the url
However, Google Reader isn’t having any of it. It doesn’t like any the key-value pairs passed to the php app. For example, if I give it:
it doesn’t accept it.
Nor:
Nor
But it does accept:
But then I’m potentially back where I started.
Would it be easier just to tell the rest of the world to only speak English? I recall there was an initiative to do precisely that a few hundred years ago, by people I’m not related to (or if I am, they spent all the money before I was born).
I am sorry to say but the most spoken (western) language in the world is Spanish, I wonder how good you are in that, since you are suggesting we should all write in it
Letting the jokes aside, Google Reader needs to get the feed with the right header. The way to make this is by adding a "type=atom" at the end of your feed, like:
Also, on mowcius’ point, there’s the distinction between two cases in feed reading:
• Do I only want to see new topics posted (ie, the original posting as it stands now, with perhaps a few immediate replies that have occurred by that time) or
• Do I want to see every new post that occurs, not distinguishing between newly originated posts, and their replies.
but when you make the call with c=1,2,3,4,5 are you still getting international messages? I have tried it out myself and it comes out right every time.
Aha. This should work for “Community” on its own (although in Google reader it’s coming up as only “Website and forum”:
And I get only the initial post on each one.
[edit]: Hmm, yes it is only paying attention to “Website and forum” — for example, the “first post” entry in ”bar sport” isn’t present in the Google Reader list.
[further edit] aha, and if I increase ‘limit’ to limit=30, I pick up all 14 original posts but only in “Website and forum’. However, if I reverse the order of the ‘board‘ value list to board=30,29,28,27,26,25,24 what I get is one post only, which is the “First Post?” entry in “Bar Sport”. Interesting.