0xDECAFBAD - Tag: feedspool2011-11-16T16:29:50+00:00l.m.orchard@pobox.comFeedSpool is progressing nicely2005-10-05T20:58:21+00:00http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/feedspool-is-progressing-nicely<p>I'm at it again: Last night, I got an initial stab at a <a href="http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/FeedSpool/Plugins">plugin API</a> for <a href="http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/FeedSpool">FeedSpool</a> working.</p>
<p>The first thing I built was an <a href="http://decafbad.com/trac/browser/trunk/feedspool/plugins/poll_schedule_vary.py">auto-adjusting feed poll schedule plugin</a> which varies the time between feed polls based on whether there were new entries found in the latest poll. It's kind of like an AIMD algorithm used in networking—I thank <a href="http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/09/29/dynamic-polling-freq-too#comment-1061">Gnomon</a> for the idea a few years back.</p>
<p>The next thing I built was a <a href="http://decafbad.com/trac/browser/trunk/feedspool/plugins/miniagg/">quick plugin bundle I call <code>miniagg</code></a>. If you'd like a preview, I've posted <a href="http://decafbad.com/2005/10/miniagg/news-20051005-152956.html">an HTML snapshot of what <code>miniagg</code> produces</a>. It's a refinement and reworking of various aggregator UI pieces I've had floating around since <a href="http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/AmphetaOutlines">AmphetaOutlines</a>, only I think this is the simplest and cleanest I've gotten it yet. (CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript, hooray!)</p>
<p>This only seems to work on Firefox and Safari—it's currently broken for MSIE, and I don't care enough to fix it yet. (Something to do with multiple CSS classes, I believe.) But, if you're unfortunate enough to be using that browser, here's a screen capture:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.decafbad.com/blog_attachments/miniagg-1.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.decafbad.com/blog_attachments/miniagg-1.jpg','popup','width=984,height=742,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://www.decafbad.com/blog_attachments/miniagg-1-tm.jpg" height="244" width="324" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Miniagg-1" /></a></p>
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<div class="content"><p>I've been using a program called <a href="http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html" rel="nofollow">Rawdog</a> for a while as my feed reader. Miniagg looks very similar to it. I've been looking for a replacement as he is not planning to support Atom 1.0 since <a href="http://feedparser.org" rel="nofollow">feedparser</a> has gone unmaintained. The HTML preview looks really good, I'm importing my subscriptions right now ;)</p></div>
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<div class="content"><p>Alas, this miniagg uses feedparser also. However, I was thinking of patching / finding someone who'd patched feedparser for Atom 1.0—or replacing it with a new, maybe less liberal parser of my own, since FeedSpool is actually not all that liberal (in that it requires valid XML, anyway).</p></div>
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<div class="content"><p><a href="http://fucoder.com/2005/08/feedparser-atom-10-patch/" rel="nofollow">FeedParser Atom 1.0 support patch</a>.</p></div>
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<a href="#comment-221085183" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-26T19:16:09">2005-10-26T19:16:09</time></a>
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<div class="content"><p>The feedparser page says that a prerelease v4.0 can be downloaded that includes support for Atom 1.0 feeds. Beats writing your own :)</p></div>
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