XDA-developers now offers RSS feeds

[Peter Poelman]

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a way for other sites to carry our content. If you don't know what it means, it probably won't do much for you.

http://xda-developers.com/news.rss (latest 10 news items)

http://xda-developers.com/forum-30.rss (last 30 active forum topics)

[NYCspeedSurfer]

While I see two RSS Feed linls listed here, is there a way to access only specific forums (i.e. Blue Angel Upgrading or Blue Angel Accessories) with an RSS Feed Link?

Thanks in advance for your answer!

[SubZero5]

Why don't you add:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="XDA-Developers News" href="http://xda-developers.com/news.rss" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="XDA-Developers Last 30 Topics" href="http://xda-developers.com/forum-30.rss" />

to the HTML Head field? :)

[NYCspeedSurfer]

I appreciate your response, however if I'm reading your code correctly this would give me the last 30 posts, regardless of forum. I'm only interested in posts in the BA forums (either BA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewforum.php?f=23
or
BS Upgrading:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewforum.php?f=24).
Any ideas on this? I'm currently beta testing NewsBreak and would like to include feeds specific to my device.

TIA!

[SubZero5]

I appreciate your response, however if I'm reading your code correctly this would give me the last 30 posts, regardless of forum. I'm only interested in posts in the BA forums (either BA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewforum.php?f=23
or
BS Upgrading:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewforum.php?f=24).
Any ideas on this? I'm currently beta testing NewsBreak and would like to include feeds specific to my device.

TIA!I think the same. You must order the phpbb_topics table by the last message post (time/id) and pick the first 30 post_id 's... :) Smt like this will do afaik:
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM " . TOPICS_TABLE . "
ORDER BY `topic_last_post_id` DESC
LIMIT 0, 30";

[JeromeMorrow]

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a way for other sites to carry our content. If you don't know what it means, it probably won't do much for you.

http://xda-developers.com/news.rss (latest 10 news items)

http://xda-developers.com/forum-30.rss (last 30 active forum topics)

Great! Just I am looking for.

[rodalfa]

Hi,
I agree: it should be very very usefull to have a different rss for each forum, in order to sync only that forums of your interest...

Any idea?

[gladman]

So, is there an rss feed for each forum yet? I don't need the feed for the whole xda phone world!

[elziko]

Yup, it's the same for me. I'm only interested in maybe three forums.

Any chance of getting individual feeds?

[deedee]

I am using SPB Insight as my news feed reader and have sucessfully subscribed to just the ones i need using varations on the following:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=312

All i did was change the number on the end to reflect the sub forum i wanted. 312 being the Trinity Upgrade Thread.

[GpsPasSion]

Is it be possible to be notified of all new posts, not just new threads ?

[flarestarwingz]

It would be nice if we could subscribe to specific threads as well :) It would be handy for the bigger topics (Kitchen threads etc).

[cirillov]

Not seen any answer to the same point posted couple of posts above.
Is it possibile to subscribe and get updats also for new posts, not only new threads?
Thx
Vic

[speedy1979]

Yes is it posssible to subscribe to a particular thread? :confused:

[mmoroz]

Yes, please... me too... if I could subscribe to specific threads, it'd be absolutely great!

Alternatively, I guess I can just reroute all email notifications from subscribed threads into my rss reader.. although the result won't look nearly as clean as if an RSS feed could just be directly tied to a subscribed thread..

Thanks!

[CyZeeK]

I am using SPB Insight as my news feed reader and have sucessfully subscribed to just the ones i need using varations on the following:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=312

All i did was change the number on the end to reflect the sub forum i wanted. 312 being the Trinity Upgrade Thread.


Thanx!!! it works!!!

[bartan]

Thanx!!! it works!!!


some numbers for hermes Rss feeds : 305 -355 -306

some observation: the numbers are in order of creation of subtopics so there is a logic in it but no logic in it :D example: hermes WM6 thread opened much later than other hermes threads so its number is 355 the others are 305-306 are in order...

[Jadel]

How do I see the newest post in each feed?
I seem to be able to get the first post in each feed, which is no good for me, considering some threads are 350+ posts long and I just want to read the last few posts in that thread.
Currently, I just keeping getting the first post over and over.

[mad_tunes]

Hi folks,

I've added various forums (sub-forums?) to RSS Hub and it's working great apart from only showing me the 15 most recent new treads-can i increase this number?

I'm currently using URLs like this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=419

Thanks in advance!

'tunes

[HHumbert]

For whatever reason, I'm not getting the subform listing to work with the RSS feed of Yahoo. Other RSS feeds work, including the RSS feed from the top-level (i.e., all new posts across all of XDA Developers).

I'm using the form of:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=419

Any ideas? Did this suddenly stop working?

[jneilliii]

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a way for other sites to carry our content. If you don't know what it means, it probably won't do much for you.

http://xda-developers.com/news.rss (latest 10 news items)

http://xda-developers.com/forum-30.rss (last 30 active forum topics)

I've seen how to only show posts from specific forums, but has any work been done on pulling individual threads for rss?

[dioxda2]

I am using SPB Insight as my news feed reader and have sucessfully subscribed to just the ones i need using varations on the following:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=312

All i did was change the number on the end to reflect the sub forum i wanted. 312 being the Trinity Upgrade Thread.

Thanks.....really knock on my head... :D:D

[teorouge]

How can I have RSS Feeds of the new posts of my subscribed threads?

[niknik76]

Bringing up an old thread here

As already asked, is it possible to recieve RSS Feeds for specific subscribed threads??

[B1ny]

I also want this, just getting the new threads doesn't do much good.

How can I have RSS Feeds of the new posts of my subscribed threads?

[niknik76]

Anyone.........?

[deddy777]

Fantatic works great.:)

I am using SPB Insight as my news feed reader and have sucessfully subscribed to just the ones i need using varations on the following:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=312

All i did was change the number on the end to reflect the sub forum i wanted. 312 being the Trinity Upgrade Thread.

[kulen]

So, did anybody solve how to suscribe only to one thread so you can see only new posts in that thread.

I tried methods mentioned here but it only shows new threads in selected subforum. and that is pretty useless to me.

Thank you

[meltwater]

Want to kick this to the top again, RSS feed for a specific thread would be great!

The sub forum &forumids=xxxx option is great but it's not quite enough I think for most of us.

Just needs to support something like &threadids=xxxxx so we can check for updates on

If this got implemented, then my next job will be an RSS Sense tab....

[svetius]

Want to kick this to the top again, RSS feed for a specific thread would be great!

The sub forum &forumids=xxxx option is great but it's not quite enough I think for most of us.

Just needs to support something like &threadids=xxxxx so we can check for updates on

If this got implemented, then my next job will be an RSS Sense tab....

Thanks for your request. We'll add it to our list of features to consider.

[c00ller]

Wow, this is a really old thread. Every other forum I visit has this feature! I love the new revamped forum look, but this is a standard that should be available, RSS feeds for individual threads!

[HELLium]

"Related Posts" section in RSS feeds is totally waste of space. Can it be removed?

[svetius]

"Related Posts" section in RSS feeds is totally waste of space. Can it be removed?

You're right. We're going to do this shortly.

[computerguy509]

You're right. We're going to do this shortly.

personally, i like this... but if needed it is ok. maybe an option to choose one or the other?

[meltwater]

Any news on putting proper RSS feed support into the forum?

I'm only asking since a Sense RSS Tab is now on it's way (Project launched today) and I would love to be able to keep up with it's development using RSS feeds from the thread!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758107

[FelixAkk]

Also big proponent of this. Please bring us this feature soon! :) Would be a big improvement over the spam-ish bombardment of notification emails.

That, in combination with a Sense RSS tab would hit the spot ! ;p

[the_Enlightened]

Perfect... just what I need!

[meltwater]

Thanks for your request. We'll add it to our list of features to consider.
Now I understand this is a vbulletin based forum, then I've managed to find a useful feed

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS1&forumids=523&lastpost=1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS1&forumids=523&lastpost=1

The &lastpost option, at least lets you see the most recent threads which have been updated with new posts (i.e. as you would view on the forum view), otherwise, you simply get list of the newest threads (by creation date), which isn't very useful. If your rss reader supports it you could then filter for the Thread name you are interested in.

[gpietron]

Now I understand this is a vbulletin based forum, then I've managed to find a useful feed

http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS1&forumids=523&lastpost=1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS1&forumids=523&lastpost=1

The &lastpost option, at least lets you see the most recent threads which have been updated with new posts (i.e. as you would view on the forum view), otherwise, you simply get list of the newest threads (by creation date), which isn't very useful. If your rss reader supports it you could then filter for the Thread name you are interested in.

....
and to follow posts in a specific thread you paste a link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=[number]&page=99999 (<- to go to last page) into page2rss.com and then follow the provided link.
works for me!

cheers,

[pogar]

The "lastpost=1" returns only a few list of posts. May I ask is there a possibility to extend it or have it customized? (for example by additional URL parameter like Count)

Kind regards

[meltwater]

The "lastpost=1" returns only a few list of posts. May I ask is there a possibility to extend it or have it customized? (for example by additional URL parameter like Count)

Kind regards

It took me a while to realize it but the forum isn't custom coded, so they are limited to the features which are available to the system they are using.

However, you may find a solution by using a service to covert pages into rss feeds for you (as mentioned above), but until the forum service they are using adds better feed support (and xda upgrades to it) we shall have to wait a little longer.

It is a shame though, since the subscribe email isn't the best solution for following threads.