Wednesday
Mar112009
Yahoo Pipes OPML FAIL (Google Reader)
20090311 at 03:24 I went to add a simple feature on this site: a list of entries from blogs I like. Also known as a widget showing a magic RSS feed. Enter Yahoo Pipes. Should be simple enough, except I discovered that almost every OPML parser in use is broken with regard to google reader. I have many many subscriptions, so I create a number of folders for organization. Because I use google reader as my "master" feed subscription list, I think it's important to get these basic tools right. I'm going to solve this step by step, starting with a better method for parsing the xml, to handle "nested" OPML a la google reader. Folders are empty parent items with a no URL or "type=rss", just "text", "title", and children.Go to My Yahoo Pipes if you want to verify or play along: “BROKEN Fetch OPML -do aggregate …”
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <opml version="1.0"> ... <body> <outline title="arts" text="arts"> <outline text="Civic Center" title="Civic Center" type="rss" xmlUrl= ...So, to summarize: FetchData & Yahoo Pipes Help are deficient, and all the OPML aggregation examples I’ve tested are broken. They use FetchData to make an item list out of body.outline, so you get a list of “folders”, instead of the actual feeds.
in article | tagged aggregation, blog, bug, google, google reader, opml, parsing, rss, xml, yahoo pipes
article | tagged aggregation, blog, bug, google, google reader, opml, parsing, rss, xml, yahoo pipes
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