Pei Huang helpfully pointed out that the MySpace RSS Creator wasn’t working quite right on some blogs. Apparently some blogs have the time at the top of each post and others have it at the bottom. The tool would work on both, but the post times would all be wrong when the time was on top. I don’t know how if this is something new at MySpace or if it’s always been like this, but the tool will handle both types now.
Also, it can now produce Atom feeds in addition to RSS feeds. If you don’t know what that means, you probably have no reason to care, but the name has been changed accordingly. As always, please let me know if you notice any problems.
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Something has happened fairly recently that now every single timestamp for my feed gets set to Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800
the feed: http://makedatamakesense.com/myspace/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.myspace.com%2Fnfriedly&format=rss
the myspace: http://blog.myspace.com/nfriedly
I edited one post that had a lot of html that was completely valid until myspace touched it, but that didn’t seem to fix it.
It was getting confused by the date format you’re using with the “[” and “|” and “]” characters, but it should be working now. Thanks for letting me know.
Cool, it does seem to be working right now. Thanks!
.. It looks like your server is getting hammered. my feed (linked in comment 1) is getting an Internal Server Error, and the feedburner version has an error message about mysql_connect() hitting the max_user_connections limit: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nfriedly
…I didn’t realize the rss maker even needed a database.
Thanks for letting me know Nathan. The database isn’t necessary, but it’s used for caching to (ironically enough) avoid reliability problems.
It looks like about half of the traffic on this site is loading a single blog about a thousand times (!!) every hour. I just turned that off, so this should fix the problem. Hopefully whoever has been loading that so much will contact me when they notice it’s no longer working, and we can work out a way for them to load it less often.
Sorry, I didn’t know where else to post this. On the feed generated for my blog, the entry’s ‘Category’ and ‘Current mood’ are included inside the XML item->title tags, making the Category and Current mood appear alongside the actual title in an aggregator. It’s not supposed to do that, is it?
You can check out the feed at
http://makedatamakesense.com/myspace/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.myspace.com%2Fveaudaux&format=rss
This is an awesome tool… so glad someone took the initiative! When trying to export a myspace blog to RSS feed, I get these errors on your page:
Warning: require_once(INCLUDE_PATHabstract_db_object.class.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.evans/smreynen/makedatamakesense.com/include/url_cache.class.php on line 3
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘INCLUDE_PATHabstract_db_object.class.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/.evans/smreynen/makedatamakesense.com/include/url_cache.class.php on line 3
amp, I haven’t been able to reproduce that error. Can you post more details about where you’re seeing that?
First of all, you are awesome!
Also, You not gonna like redirect my feeds to porns sites or anything are you? LOL This is for a Christian Artist…
Real Question:
http://makedatamakesense.com/myspace/event/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fsmichaelp&format=rss&style=simple
Why is the starting date in 1969???
It shows once you subscribe to it…
It does this on it and the blog myspace one as well…
Also, feed validator catches it… http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmakedatamakesense.com%2Fmyspace%2Fevent%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.myspace.com%252Fsmichaelp%26format%3Drss%26style%3Dsimple
THANKS A LOT! YOU’RE GREAT!
If I ever redirect the feeds it will be to an equivalent feed provided by MySpace, if they ever get around to doing that. The dates go to 1969 when it can’t figure them out. Looks like the feed you pointed to is working okay now.
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