Why arent RSS feeds like this?

[Jakez]

Why do they have to be so difficult? I dont see why they couldnt just be a file that spits out a dump of text like:

url|title|description|etc
http://www.site.com|Title|Description|etc

[fris]

those arent rss feeds, those are dumps, big difference

[papill0n]

what fris said plus you can easily convert dumps to rsssss

[Jakez]

Yeah no shit, but what do RSS feeds have to offer over the easy use and flexibility of a dump?

[fatfoo]

That sure is a simple line of text.
It reminds me of the "add mass trades" feature in http://www.proton-tm.com script.

[Jason Voorhees]

Originally Posted by Jakez

Yeah no shit, but what do RSS feeds have to offer over the easy use and flexibility of a dump?

Same reason HTML has structure... It's not hard to read an rss feed...

[woj]

Originally Posted by Jakez

Yeah no shit, but what do RSS feeds have to offer over the easy use and flexibility of a dump?

dump offers no flexibility, the format is predefined... you don't have the same problem with an XML feed... XML is just a better more robust way of doing things...

[Jakez]

Anyone who has made a scraper would agree a dump style rss would be as flexible and easy to use as it can get.

HTML is formatted because you are using tags to style a page for a surfer to browse, there doesnt need to be any styling or formatting for something like RSS since its just a computer gathering information on your latest posts and a dump style would be a lot easier for a notice to parse and use as he pleases.

[k0nr4d]

Originally Posted by Jakez

Anyone who has made a scraper would agree a dump style rss would be as flexible and easy to use as it can get.

HTML is formatted because you are using tags to style a page for a surfer to browse, there doesnt need to be any styling or formatting for something like RSS since its just a computer gathering information on your latest posts and a dump style would be a lot easier for a notice to parse and use as he pleases.

I would prefer RSS in it's current format. There is alot that it provides that a dump like that cannot. Nesting of elements for instance for instance:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<videos>
<updated>2010-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated> 
<video>
	<id>Video ID Number From Database</id>
	<title>Title of Video</title>
	<description>Description of Video</description>

	<tags>Comma,Separated,Keywords,Go,Here</tags>
	<paysite>Name Of Paysite</paysite>
	<clip_url>http://www.domain.com/path/to/videos/</clip_url>
	<screen_url>http://www.domain.com/path/to/thumbnails/</screen_url>
	<clips>
			<clip>
			<duration>20</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>marta_sucks.flv</flv>
			<screens>
					<screen>marta.jpg</screen>
<screen>marta.jpg</screen>
			</screens>
			</clip>

			<clip>
			<duration>20</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>jenna_fucks.flv</flv>
			<screens>
					<screen>jenna.jpg</screen>

			</screens>
			</clip>
			<clip>
			<duration>123</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>kathy_anal.flv</flv>

			<screens>
					<screen>kathy.jpg</screen>
			</screens>
			</clip>
	</clips>
</video>

</videos>

[Jason Voorhees]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

I would prefer RSS in it's current format. There is alot that it provides that a dump like that cannot. Nesting of elements for instance for instance:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<videos>
<updated>2010-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated> 
<video>
	<id>Video ID Number From Database</id>
	<title>Title of Video</title>
	<description>Description of Video</description>

	<tags>Comma,Separated,Keywords,Go,Here</tags>
	<paysite>Name Of Paysite</paysite>
	<clip_url>http://www.domain.com/path/to/videos/</clip_url>
	<screen_url>http://www.domain.com/path/to/thumbnails/</screen_url>
	<clips>
			<clip>
			<duration>20</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>marta_sucks.flv</flv>
			<screens>
					<screen>marta.jpg</screen>
<screen>marta.jpg</screen>
			</screens>
			</clip>

			<clip>
			<duration>20</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>jenna_fucks.flv</flv>
			<screens>
					<screen>jenna.jpg</screen>

			</screens>
			</clip>
			<clip>
			<duration>123</duration>
			<width>640</width>
			<height>480</height>
			<flv>kathy_anal.flv</flv>

			<screens>
					<screen>kathy.jpg</screen>
			</screens>
			</clip>
	</clips>
</video>

</videos>

Also, how hard is doing this?

PHP Code:

<?php
//Load the rssparse
  $this->load->library('RSSParser', array('url' => 'http://link.to/rss.xml', 'life' => 2));
  //Get six items from the feed
  $data = $this->rssparser->getFeed(6);

  foreach ($data as $item) :
    // do stuff with $item['title'], $item['description'], etc.
  endforeach;  
?>

[SCORE Ralph]

Originally Posted by Jakez

Why do they have to be so difficult? I dont see why they couldnt just be a file that spits out a dump of text like:

url|title|description|etc
http://www.site.com|Title|Description|etc

You need a dump. Not an RSS feed.

[mOrrI]

Originally Posted by papill0n

what fris said plus you can easily convert dumps to rsssss

yes I can :=)