NotesI really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from an RSS feed. My reason for this is that I love Top Gear. But I donât have BBC America (or a TV) so my only alternative is downloading it. But I donât want to have to manually find the latest episode and then wait for it to download. This is a short how-to to get a simple RSS system set up using transmission-cli.Unfurl
NotesAutomatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if it ends in '-cast', you can get it with Automatic.Unfurl
NotesDirCaster is a PHP script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting MP3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for the Juice Podcast Receiver, jPodder, and other "podcatching" software. The feed is also fully iTunes compliant!Unfurl
Notes"Palm provides a public listing of all third-party applications and related metadata. This includes apps distributed via Web Distribution, the Palm App Catalog, and Beta Applications. These feeds are intended to facilitate the emergence of community directories of Palm webOS applications, such as the ones available at PreCentral and FreshMeat.
This article outlines the feeds and provides details on how to effectively consume them. "Unfurl
Notes"I almost never actually visit the Facebook web site: I follow it through a feed reader (in my case, NetNewsWire) along with all of my other feeds. "Unfurl
Notes"A JetPack for rsstodolist is available to add current URL by a single click.
To use it, first, install JetPack, then, come back on that page and click on the upper-right "install" button.
You should then have a new item in your status bar (at bottom) allowing you to type your feed name and use the "add url" button to add the current url to your feed."Unfurl
Notes"Providing search services that span a number of disparate websites is a challenging problem that in the past has been left to the big-boys such as Google. However Amazon's OpenSearch RSS format is changing this reality and providing a means for effective multiple website search to be deployed at low cost by small development teams. "Unfurl
Notes"Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in your space and share a pointer to the data."Unfurl
Notes"This script checks if the html contains alternate links to a feed on every page you visit. When an unknown feed found, it sends a request to google reader using your account for the number of subscribers. And it caches the number for subsequent visits. The cache is cleared every 24 hours."Unfurl
Notes"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download."Unfurl
Notes"a Firefox Extension called âAmbient Newsâ, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out."Unfurl
Notes"In some ways this is slightly more elegant than the XMPP solution as neither side has to maintain a dedicated long-running process. ... There are a number of people on inexpensive service providers who have at best web scripting hosting and not much elseUnfurl
Notes"David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Ed Felten, all of Princeton's Information Technology Policy Center, suggest that government officials abandon the dream of developing usable web sites, and instead focus on providing raw public data such asUnfurl
Notes"What's Snackr? It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window. "Unfurl
Notes"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."Unfurl
Notes"Then all thatâs left is to cron it to run daily, and point your favorite RSS reader at the feed. Voila! Youâre on top of exactly how old your kid is, and quickly on your way to becoming Parent of the Year."Unfurl
Notes"With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called âlocal feedsâ for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."Unfurl
Notes"Over the past couple of years, I eventually got to the point where I would have something like 200-odd feeds subscribed and yet only 60 or so new items a day â the magic resided in a companion script that did Bayesian classification of that veritable fFeedUnfurl
Notes"weâve got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns."Unfurl
Notes"Taking this information it is pretty easy to build a viewer that allows people to click through all your presentations without having to leave your site."Unfurl
Notes"Filip has his RSS feed set up to include daily summaries of his del.icio.us activity. But I already get that data through my network feed. I just want his regular blog posts."Unfurl
Notes"The Pipes team spent a hectic 24 hours as part of the recent internal Y! hack day (video coming soon) creating an iPhone interface for Pipes."Unfurl
Notes"Readeroo is a simple Firefox plugin that lets you "queue up" articles you might not have the time to read now, and then access them later (the name comes from "Reader" and "Queue"). It is powered by del.icio.us."Unfurl
Notes"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"Unfurl
Notes"A few weeks ago I was bitching to Miker and Diego about Gregarious, the PHP based news reader we use and how insane it is to try to customize. It's one of those "classic" PHP apps which is just written by monkeys."Unfurl
Notes"I've created a custom journal style that lets you subscribe to your LiveJournal Friends page in your favorite RSS/Atom news-reader application (Safari, NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, etc.)"Unfurl
Notes"For Firefox 2, only the application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed, application/atom+xml, and application/rss+xml MIME types are supported. All values have the same effect, and the registered handler will receive feeds in all Atom and RSS versions."Unfurl
Notes"The Web Service module POSTs the items in a pipe in JSON format to an external web service. This allows developers to extend the functionality Pipes offers to do whatever they need. The original items are replaced by the web services JSON or RSS responseUnfurl
Don't change my Google Reader backlash
River2 1.0
DirCaster :: "Instant RSS!" :: RSS Broadcasting from a Directory: Podcasting, VODcasting, and more!
Searching across websites with OpenSearch | StressFree
Where's your data? (Scripting News)
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks
Full text in RSS? (Scripting News)
Snackr: an RSS ticker for Windows/Mac/Linux built using Adobe AIR and Flex.
The Tao of Mac - An update on my RSS setup
Identity Hub (WebSeitz/wikilog)
