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#11 RSS feed error?
hi, i poked around on some of the forum comments on fixing this, and i can't seem to get this to work. it is still reporting the RSS feed error.
ERROR: Unable to get the RSS link from page http://blogs.myspace.com/flitzanu: Cannot find the 'rss' link on the blog page.
is there somewhere i needed to set up an RSS feed before using this program?
error log on export
The new MySpace page layout has broken the program. The error is deeper than just the RSS link error. Even if I fix that (looks like MySpace doesn't offer RSS any longer), I can't figure out any way to extract all the blog entries. Previously the program detected the "Older Posts" link and moved from one page to the next, extracting blogs as it went. The new layout doesn't have anything like this; it looks like it's loading older blogs via an AJAX call on the "More" button on the bottom of the page. I can't do this in Java, which only implements Get and Post calls to a URL.
If you have any ideas, please let me know. Otherwise, stay tuned as I figure out how to proceed. Thanks!
Solutions I've considered so far: embed a browser in the program. I don't believe this is viable since I can't seem to find a embed-able 100% java browser that is new enough to do all the AJAX stuff I need. The one I tried (Lobo) wasn't supported by MySpace; it literally came back and told me to use a newer browser.
I've considered grabbing the source code to an open source browser like Chromium and using that as a code base. However, that seems like serious overkill.
I'm toying with the idea of moving the program to a Firefox add-on. This would allow the user to hit the More button until all blogs are visible then use the add-on to extract everything visible on the page.
MySpace added the RSS link back onto the blog page. I'm sorry if this is redundant information, I see by your posts that they changed a lot and it is a more complicated issue. I just want to say that I value your work here very much, I can't tell you how sorry I am that I didn't find this before they changed everything up.
Hi. I just found out about this project yesterday, but I been looking for a program to do this, and I also am a professional web developer so I wanted to try and offer my help/input (as I was almost coming to the conclusion I would have to attempt to make my own program to do this, until I found this project and glad it was still active).
I think the Firefox add-on seems like the most likely way to get this done unless MySpace makes this process easier. I also saw the RSS feed is now available (adding "/rss" to blog URLs), however it seems to be very minimal. It only seems to show one "page" (a few posts), and does not show the full content, only a short excerpt. I do not know if someone can find a way to add URL parameters to expand this rss feed. I couldn't figure out how.