Re: Akademy talks videos

On Monday 04 October 2010 09:29:14 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2010 14:10:27 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2010 14:00:11 James Cain wrote:
> > > Since we hope to keep the Youtube channel updated regularly, I would
> > > like it if we could link Youtube channel content the same way; however
> > > I do not see an RSS feed through Youtube (I think they want registered
> > > users to subscribe internally...)
> > 
> > There is one: http://ur1.ca/1vtjo (the actual url is very long, with
> > various parameters appended many of which are probably unnecessary but I
> > haven't played with it yet). It shows up in Konq and Firefox with their
> > little rss feed symbol, but you're right youtube don't seem to publicise
> > it in the web page.
> > 
> > I haven't yet got around to adding the feed to Facebook, but that's what
> > I was going to use. Maybe this weekend (but I've been writing 'maybe
> > this weekend' a lot in the last few days to various people...)
> 
> Well, I had a look but Facebook only allows to syndicate one feed. So we'd
> need to combine feeds and then point Facebook at that.
> 
Which is actually not that difficult... I found a simple php script to combine 
feeds and set up a test combining the Dot and YouTube:

http://test.asinen.org/rss/rss2

Will need some more testing and securing - I already had to tweak the script a 
bit to make it compatible with youtube urls - but in principle something like 
that could be used, for Facebook at least.

Stu

 
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