Re: Notification events for google searches - searchalert.net

I added support for BloggerAPI last night. So www.searchalert.net supports
sending MetaweblogAPI, BloggerAPI, plain text and RSS 0.91.
Weird thing - BloggerAPI doesn't have a slot for 'title' of the post. Lots
of inane excuses from Pyra why they don't support MetaweblogAPI. Dude - its
just text....

Next step - point a bunch of search results at a mod-pubsub hosted topic &
figure out what text format to send for a list of links with titles. NOt
sure if XML is appropriate for the level of clients typically connected - is
there a standard header to indicate content-type of a message?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asynch Messaging" <[email protected]>
To: "Joyce Park" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Notification events for google
searches - searchalert.net


> The Web UI captures search strings into MySQL.
> A background task processes each search and does a request to Google (for
> both web searches and news searches). The response is scanned for links.
> Each link is added to the DB (if it doesn't already exist) and associated
> with the search - each link is part of a 'collection' of results.
>
> Each user is 'subscribed' to the results of the search. If the results
> change (links are added), then an event is sent to the destination that is
> subscribed (either email or web URL). The event is formatted first, via a
> hacked up template language.
>
> Essentially, searchalert.net manages subscriptions between two Web
resources
> & provides formatting in between.
> For example, the following resource is 'results for the search for
> mod-pubsub'
> http://www.searchalert.net/searchalert/results.jsp?queryId=685
>
> I have routed changes for this resource (such as a link being added) to
the
> following resource (which is a blog)
> http://www.topiczero.com/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi
>
> (The annoying thing is that the destination (the blog) cannot be specified
> via a URL. I had to hack in a 'blogId' into the content of the message
when
> all I really wanted was to append a list of links to a known blog. Fookin
> xml-rpc dunderheads.)
>
> The message format uses this template:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <methodCall>
>  <methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>
>  <params>
>   <param><value><sa.destination.extra1></value></param>
>   <param><value><sa.destination.username></value></param>
>   <param><value><sa.destination.password></value></param>
>   <param>
>    <value>
>     <struct>
>      <member><name>title</name><value>New links for
> <sa.query></value></member>
>      <member><name>description</name><value>
> <sa.results>
> <a href='<result.link>'><result.title></a><br />
> </sa.results>
> </value></member>
>     </struct>
>    </value>
>   </param>
>   <param><value>true</value></param>
>  </params>
> </methodCall>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joyce Park" <[email protected]>
> To: "Asynch Messaging" <[email protected]>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Notification events for google
> searches - searchalert.net
>
>
> > Cool Mike!  It craps out if you neglect the "www" in
www.searchalert.net,
> but
> > otherwise it looks good.  How does it work?  JP
> >
> >
> > --- Asynch Messaging <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I've updated my searchalert.net app to support posting to a Web
> destination
> > > in addition to an email destination.
> > > Currently it supports three formats, but adding another one is pretty
> > > trivial - I just need to create a template.
> > > The format supported are WeblogAPI, RSS0.91 and plain text.
> > >
> > > If you want to hook up an event source for results from google
searches,
> you
> > > can use www.searchalert.net and use the 'advanced' subscribe button,
> then
> > > create a new destination & subscribe to a search.
> > >
> > > Here's an example blog with search results for 'amazon web service'
(it
> also
> > > receives results for 'knownow')
> > > http://www.topiczero.com/blogs/
> > >
> > > Let me know if you try to use it & have any problems.
> >
>
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