Re: craigslist RSS feeds
"dror" <[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], Mark Fletcher <markf@w...> wrote: > dror wrote: > > >Yeah, > > > >I noticed that too. Doesn't look like they have a central list of all > >the feeds, which would be useful. Still, it's very cool. > > > > > > > The problem with Craiglist's feeds, or at least the ones I've subscribed > to (computers for sale) are that: > > - They're capped at 15 entries. Unless you're fetching the feed every 15 > minutes, this could cause you to miss some items posted to the website The way we handle this issue is with an adaptive polling mechanism so that sites that publish often are polled more often. Got us in trouble with slashdot, but in my mind that's more an issue with their policies than how we do thing. Still, we might miss items since 15 minutes is our minimum. > - They only contain titles. It'd be nice if they syndicated the entire post. > Possibly cause they want to include things like terms of use, and site wide links which would be a little harder to include in the syndicated post. > Other than that, they're great. > Agreed. > > Mark > -- > Mark Fletcher > Bloglines > http://www.bloglines.com Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.fastbuzz.com http://www.zapatec.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/