Re: RSS Querys

[Alberto Ruiz <arc gulic org>]

Thomas Wood wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2006, at 7:59 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've spent this weekend writing a scrapper of the Wallpaper request 
> > on art.gnome.org to build an rss with the wallpapers as <enclosure 
> > .../>, the same tag that podcasts uses for the mp3/ogg/whatever, 
> > which is the standard tag for multimedia attachments on items, an 
> > example of the generated rss can be found here:
> >
> > http://synaptia.net/~arc/rss.xml
> >
> > I've also developed a prototype application written in python that 
> > downloads the rss it parses (with pilgrim's feedparser.py) and show 
> > you a list of the wallpapers, the aplication SyBGFeed and the 
> > scrapper SyArtGnomeRSSize can be found here:
> >
> > http://synaptia.net/~arc/syartgnomerssize-0.0.1.tar.gz
> > http://synaptia.net/~arc/sybgfeed-0.0.1.tar.gz
> >
> > The idea behind all this, is to enable, from art.gnome.org (and then 
> > try to standarize it to see it on gnome-look.org and others sites) 
> > some kind of rss standarization for theming stuff.
>
> The enclosure tag looks like a good idea to me if it means we can drop 
> the html from our rss feed. Do most rss readers support the tag and 
> display it in an item? How could we deal with preview images?
I don't tried to use readers for the rss, what I had in mind while I did 
the rss is use standard  elements of the rss spec to  allow my client 
program  to  make  "dynamic theming", I wasn't thinking about common rss 
readers, anyway, I think that make it work with standard readers is an 
extra point.

Enclosure is the standard way for publishing attachments items, people 
who know more about rss than me, told me that it is not recommended have 
more than one enclosure for item, so the preview image is something that 
need to be discussed.  I don't think that html in description is a good 
idea either, because, I would need to use gecko or gtkhtml to render, 
with the loose of the treeview or any other standard widget features. So 
I'm open to suggestions.

> > So, I'm asking for some kind of rss-on-demand script to get the 
> > lastest [App Themes|Wallpapers|MCity Themes|...], or the popular 
> > ones, etc... something like this:
> >
> > http://art.gnome.org/rssapi.php?class=wallpaper&sort=lastest&count=10&resolution=1600x1200 
> >
> >
> > In order to generate an rss which has the lastest 10 1600x1200's 
> > wallpapers.
> >
> > Of course, resolution thing wouldn't be needed for gtk themes for 
> > example.
> >
> > Right now I'm generating the rss with the scrapper, so if the 
> > webmaster[s] can write something like this I'd be very happy so I can 
> > spent more time developing the other prototypes (metacity, gtk...) 
> > and less time with the scrapper.
> >
> > Suggestion, comments and patches are welcome.
>
> I had some notes on a standard 'api' we might be able to implement. 
> I'll dig them up so you can give some feed back.
>
> -Thomas