[Web4lib] Including RSSon a webpage

[Sharon Clapp]

I had the same terrible problems with Feed2JS - it was really bad this
summer, so I decided to use an ASP script - RSS2HTML.ASP from ByteScout.
It incorporates the RSS feed from our externally-hosted Wordpress blog
into the body of our "New & Noteworthy" page at
http://www.cslib.org/new.asp. I'll admit that my first attempts to
customize the script almost brought the server to a grinding halt, but I
believe that's because of how little I understood ASP. Now, the script
seems to run fairly well. I have it set to just show the most recent 4
items in the feed, but can change that - as needed. Every once in a
while I notice slowness, but cannot say if it's the WordPress or the
script. Back when our production server seemed to be regularly choking
on another ASP/MSSQL-based app, the ASP page would offer only an error
message. But - since the issue appears to be resolved at the moment - I
think that it didn't have anything to do with the RSS2HTML script. I
don't know if you're in a Win/IIS server environment, but - if you are -
you can probably try this (there is a .NET version, as well). Good
luck,
Sharon C.
 
Sharon Clapp, sclapp at cslib.org 
Web Resources Librarian
Connecticut State Library  
860-424-3617 
http://www.cslib.org ( http://www.cslib.org/ ) 

>>> Ann Hubble <ahubble at ucsc.edu> 12/12/2006 12:33 PM >>>
I tested Feed2JS to host and diplay an RSS feed  on one of our 
library subject web pages. It was extremely easy to do and loved it 
at first. But the feed was near the top of the web page and I 
discovered the web page wouldn't completely load at times when the 
link broke or possibly the server not up. Since my goal was to put 
our latest news items from a blog onto our top library home page, the 
number of times Feed2JS failed (and thus anything below the feed on 
the web page wouldn't load) unacceptable.

I'm going to try again, but using feedsplitter, as we are now testing 
that on our library server. Hope it is more reliable.

-Ann

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At 4:30 PM -0500 12/11/06, Ken Varnum wrote:
>Try Feed2JS (http://www.feed2js.org).  It's javascript that can pull 
>an RSS feed from another server.  You can use feed2js.org's web site 
>to host the application, so all you need to do is include the 
>javascript in your HTML page.
>
>For examples, see my library's home page: 
>http://www.library.tufts.edu/ginn/  (note that I'm running my own 
>copy of the script, but there's no difference other than pride of 
>ownership from using the hosted version).
>
>
>
>----------
>Ken Varnum
>  Associate Librarian & IT Manager
>  Edwin Ginn Library, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
>  160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
>  Tel: 617 627 3826        Fax: 617 627 3736
>  http://www.library.tufts.edu/ginn/
>
>
>On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Mark Costa wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>Has anyone found open code that allows you to include RSS feeds on a
web
>>page? I cannot use PHP, ASP, etc, nor can I use externally hosted
>>javascript.
>>
>>Am I stuck trying to code something like that myself?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>mc
>>
>>--
>>Mark R. Costa, MLS
>>
>>"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man
>>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress
>>depends on the unreasonable man."
>>--- George Bernard Shaw
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