Beta 2 Online and Testing
A new beta version of FeedBlendr is now online at http://beta.feedblendr.com so please check it out. This version adds/updates:
- Improved date-sorting
- OPML output (and improved OPML handling on import/blend creation)
- In-linking (allows you to pre-fill the Blendr homepage with details via a link)
- The integrated feed-reader now supports embedded media players for videos and audio!
- JSON output
- Improved handling of source feed errors
- Some good info on the Developers Page
- Lots of smaller bug fixes
Please try it out and again – let me know how it goes!
February 21st, 2007 at 2:50 am
Hey, dude!
The beta version is quite poor on extracting content from Blogger (blogspot.com). The links that it creates doesn’t even lead to the original content, but to some useless non-formated crap.. Give it a test yourself and you’ll see what I meen. Just a tip.
February 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
Hi John – perhaps you could give me some specific examples of what you’re doing/trying to blend so I could look into it?
I’ve done a number of tests using BlogSpot (old and new) feeds and they all seem to work properly, and the links appear correct. I’ve just double-checked and it still appears to be the case (see http://beta.feedblendr.com/subscribe/162 for an example).
Could you give me some more details of what you’re trying to blend please?
Thanks
February 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Hello, again,
when I checked the source code for the RSS-version of the feed you created (not the Atom one) i saw that the beta-version generates more junk-code. For instance, you can find three (not two) tags in every … tag, and only one of the contains the actuall link to the blog post. This could cause serious confusion for feed aggregators and xml-extractors – and for my feed program.
February 21st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Ah now I see what you mean – thank you for pointing that out. Most of my attention has actually been on ensuring the Atom version is correct, because that is my preferred format. I’ll take a look at it to see what’s going on there, but I think I know what it is.
Thanks.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Hi,
the pleasure is all mine, I hope you’ll manage to fix it – cuz Feedburner is my new “second life” :D. I don’t know how Paypal functions or operates, I’ve only heard about it, but I’ll learn and I’ll send you some cash to support your great work.
Chears!
February 21st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Feedburner?? ppffff, I ment Feedblendr.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
John – the issue you pointed out is somewhat handled now. Basically what happens is that BlogSpot includes a number of link elements, because they are also used in their Atom API. Now, if you export your blend as RSS then the Atom-specific links should all be namespaced properly for atom use, so they appear as atom:link, rather than just link.
Hope that fixes your problems!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:02 am
I simply cannot get this to work with blogger beta. Same problem as John mentioned, I end up getting links into the posts that look like this:
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5005965666877496170.post-2649460145176294514
May 18th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
bike commuter – can you please provide a sample URL that I can use to reproduce this problem? That way I can actually see what’s going on and try to fix it. Sounds like the “id” of a post is incorrectly being interpreted as the “link” for it.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I ´m using feedblendr .. but, I think feedblendr has a few features .. and feedburner have more options, included feedblendr features.
I want to find more useful tools to my blog. I´ll checking your updates feactures. Good luck guys –!
Manu