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aviavia

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Mar 25, 2008, 8:25:45 AM3/25/08
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Hi,
Sometimes you get this massage with the slide feeds and with another
refresh or two it loads.
Is there any way to set up a longer time for it to try? or any other
idea?
Also is there away to customize the massage?
Thanks.

Ben Lisbakken

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Mar 25, 2008, 1:08:42 PM3/25/08
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Aviavia --

Can you post a link so we can check out your page and feed?

-Ben

aviavia

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Mar 25, 2008, 1:41:23 PM3/25/08
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Well, in my websites there are feeds and sometimes they load and some
times a refresh is needed.
http://www.nukedesigners.com
http://www.nukenotes.com
Thanks.

On Mar 25, 7:08 pm, "Ben Lisbakken" <lisba...@google.com> wrote:
> Aviavia --
>
> Can you post a link so we can check out your page and feed?
>
> -Ben
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:25 AM, aviavia <googleale...@nukedesigners.com>

Ben Lisbakken

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Mar 25, 2008, 4:05:19 PM3/25/08
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Aviavia --

I can't get the feeds to *not* load :)

How long has this been happening for?  How can I reproduce it?

-Ben

aviavia

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Mar 25, 2008, 5:08:55 PM3/25/08
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Weird. I'm not sure when it started because I got used to it. I know
for sure that on a friend's house the same problem happens both in
those above websites or in Igoogle pages with those slides. maybe to
reproduce it you will need to upload a few to Igoogle tab to make it
heavy?.

On Mar 25, 10:05 pm, "Ben Lisbakken" <lisba...@google.com> wrote:
> Aviavia --
>
> I can't get the feeds to *not* load :)
>
> How long has this been happening for? How can I reproduce it?
>
> -Ben
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, aviavia <googleale...@nukedesigners.com>

aviavia

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Apr 16, 2008, 12:04:52 PM4/16/08
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I think it's working fine now!. At last for the last one hour or so.
No more "feed could not be loaded".
Thanks a lot! (hope I'm not wrong).

Ben Lisbakken

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Apr 16, 2008, 3:04:39 PM4/16/08
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Aviavia --

Thanks for reporting that it's working.  We made some changes on our side and we're hoping that they made the difference for everyone.  If anyone is still experiencing problems with slideshows saying "feed could not be loaded" please post here.

Thanks,
Ben Lisbakken

Scribbly

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Apr 18, 2008, 5:18:05 AM4/18/08
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I just tested my problematic site, and it's just worked!! So that's
looking good...

On Apr 17, 5:04 am, "Ben Lisbakken" <lisba...@google.com> wrote:
> Aviavia --
> Thanks for reporting that it's working. We made some changes on our side
> and we're hoping that they made the difference for everyone. If anyone is
> still experiencing problems with slideshows saying "feed could not be
> loaded" please post here.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Lisbakken
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, aviavia <googleale...@nukedesigners.com>

aviavia

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Apr 19, 2008, 2:33:24 AM4/19/08
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Hi,
The problem still occurs with such feeds:
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/all?kind=photo&q=%20skyscraper
Some work and some. It's not critical, but just to report.
Thanks.

aviavia

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Apr 19, 2008, 6:37:18 AM4/19/08
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Picasa's feeds are generating a feed with 500 items.
Photobuckets' are generating a feed with 100 items.
Flickr's are generating a feed with 20 items.
I think that's the big difference.? (which makes it hardly work for
Picasa's feeds. 25 times longer comparing flickr and Picasa.)


On Apr 19, 9:33 am, aviavia <googleale...@nukedesigners.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> The problem still occurs with such feeds:http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/all?kind=photo&q=%20skyscr...

aviavia

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Apr 19, 2008, 7:09:45 AM4/19/08
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For example, this feed has only 26 images, so there's no problem with
it:
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/all?kind=photo&q=%20john%20coltrane

Hank

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May 28, 2008, 8:01:23 AM5/28/08
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I'm trying to get the Google AJAX API to read XML from the digg
ListStories API (http://apidoc.digg.com/ListStories) to get a feed
from a specific digg account. I've done this successfully with other
feeds, but not with the digg API. Here's the URL to the feed using the
digg API:

http://services.digg.com/user/photomask/submissions?count=10&appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pozzetta.com%2fproducts

When I try to use this feed with the Google API, I always get the
"feed could not be loaded" error. Here's my code; its the Google
sample code wiht few changes (note that the appkey parameter is not
the google appkey, but something required by digg, see
http://apidoc.digg.com/ApplicationKeys)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/
>
<title>Google AJAX Feed API - Simple Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></
script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("feeds", "1");
function initialize() {
var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("http://services.digg.com/user/
photomask/submissions?count=10&appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pozzetta.com
%2fproducts");
feed.setResultFormat(google.feeds.Feed.XML_FORMAT);
feed.load(function(result) {
var container = document.getElementById("feed");
if (!result.error) {
var items =
result.xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("story");
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
var titleElement = items[i].getElementsByTagName("title")
[0];
var title = titleElement.firstChild.nodeValue;
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(title));
container.appendChild(div);
}
}
});
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="feed"></div>
</body>
</html>

Hank

jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"]

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May 28, 2008, 8:31:30 AM5/28/08
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The digg feed is not valid RSS or Atom. Since the Google Feeds API
only parses Atom or RSS feeds, it can't load the feed you're wanting.

Jeremy R. Geerdes
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Vikram Kalmegh

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Oct 2, 2013, 1:52:06 PM10/2/13
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I know this is a pretty old post and I could not find a solution anywhere else and hence posting it here. 

I have been working on the AJAX API's. The sample example provided on the playground site works for me pretty good. But when I use the xml from the RSS feed hosted on one of my dev servers, I get a message saying 'Feed could not be loaded'. I can access the feed in all the major browsers by using the URL in the address bar. I also validated the RSS. Just to be make sure that my RSS is not buggy I copied the contents from one of the major news RSS feed providers to create a xml file and hosted on my server. I can access the feed from the browsers but when I mention the same URL in the 'GFdynamicFeedControl ' function of the AJAX API's I get the error. 

The NET tab on the firebug console do not show any file access errors(200 OK), also there are no error on the javascript code used. 

I would really appreciate if any help is provided. Let me know if I need to provide any more information to debug this problem. 

Regards,
Vikram .. 

Jeremy Geerdes

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Oct 3, 2013, 7:58:51 AM10/3/13
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It could be a number of issues. The most likely possible causes in my mind are the following:

(a) the feed is not accessible to Google's servers. This is essential because the Feeds API does not pull the information directly from the server. Rather, it contacts Google's servers, which pull and parse the feed, transform it into a normalized JSON/JavaScript response, and send it back to the client.

(b) your server is slow to respond. This can be caused by a number of things, but the most common (in my experience) is latency caused by server processing (i.e., the feed is generated dynamically, and the underlying script takes a moment to run). The Feeds API's crawler has a very short timeout; it doesn't sit around waiting for the feed if it isn't returned almost immediately.

(c) the feed is not valid RSS or Atom.

At any rate, it's tough for us to say what's happening without being able to see you page and feed. If you could post a link to the page where you're seeing a problem, working or not, we'll take a look.

jg


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