Google Ajax Feeds API Not Working for Reddit RSS Feed

[Mike Smith]

I'm having trouble using the Google Ajax Feeds API for getting Reddit's RSS feed.

This works:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&output=json_xml&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F.rss

but it has stale data from several days ago.  I heard that you can put in some random characters to break the cache so I tried to use the "limit=10" querystring you can put in the reddit feed (ie. http://www.reddit.com/.rss?limit=10)

But when I try this (using encoding), it doesn't work and gives me an error (Feed could not be loaded):

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=10&output=json_xml&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F.rss%3Flimit%3D20

What am I doing wrong?  I've been pulling my hair out for 2 hours.

Thanks for the help.

Mike

[Wet Coast Life]

Same for me and only the Reddit feed seems to be an issue out of the 8 RSS feeds i check. Same issue occurred in the summer and eventually started working after a couple weeks and not much the end user can do to resolve this. Here's that thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-ajax-search-api/JqzRwR1Gmjo/discussion

[Wet Coast Life]

quick update. My feed started working as of this comment with no changes on my part. Maybe yours is working now?

[Mike Smith]

Thanks for the update.  Yes, mine also started working again today.  I'd still love to know how I can send a cache busting random number using the reddit feed.

[Jeremy Geerdes]

var feedUrl = 'http://www.domain.com/my/feed/url' + '?nocache=' + ((new Date).getTime());

Note that you would change the ? to an & if the URL already has a query string started.

jg

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