Re: RSS Feed returning very old posts

[Jeremy Geerdes]

This is a recurring issue in the Feeds API which has been mentioned a number of times on this group. Strangely, requesting historical entries helps, but it's still not a perfect solution. The best workaround that we have at this time is to add a cache-busting parameter to the feed's url. So in your script, if you have a line similar to this

var feedUrl = 'http://www.napls.us/feed'

you would change it to something like this

var feedUrl = 'http://www.napls.us/feed?nocache=' + (new Date).getTime()

Be advised, though, this will compel the API to pull the feed every time you request it. So if your app is making multitudes of requests, you could cause problems for the school. I.e., be nice.

jg

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Lonnie Morgan <lonnie...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been reading up on the Feed API and hit a very weird issue. At first I thought it was a cache issue, but I've tried a few different cache busting options and still cannot get the most current posts from my kids' school site to show up via the API call. 

Here is the feed link:

http://www.napls.us/feed

Pulling this up in Chrome works just fine. But running through the Playground with the feed brings back posts more than a year old.

I've bounced around the internets looking for similar issues and this one has me stumped. 

Any thoughts...

NOTE: I believe that the school is using Google Sites. Not sure if that has any impact on the question.

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[Lonnie Morgan]

Thanks jg. I gave that a try and it's still having issues. When I try it in the Google Playground, it says "Loading...", but it fails.

var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("http://www.napls.us/high/feed?nocache=" + (new Date).getTime());

I checked for an error message:

alert('err# ' + result.error.code + ' error: ' + result.error.message);

...got this back:

err# 404 error: invalid result data

Very strange. 

On Monday, January 28, 2013 8:41:35 AM UTC-5, jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"] wrote:

This is a recurring issue in the Feeds API which has been mentioned a number of times on this group. Strangely, requesting historical entries helps, but it's still not a perfect solution. The best workaround that we have at this time is to add a cache-busting parameter to the feed's url. So in your script, if you have a line similar to this

var feedUrl = 'http://www.napls.us/feed'

you would change it to something like this

var feedUrl = 'http://www.napls.us/feed?nocache=' + (new Date).getTime()

Be advised, though, this will compel the API to pull the feed every time you request it. So if your app is making multitudes of requests, you could cause problems for the school. I.e., be nice.

jg

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Lonnie Morgan <lonnie...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been reading up on the Feed API and hit a very weird issue. At first I thought it was a cache issue, but I've tried a few different cache busting options and still cannot get the most current posts from my kids' school site to show up via the API call. 

Here is the feed link:

http://www.napls.us/feed

Pulling this up in Chrome works just fine. But running through the Playground with the feed brings back posts more than a year old.

I've bounced around the internets looking for similar issues and this one has me stumped. 

Any thoughts...

NOTE: I believe that the school is using Google Sites. Not sure if that has any impact on the question.

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[Lonnie Morgan]

FYI...

I have semi-traced this to an issue with Wordpress and Google's API. The symptoms that I am seeing have been replicated in Google Reader when reading some RSS feeds from Wordpress. I am going to work with my school's webmaster to try and get it clean.

And probably will have to roll my own reader/parser too. :(