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I'd like to keep up with current affairs by scanning the newspaper headlines, and I'm not always able to walk past a newspaper stand.
Where can I find this same information online? I'm happy to do the programming work to collate them myself, but it's not clear from newspapers websites which stories are on the front page of the physical paper. Also the website headlines change during the day.
I want to keep abreast of the UK front page stories and be sure I've not missed anything. I'm imagining some kind of API, or something like IFTTT. It must be robust enough not to break when the website HTML changes.
BBC News has an RSS headlines feed for the UK: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml.
The Guardian and the BBC both have numerous other feeds; see: http://www.theguardian.com/help/feeds and http://www.bbc.com/news/10628494.
This may help as well: http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2007/11/top-100-british-newspaper-feed.php
As far as what's in the physical newspaper, I don't think you'll find exactly that. If you check the feed every morning, anything that happens later in the day would be in tomorrow's paper.
You could convert the feeds to JSON (or the like) using Yahoo Pipes, and then process it how you like, or view the RSS feeds in a feedreader.
I tried Google News RSS + feedburner, but the headlines seemed very random and not related to what I see in a browser, e.g. http://news.google.co.uk/news/feeds?output=rss
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I'm looking for a very simple wordpress plugin and after looking through a couple thousand plugins on the wordpress site, I thought maybe someone here can point me in the right direction.
I need to have a small admin section to save simple key value pairs (strings, or ints), and have the ability to pull those values out with a snippet of code in the template.
This data needs to be available site wide (not custom fields within a post).
It's for a non-profit with no budget, so I'm hoping to not have to write something. They just need the ability to go into the back end, and update a few fields (number of donations, total value of donations, and the location of the next school they will be visiting), and those values will be outputted into the header and inside the body of a few pages.
Any ideas?
Thanks very much in advance,
B
For anyone wondering: I found this: http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-website-data/
It works exactly as I needed.
Thanks
Assuming this is just for a select set of options and adding options does not need to be dynamic... You should just create a plugin.
Its very basic stuff, options and setting a admin page.
It doesn't get any easier than that for creating a plugin.
You could probably just Google Creating you first WordPress plugin and any of the tutorials will almost give you the exact code you need.
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I've got a client who is more familiar and confident with the facebook intefrace and would like have her posts from Facebook Business page be autoposted on her Wordpress blog.
Any hints on how to achieve this.
I understand the benefits of getting her using Worpress, but at this stage the lack of WYSIWYG in the WordPress app is holding her back.
Any suggestions of plugins to take Facebook posts to Wordpress would be appreciated.
Facebook does not yet provide real-time updates for stream posts on pages, so you'll need to do something like this:
Set up a cron job to call a script on schedule (once per hour or day probably) that:
Makes an API call to her page's feed to see if any new posts were made since the last poll.
If data is returned, loop through the results and create a new WP post for each FB post.
Just make sure there aren't any plugins installed on WP that autopost to FB.
I haven't ever seen a plugin like this before. There are some plugins out there that make editing Wordpress more user-friendly like Front End Editor. This might be a better solution.
get the rss feed url of your fb page and put it into the feedwordpress plugin
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I am interested in understanding the design principals to use to create the backend for a social networking site. I read up a few resources and found that facebook uses a graph as an underlying data structure where each node could be user/page/album etc. However, just that does not give me a top level view (block diagram or class diagram) on how to go about implementing a few basic features like (all using the graph data structure):
Adding/removing friends
News feed
Messaging
Any pointers on any resources would be great. I am also interested in finding out if a design pattern exists for a social networking site.
Please note that I am not looking for any language specific solution
Have you looked at this StackOverflow Thread
and this and this and this?
Please do a search on SO and you will land with many more! None seem conclusive but that's more to do with the nature of your question!
EDIT: You may find this linked in architecture presentation useful!
Take a look at Observer Design Pattern, I think it is the base of Twitter, Facebook to publish things at the time line of other people that follow someone.
Maybe these book can help you
http://www.designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns/Main_Page
Here you can find a lot of good information about soial Design Pattern
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
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I'm trying to develop a review monitoring system for several iPhone apps I've developed, for instance to email me with the contents of a review when one comes in. (Right now, without an iPhone, I can't even view reviews.) I was hoping there was some online browser for the app store (like cyrket for android), but I am unsure if this exists (I can't find any definitive answer via searching).
Is there any online browser that can be scraped? Or is there at least some API I can use to view app reviews? Or will it come down to sniffing packets and reverse engineering the app store protocol?
Unfortunately, none of the answers here did the trick, and I didn't get the feedback I needed.
However, I found an answer.
One can just go to the rss feed from Apple feedback (in the itunes connect site and replace the word xml with json (for those [like me] who prefer to work with json objects). However note, that XML has 2 extra fields, that are missing in JSON : <updated>(very useful) and <content type="html">.
https://itunes.apple.com/HERE-YOU-PUT-THE-CONTRY-CODE/rss/customerreviews/id=PUT-APP-ID-HERE/sortBy=mostRecent/json
APP ID - you cant get your app id from itunsconnect in the view details tab.
country codes - like il for israel, it for italy and etc.
For example, in my case the link was -
https://itunes.apple.com/il/rss/customerreviews/id=567630281/sortBy=mostRecent/xml
I hope this helps.
I know this question is probably out of date, but I found an EXCELLENT resource http://blog.manbolo.com/2012/09/10/useful-itunes-web-services outlining the various APIs that are available for querying iTunes data, INCLUDING a mechanism for querying app reviews, e.g.
https://itunes.apple.com/rss/customerreviews/id=400274934/xml
We had the same issues, and since we have 7 apps in the App Store, visiting the store pages wasn't really an option. So we built a tool that we recently released that you might find useful: https://launchkit.io/reviews/
It emails you all new reviews and posts them to your teams Slack channel.
This post outlines building such a "scraper" using curl. It also gathers international reviews, which is difficult to do just using iTunes:
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/08/scraping-appstore-reviews.html
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Most wiki software I've presents lots of "features" on their pages. This is fine for desktop users, but is annoying when using an iPhone or other mobile device. I'd prefer pages that just had the content, along with maybe an Edit button and a Search button. The editors are also often too fancy for mobile users; a simple multi-line edit field would be better for mobile users than a bunch of formatting controls.
What is a good wiki package for mobile users?
W2 by Steven Frank (of Panic, makers of Transmit) is awesome.
It's totally stripped down for iPhone--just the essentials.
It supports markdown and basic Wiki-style formatting. https://github.com/panicsteve/w2wiki
That page has a link to a demo site.
I find the wiki in Fogbugz to be very good using it with the iPhone.
It is very easy to override the mediawiki skins with your own. You could remove whatever you want to without much of a problem.