Re: craigslist RSS feeds

["dror" <dror@zapatec.com>]

--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, Mark Fletcher <markf@w...> wrote:
> dror wrote:
> 
> >Yeah,
> >
> >I noticed that too. Doesn't look like they have a central list of
all
> >the feeds, which would be useful. Still, it's very cool.
> >
> >  
> >
> The problem with Craiglist's feeds, or at least the ones I've
subscribed 
> to (computers for sale) are that:
> 
> - They're capped at 15 entries. Unless you're fetching the feed
every 15 
> minutes, this could cause you to miss some items posted to the
website

The way we handle this issue is with an adaptive polling mechanism so
that sites that publish often are polled more often. Got us in
trouble with slashdot, but in my mind that's more an issue with their
policies than how we do thing.

Still, we might miss items since 15 minutes is our minimum.

> - They only contain titles. It'd be nice if they syndicated the
entire post.
> 

Possibly cause they want to include things like terms of use, and site
 wide links which would be a little harder to include in the
syndicated  post.

> Other than that, they're great.
> 

Agreed.

> 
> Mark
> --
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