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By: mikexstudios: Xanga RSS Fixer

mikexstudios: Xanga RSS Fixer — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:09:03 +0000

[...] mikeXstudios (mikexstudios) wrote,@ 2004-10-03 11:40:00 Xanga RSS Fixer Being immensely annoyed at Xanga’s inability to create valid RSS feeds, I happened upon Josh Staiger’s Perl solution to fixing the Xanga RSS Feed. However, I could not run his perl script on this server (perhaps for missing modules or security reasons). Therefore, I decided to port it over to PHP and host the script on this site.If you want to grab valid RSS feeds for your RSS reader, you can filter Xanga feeds through the PHP script here. Or you can craft the url yourself like this:http://www.mikexstudios.com/labs/XangaRssFixer.php?user=InsertUsernameHereOtherwise, you can download the source code, make modifications, or perhaps run the script on your own server.On a sidenote: Xanga is really a horrible blogging service. I don’t see why people wouldn’t use LiveJournal or Blogger!View this post on my blog(Post a new comment) skilly 2004-10-19 11:45 pm UTC (link) I agreeeeee~ Xanga is really stinky! X__x;(Reply to this) [...]

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Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:34:05 +0000

[...] the eXternal mind Blog Archive Xanga RSS Fixer There is no practical use for this script anymore. To access Xanga RSS feeds use this format: http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=INSERTUSERNAMEHERE and send this url to your favorite RSS feed reader [...]

By: the eXternal mind » Blog Archive » Xanga returns valid RSS

the eXternal mind » Blog Archive » Xanga returns valid RSS — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:47:57 +0000

[...] NOTE: As of October 26th, Xanga has finally corrected their RSS feeds! Therefore, those of you who were using my Xanga RSS Fixer port of Josh Staiger’s script will now receive XML errors since it no longer works for Xanga’s new RSS. There is no practical use for this script anymore. To access Xanga RSS feeds use this format: http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=INSERTUSERNAMEHERE and send this url to your favorite RSS feed reader. Thanks for using Xanga RSS Fixer! [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:37:14 +0000

Hi divergentdave,

I think you’re right! Xanga seems to have finally fixed their RSS feeds which now makes the RSS fixer solution I ported useless.

Thanks for giving me this tip!

By: divergentdave

divergentdave — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:06:11 +0000

I think Xanga changed their RSS files, because your screen scraper is spewing invalid XML.

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誰在乎誰？ » xanga 個 rss 廢的 — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:17:47 +0000

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By: loudestnoise » Blog Archive » master of RSS

loudestnoise » Blog Archive » master of RSS — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:57:40 +0000

[...] I have finally fixed up all my RSS feeds from every blog/journal I read. I even got all those pesky Xangas to work correctly using this nifty script. I am taking full advantage of Sarari RSS and read all my feeds from my browser instead of an external app. life is splendid when you don’t have to go to every page you want to read (unless you want to ) [...]

By: david

david — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:41:10 +0000

Nevermind, I guess patience is a virtue, it seems to be fine after the first time I load them and new entries are posted.

By: david

david — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:36:48 +0000

I’m runing your script on my server and I was wondering if when you create the feed for the first time it seems to mark all the delivery dates of the current day instead of when they actually were posted which messes up my feed readers. Is there a way around this? Thanks for the script anyway. or at least the port.

By: mikexstudios

mikexstudios — Mon, 30 May 2005 18:09:19 +0000

Hey! Go to his site (http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2004/09/xanga_rss_fixer.html) and thank him ^^;.

By: Daniel Gardner

Daniel Gardner — Mon, 30 May 2005 18:03:53 +0000

Thank you Josh Staiger - you’re my hero. :^)

By: mikexstudios

mikexstudios — Mon, 30 May 2005 17:59:57 +0000

You’re welcome! Although, you should actually be thanking Josh Staiger since he created the version that I ported to PHP. I actually think of Xanga slightly better these days mainly because they have some functionality that other services don’t.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Daniel Gardner

Daniel Gardner — Mon, 30 May 2005 15:55:13 +0000

Thank you! You saved our Xangas (as putrid as they may be). We are in your debt.

By: mikexstudios

mikexstudios — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:51:25 +0000

No problem ^^;. Thanks for the comment.

By: Ben Fulton

Ben Fulton — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:54:27 +0000

Yes, this appears to be the best working version available. Thanks for that.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:31:30 +0000

thanks SOOO much for this! i will be posting a link to this wonderful handy tool very shortly. -suzanne

By: mikeXstudios

mikeXstudios — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 18:46:48 +0000

Thanks Joe for the comment. The credit really goes to Josh Staiger–I just pulled a PHP port. I had the same situation with my friends too: most of them are Xanga users. I hope the script works well for you!

By: Joe White

Joe White — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:46:29 +0000

Thanks much for this script. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, since my friends are fairly entrenched in their xanga use. I’ll mirror this on my server, so as not to leech your bandwidth unneccesarily.

By: jude

jude — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 05:02:19 +0000

the actual quality of a blog site is pretty irrelivant, its actually just about community. i agree, livejournal and others are significantly superior, however that’s largely useless to most people. i’m faithful to xanga because half of my high school friends started off with it, so we maintain our sites as a group.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:16:23 +0000

Blogger is really good. I would use it if I didn’t have wordpress.

Dave