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July 28, 2004

More Yahoo! RSS Feeds

Over the last month I've noticed that Yahoo! News has added RSS feeds for some of their categories' subcategories. Check out their main RSS page.

One reason I'm posting about this now is that they just recently diversified their sports-related feeds, potentially making the feeds I've been generating through hourly page-scrapes of Yahoo's news pages obsolete, which is fine with me! I'd encourage anyone grabbing my NFL or NHL feeds (you know who you are) to switch over the appropriate Yahoo feeds and see how they work for you.

Posted by Alex Harden on July 28, 2004 3:45 PM |

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So far, the new NFL feed doesn't look even as content-rich as the NFL content that's in their main sports feed: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/sports.

Disappointing; I guess I'll leave my scraped feed online until they decide to improve.

Posted by: aharden | July 29, 2004 1:23 PM

I switched to Yahoo's before work this morning. I'll have to switch it back this evening.

Posted by: Scotbuff | July 29, 2004 1:35 PM

I don't know if it makes a difference, but the NFL-specific feed is being served from the sports.yahoo.com site. Perhaps it has different admins than the main news feeds. Some of the Yahoo feeds have a ton of items in them.

I'm going to use it for a while. Perhaps if they start seeing hits they'll know we're using it and may improve it.

If anything, this prompted me to upgrade to a newer version of MT-RSSFeed; I wanted to begin including the feed's image since Yahoo's TOS for the feed requested it. I needed a newer version of MT-RSSFeed than I was using to get that going.

Posted by: aharden | July 29, 2004 2:51 PM

I'll leave it set to the Yahoo feed too. Thanks for providing the other feed over the past year, that feed certainly provided me with quite a bit of news I would of missed otherwise.

Posted by: Scotbuff | July 29, 2004 6:50 PM

Well, I'll leave my feeds online if you want to switch back. We'll know how good the official Yahoo feed will be once the season gets started.

Posted by: aharden | July 29, 2004 7:11 PM

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