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The feed from raspberrypi is claimed as not being a feed #148

Closed npenin closed 9 years ago

npenin commented 9 years ago

Hi,

I tried https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed/, but feedparser claims it is not a feed. I could not get more information from the error event, event with resume_saxerror.

Any idea ?

Thanks, Nicolas

danmactough commented 9 years ago

@npenin The feed is parsing fine for me, so I suspect that the body you're piping into feedparser is gzipped or something.

npenin commented 9 years ago

that's strange. Here is the output I have :

[ 'https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed' ]
undefined
[Error: Not a feed]
end

for the following code

var feed = new rss({ resume_saxerror: false });

            var request;
            if (urlUtil.parse(url).protocol == 'https:')
                request = https.get(url);
            else
                request = http.get(url);

            request.on('response', function (res)
            {
                var encoding = res.headers['content-encoding']
                console.log(encoding);
                if (encoding == 'gzip')
                {
                    res.pipe(zlib.createGunzip()).pipe(feed)
                } else if (encoding == 'deflate')
                {
                    res.pipe(zlib.createInflate()).pipe(feed)
                } else
                {
                    res.pipe(feed)
                }
            });

            var articles = [];
            feed.on('data', function (item)
            {
                //my item handling
            });
            feed.on('error', function (error)
            {
                console.log(error);
                callback(500, error);
            })
            feed.on('end', function ()
            {
                console.log('end');
                callback(articles);
            });

The strangest thing to me is the encoding header which is undefined. Am I missing something ?

danmactough commented 9 years ago

The strangest thing to me is the encoding header which is undefined

That would indicate no compression. Pretty normal.

Your code works for me:

var rss = require("./");
var http = require("http");
var https = require("https");
var urlUtil = require("url");
var zlib = require("zlib");

var url = "https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed/";
var callback = console.log;
var feed = new rss({ resume_saxerror: false });

            var request;
            if (urlUtil.parse(url).protocol == 'https:')
                request = https.get(url);
            else
                request = http.get(url);

            request.on('response', function (res)
            {
                var encoding = res.headers['content-encoding']
                console.log(encoding);
                if (encoding == 'gzip')
                {
                    res.pipe(zlib.createGunzip()).pipe(feed)
                } else if (encoding == 'deflate')
                {
                    res.pipe(zlib.createInflate()).pipe(feed)
                } else
                {
                    res.pipe(feed)
                }
            });

            var articles = [];
            feed.on('data', function (item)
            {
               articles.push(item); //my item handling
            });
            feed.on('error', function (error)
            {
                console.log(error);
                callback(500, error);
            })
            feed.on('end', function ()
            {
                console.log('end');
                callback(articles);
            });

Output:

undefined
end
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    description: '<p>As an education pioneer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’m on a mission to ensure that all children everywhere have some exposure to computing, whether this comes in the form of digital making, the arts, robotics or computer programming. Recently I’ve been on a brief tour to Australia and Singapore to spread the Raspberry Pi education ethos to as many people as possible.</p>\n<p>Straight after Euro Python in Spain, where Ben Nuttall, James Robinson and I helped to kick start an <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/education-summit-videos-from-europython/">Education Summit</a>, I boarded a flight to Australia via Dubai. The months between June and September are often the busiest for the Foundation team with the northern hemisphere schools on summer break and southern hemisphere schools in the middle of the academic year. There are often lots of outreach opportunities alongside large conferences in the space of a single month.</p>\n<p><b>Brisbane</b></p>\n<p>After around 30 hours (with two stops) I arrived in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and home to <a href="http://pycon-au.org/">Pycon Australia 2015</a>, where I was to give a talk as part of their first ever education mini conference and give a keynote at the main conference. Fellow Python Software Foundation (PSF) board member Nick Coghlan contacted me to attend the education mini conference way back in January, stating:</p>\n<blockquote><p>I would personally be particularly excited to have you attend, as I came up with the idea of the Python in Education miniconf after Dr James Curran&#8217;s presentation last year on the new Australian Digital Curriculum, and his hopes to have Python feature strongly in the implementation of that curriculum.</p></blockquote>\n<p>There are a number of countries around the world which are starting to address the digital skills gap through formal education. In England we have a new Computing curriculum being taught in both primary and secondary schools. In Australia a new Digital Curriculum has been developed, and in some states has already been adopted by forward thinking teachers. Here was an opportunity to work with industry professionals to highlight the changes, and with educators to collaborate and share best practice.</p>\n<p>Nick had curated a brilliant day of talks as part of the education mini conference. This was one of the first Python conferences which was not only well attended by teachers, but where most of the talks were given by teachers! In fact you can watch all the talks which have helpfully been added to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4CJRBY5F1I5vuApyUXp6bLWly1E-b0s">a playlist</a> by the conference organisers. My favourite talk of the day was given by a nervous developer, <a href="http://twitter.com/Caleb_Hattingh">Caleb Hattingh</a>, to a room full of teachers about his experiences trying to teach Python to children at a coding club. It was brutally honest and I think sums up many of the problems educators also face in moving from visual programming languages like Scratch to text based languages like Python.</p>\n<p><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FWlw6SXSb5eU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWlw6SXSb5eU&#038;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FWlw6SXSb5eU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&#038;key=c11abcc1b1e44d61afc42b3ded19bfce&#038;type=text%2Fhtml&#038;schema=youtube" width="500" height="281" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n<p>My other notable talk of the day was given by Katie Bell from <a href="https://groklearning.com/">Grok Learning</a> in which she talks about her work with the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/girlsprogrammingnetwork/">Girls Programming Network</a> in Sydney, the <a href="https://groklearning.com/challenge/">National Computer Science School (NCSS) Challenge</a>, and the <a href="http://www.ncss.edu.au/summer_school/">NCSS summer school</a> where young people spend a few days rapidly prototyping heir own website or embedded electronic device. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Katie before at PyconUK last September and at ISTE this June in Philadelphia with Grok Learning co-founder <a href="http://rp-www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~nicky">Nicky Ringland</a>. Their passion for computing education is phenomenal and can be witnessed in this talk:</p>\n<p><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FgOnnjPQzXg8%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgOnnjPQzXg8&#038;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FgOnnjPQzXg8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&#038;key=c11abcc1b1e44d61afc42b3ded19bfce&#038;type=text%2Fhtml&#038;schema=youtube" width="500" height="281" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n<p>I ended day 1 with my keynote on Raspberry Pi and physical computing, which included a live demo, and started day 2 with a keynote to the entire conference about <a href="https://youtu.be/gaFk0Sya_HI">lessons we’ve learned about teaching children how to program</a>.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Opening keynote from <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pyconau?src=hash">#pyconau</a> <a href="http://t.co/J57Pk5lF0k">pic.twitter.com/J57Pk5lF0k</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Developer Steve (@DeveloperSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeveloperSteve/status/627259756504223744">July 31, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>I’m grateful to Nick Coghlan and the other organisers of PyconAu for their hard work to bring the event together.</p>\n<p><b>Sydney</b></p>\n<p>A short flight from Brisbane brought me to Sydney where I accepted a challenge from new education team member Marc Scott to take a selfie in front of an iconic landmark before setting out on a series of talks and workshops.</p>\n<p><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/aus2-e1439713877141.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-15102 size-medium" src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/aus2-e1439713877141-188x250.jpg" alt="" width="188" height="250" /></a></p>\n<p>I gave a brief demo to <a href="http://ictensw.org.au/2015/07/carrie-anne-philbin-is-coming-to-sydney/">ICT educators of New South Wales</a>  on the first evening at an event where teachers give up their free time to share ideas and practices around teaching ICT and computer science in a state where it is not a formal part of their curriculum. These were inspirational teachers, willing to push what is possible in their classrooms.</p>\n<p>At <a href="https://maas.museum/">the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences</a> at the Powerhouse in Sydney I got the chance to <a href="https://twitter.com/BitScopeDesigns/status/628762691419504644">speak to education specialists and teachers</a> about our work at Raspberry Pi before leading a fruity physical computing workshop. I was able to share fun ideas and meet some fabulous STEM education enthusiasts.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fruity programming with <a href="https://twitter.com/pimoroni">@pimoroni</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/explorerhat?src=hash">#explorerhat</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/picademyau?src=hash">#picademyau</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a>. Lots of fun! <a href="http://t.co/7CAdidRMUS">pic.twitter.com/7CAdidRMUS</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Tulloch (@BitScopeDesigns) <a href="https://twitter.com/BitScopeDesigns/status/628839167821099012">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>The museum was truly a fabulous space with well equipped resources for schools. I was lucky enough to receive a brief tour of all the facilities like the Mars Lab, a recreation of the Martian surface, and robotics lab which is used to encourage students to use technology to search for life on Mars. Schools are able to connect to the lab and their rovers via the internet, allowing students to program the bots directly. Using the cameras, they can experience what it is like for space engineers. They test rovers there, and I got to meet one.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some of my friends want to be Mars rovers <a href="https://twitter.com/theMarsLab">@theMarsLab</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maasmuseum">@maasmuseum</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="http://t.co/2lckhumUO5">pic.twitter.com/2lckhumUO5</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; peter mahony (@vergeofperil) <a href="https://twitter.com/vergeofperil/status/628810068176146434">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>Whilst in Sydney I visited good friend <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin/status/629191690356686848">Dan Bowen</a>, a <a href="http://casinclude.org.uk/">CAS #include</a> committee member, and some <a href="https://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/SetupRPI.htm">Windows IoT Raspberry Pi</a> developers at Microsoft, where they all showed me their latest work with the operating system and Physical computing on the Pi. I was invited to meet the <a href="http://www.codeclubau.org/">Code Club Australia</a> team who are working with schools across all the territories and training teachers in a bid to give children an opportunity to learn to code. I also found time to speak to girls at two different coding clubs and meet some fans!</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">geek gurl <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> talking technology to girls <a href="https://twitter.com/MosmanHS">@MosmanHS</a> <a href="http://t.co/tNHdT6rNph">pic.twitter.com/tNHdT6rNph</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Geek in Sydney (@GeekinSydney) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekinSydney/status/629137461587804160">August 6, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fan girl moment w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/nickyringland">@nickyringland</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekGurlDiaries">@GeekGurlDiaries</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ozcschat?src=hash">#ozcschat</a> <a href="http://t.co/dTGNjKZwhp">pic.twitter.com/dTGNjKZwhp</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Malyn Mawby (@malynmawby) <a href="https://twitter.com/malynmawby/status/629829297461596161">August 8, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A definite <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fangirl?src=hash">#fangirl</a> moment for me here. It was awesome meeting you <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekGurlDiaries">@GeekGurlDiaries</a> to chat all things <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/raspberrypi?src=hash">#raspberrypi</a>! <a href="http://t.co/Ovlkn3MBxJ">pic.twitter.com/Ovlkn3MBxJ</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Martha Aragon (@diamondsteppe) <a href="https://twitter.com/diamondsteppe/status/628882405412089856">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>There are clearly lots of initiatives in Sydney that parents and educators can tap into from online learning platforms like Grok Learning and the NCSS challenge, to free professional development and workshops from ICTENSW and the MAAS Museum.</p>\n<p><b>Singapore</b></p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to be able to stop in Singapore on my way back to the UK during the nation’s 50th anniversary thanks to the Raspberry Pi team at Broadcom Singapore. I was asked to drop by the office to eat pizza and give a presentation to their engineers about the Raspberry Pi Foundation by <a href="http://www.broadcomfoundation.org/blog/broadcom-foundation/community-hero-jeffrey-jen-hui-chin-brings-raspberry-pi-workshops-to-singaporean-students/">Jeffery Chin</a> who leads the Broadcom Singapore Raspberry Pi team, who provide Raspberry Pi outreach to teachers and students in their spare time.</p>\n<p>I was then taken to <a href="http://www.science.edu.sg/">Singapore’s Science Centre</a> to meet their STEM education specialists and Ministry of Education representatives to discuss Raspberry Pi professional development for teachers and their computing outreach programmes. Before heading out for some of the best dumplings I&#8217;ve ever eaten!</p>\n<div id="attachment_15104" style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/singapore-sci-centre.jpg"><img class="wp-image-15104 size-large" src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/singapore-sci-centre-500x325.jpg" alt="singapore-sci-centre" width="500" height="325" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Singapore Science Centre STEM educators, Ministry of Education representatives and  Broadcom&#8217;s Jeffery Chin &amp; TK Tan</p></div>\n<p>It is one of the many joys of working for the Raspberry Pi Foundation that I get to meet so many inspiring individuals across the globe and to forge partnerships with them as we all embark on this movement to enrich children’s education.</p>\n<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/australia-singapore-education-tour/">Australia &#038; Singapore Pioneering Education Tour</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a>.</p>',
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       '#': '<p>As an education pioneer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’m on a mission to ensure that all children everywhere have some exposure to computing, whether this comes in the form of digital making, the arts, robotics or computer programming. Recently I’ve been on a brief tour to Australia and Singapore to spread the Raspberry Pi education ethos to as many people as possible.</p>\n<p>Straight after Euro Python in Spain, where Ben Nuttall, James Robinson and I helped to kick start an <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/education-summit-videos-from-europython/">Education Summit</a>, I boarded a flight to Australia via Dubai. The months between June and September are often the busiest for the Foundation team with the northern hemisphere schools on summer break and southern hemisphere schools in the middle of the academic year. There are often lots of outreach opportunities alongside large conferences in the space of a single month.</p>\n<p><b>Brisbane</b></p>\n<p>After around 30 hours (with two stops) I arrived in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and home to <a href="http://pycon-au.org/">Pycon Australia 2015</a>, where I was to give a talk as part of their first ever education mini conference and give a keynote at the main conference. Fellow Python Software Foundation (PSF) board member Nick Coghlan contacted me to attend the education mini conference way back in January, stating:</p>\n<blockquote><p>I would personally be particularly excited to have you attend, as I came up with the idea of the Python in Education miniconf after Dr James Curran&#8217;s presentation last year on the new Australian Digital Curriculum, and his hopes to have Python feature strongly in the implementation of that curriculum.</p></blockquote>\n<p>There are a number of countries around the world which are starting to address the digital skills gap through formal education. In England we have a new Computing curriculum being taught in both primary and secondary schools. In Australia a new Digital Curriculum has been developed, and in some states has already been adopted by forward thinking teachers. Here was an opportunity to work with industry professionals to highlight the changes, and with educators to collaborate and share best practice.</p>\n<p>Nick had curated a brilliant day of talks as part of the education mini conference. This was one of the first Python conferences which was not only well attended by teachers, but where most of the talks were given by teachers! In fact you can watch all the talks which have helpfully been added to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs4CJRBY5F1I5vuApyUXp6bLWly1E-b0s">a playlist</a> by the conference organisers. My favourite talk of the day was given by a nervous developer, <a href="http://twitter.com/Caleb_Hattingh">Caleb Hattingh</a>, to a room full of teachers about his experiences trying to teach Python to children at a coding club. It was brutally honest and I think sums up many of the problems educators also face in moving from visual programming languages like Scratch to text based languages like Python.</p>\n<p><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FWlw6SXSb5eU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWlw6SXSb5eU&#038;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FWlw6SXSb5eU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&#038;key=c11abcc1b1e44d61afc42b3ded19bfce&#038;type=text%2Fhtml&#038;schema=youtube" width="500" height="281" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n<p>My other notable talk of the day was given by Katie Bell from <a href="https://groklearning.com/">Grok Learning</a> in which she talks about her work with the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/girlsprogrammingnetwork/">Girls Programming Network</a> in Sydney, the <a href="https://groklearning.com/challenge/">National Computer Science School (NCSS) Challenge</a>, and the <a href="http://www.ncss.edu.au/summer_school/">NCSS summer school</a> where young people spend a few days rapidly prototyping heir own website or embedded electronic device. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Katie before at PyconUK last September and at ISTE this June in Philadelphia with Grok Learning co-founder <a href="http://rp-www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~nicky">Nicky Ringland</a>. Their passion for computing education is phenomenal and can be witnessed in this talk:</p>\n<p><iframe class="embedly-embed" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FgOnnjPQzXg8%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgOnnjPQzXg8&#038;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FgOnnjPQzXg8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&#038;key=c11abcc1b1e44d61afc42b3ded19bfce&#038;type=text%2Fhtml&#038;schema=youtube" width="500" height="281" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n<p>I ended day 1 with my keynote on Raspberry Pi and physical computing, which included a live demo, and started day 2 with a keynote to the entire conference about <a href="https://youtu.be/gaFk0Sya_HI">lessons we’ve learned about teaching children how to program</a>.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Opening keynote from <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pyconau?src=hash">#pyconau</a> <a href="http://t.co/J57Pk5lF0k">pic.twitter.com/J57Pk5lF0k</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Developer Steve (@DeveloperSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeveloperSteve/status/627259756504223744">July 31, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>I’m grateful to Nick Coghlan and the other organisers of PyconAu for their hard work to bring the event together.</p>\n<p><b>Sydney</b></p>\n<p>A short flight from Brisbane brought me to Sydney where I accepted a challenge from new education team member Marc Scott to take a selfie in front of an iconic landmark before setting out on a series of talks and workshops.</p>\n<p><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/aus2-e1439713877141.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-15102 size-medium" src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/aus2-e1439713877141-188x250.jpg" alt="" width="188" height="250" /></a></p>\n<p>I gave a brief demo to <a href="http://ictensw.org.au/2015/07/carrie-anne-philbin-is-coming-to-sydney/">ICT educators of New South Wales</a>  on the first evening at an event where teachers give up their free time to share ideas and practices around teaching ICT and computer science in a state where it is not a formal part of their curriculum. These were inspirational teachers, willing to push what is possible in their classrooms.</p>\n<p>At <a href="https://maas.museum/">the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences</a> at the Powerhouse in Sydney I got the chance to <a href="https://twitter.com/BitScopeDesigns/status/628762691419504644">speak to education specialists and teachers</a> about our work at Raspberry Pi before leading a fruity physical computing workshop. I was able to share fun ideas and meet some fabulous STEM education enthusiasts.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fruity programming with <a href="https://twitter.com/pimoroni">@pimoroni</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/explorerhat?src=hash">#explorerhat</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/picademyau?src=hash">#picademyau</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a>. Lots of fun! <a href="http://t.co/7CAdidRMUS">pic.twitter.com/7CAdidRMUS</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Tulloch (@BitScopeDesigns) <a href="https://twitter.com/BitScopeDesigns/status/628839167821099012">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>The museum was truly a fabulous space with well equipped resources for schools. I was lucky enough to receive a brief tour of all the facilities like the Mars Lab, a recreation of the Martian surface, and robotics lab which is used to encourage students to use technology to search for life on Mars. Schools are able to connect to the lab and their rovers via the internet, allowing students to program the bots directly. Using the cameras, they can experience what it is like for space engineers. They test rovers there, and I got to meet one.</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some of my friends want to be Mars rovers <a href="https://twitter.com/theMarsLab">@theMarsLab</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maasmuseum">@maasmuseum</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="http://t.co/2lckhumUO5">pic.twitter.com/2lckhumUO5</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; peter mahony (@vergeofperil) <a href="https://twitter.com/vergeofperil/status/628810068176146434">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>Whilst in Sydney I visited good friend <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin/status/629191690356686848">Dan Bowen</a>, a <a href="http://casinclude.org.uk/">CAS #include</a> committee member, and some <a href="https://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/SetupRPI.htm">Windows IoT Raspberry Pi</a> developers at Microsoft, where they all showed me their latest work with the operating system and Physical computing on the Pi. I was invited to meet the <a href="http://www.codeclubau.org/">Code Club Australia</a> team who are working with schools across all the territories and training teachers in a bid to give children an opportunity to learn to code. I also found time to speak to girls at two different coding clubs and meet some fans!</p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">geek gurl <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> talking technology to girls <a href="https://twitter.com/MosmanHS">@MosmanHS</a> <a href="http://t.co/tNHdT6rNph">pic.twitter.com/tNHdT6rNph</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Geek in Sydney (@GeekinSydney) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekinSydney/status/629137461587804160">August 6, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fan girl moment w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/nickyringland">@nickyringland</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MissPhilbin">@MissPhilbin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekGurlDiaries">@GeekGurlDiaries</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ozcschat?src=hash">#ozcschat</a> <a href="http://t.co/dTGNjKZwhp">pic.twitter.com/dTGNjKZwhp</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Malyn Mawby (@malynmawby) <a href="https://twitter.com/malynmawby/status/629829297461596161">August 8, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A definite <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fangirl?src=hash">#fangirl</a> moment for me here. It was awesome meeting you <a href="https://twitter.com/GeekGurlDiaries">@GeekGurlDiaries</a> to chat all things <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/raspberrypi?src=hash">#raspberrypi</a>! <a href="http://t.co/Ovlkn3MBxJ">pic.twitter.com/Ovlkn3MBxJ</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; Martha Aragon (@diamondsteppe) <a href="https://twitter.com/diamondsteppe/status/628882405412089856">August 5, 2015</a></p></blockquote>\n<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>\n<p>There are clearly lots of initiatives in Sydney that parents and educators can tap into from online learning platforms like Grok Learning and the NCSS challenge, to free professional development and workshops from ICTENSW and the MAAS Museum.</p>\n<p><b>Singapore</b></p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to be able to stop in Singapore on my way back to the UK during the nation’s 50th anniversary thanks to the Raspberry Pi team at Broadcom Singapore. I was asked to drop by the office to eat pizza and give a presentation to their engineers about the Raspberry Pi Foundation by <a href="http://www.broadcomfoundation.org/blog/broadcom-foundation/community-hero-jeffrey-jen-hui-chin-brings-raspberry-pi-workshops-to-singaporean-students/">Jeffery Chin</a> who leads the Broadcom Singapore Raspberry Pi team, who provide Raspberry Pi outreach to teachers and students in their spare time.</p>\n<p>I was then taken to <a href="http://www.science.edu.sg/">Singapore’s Science Centre</a> to meet their STEM education specialists and Ministry of Education representatives to discuss Raspberry Pi professional development for teachers and their computing outreach programmes. 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       '#': '<p>At the end of July, a subset of our Education Team went to Bilbao in Spain for <a href="https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/">EuroPython</a>. 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Pyland is a game designed for children to learn Python as a way to progress in the game. 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npenin commented 9 years ago

I just found the difference between you and me : my url is https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed whereas yours is https://www.raspberrypi.org/feed/ .

The url without a / returns a 301 to the url with it. I'll handle this case. Thanks a lot for your help and amazing fast support.

danmactough commented 9 years ago

No problem.

That's a great reminder that using a module that's already paved the cowpaths is usually a good idea -- the request module handles redirects. :wink:

drouillard commented 9 years ago

@danmactough +1 for this example and the responsiveness! Awesome work.

danmactough commented 9 years ago

hat-tip