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Add Photos to API RSS Response #351

Closed brianherbert closed 10 years ago

brianherbert commented 10 years ago

Add images along with text in the RSS feeds.

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moeden commented 10 years ago

I feel guilty for adding to your workload! Can I make a donation or support in any other way (given I'm not a coder)

brianherbert commented 10 years ago

No worries! Your feedback is payment enough!

evansims commented 10 years ago

I went ahead and implemented this today. If a post has a photo it will show up in the RSS feed as a media:content element. Live example: https://api.crowdmap.com/v1/posts/?format=rss&has=photo

moeden commented 10 years ago

Thanks Evan - I've tried to generate a pdf newspaper which includes the images from https://api.crowdmap.com/v1/maps/windturbineswales/posts/?format=rss&has=photo clipboard01 , and you can see that the newspaper doesn't scoop the images. Do you think this is a problem our end or with the RSS? The newspaper works fine with a 'standard' rss (such as this one http://ynnicymru.org.uk/blog/feed which produces this) ![Uploading Clipboard02.jpg . . .]()

evansims commented 10 years ago

It appears the tool you're using doesn't support media enclosures and (I'm guessing) just pulls in HTML images from the description tag. Is this a tool you're developing, or something you're just putting to use? I can help point you in the right direction if you're building it, but otherwise you can work around this using an intermediary script of some kind.

Here's a quick Yahoo! Pipe I threw together that should output the content as you need it for your tool: http://pipes.yahoo.com/evansims/mediarss Paste the Crowdmap RSS URL in the input box there, hit "Run Pipe" and then right click the "Get as RSS" link. Use that URL as the source in your tool and it should work.

moeden commented 10 years ago

@evansims thanks for checking it out - it's a commercial offering which we use for other newsletters, but it's obviously struggling here. It's clear from the pipe that the issue is at the newsletter end rather than your api - I'll have a think about how we can use the RSS in another way to get the right outcome.

Thanks so much!

moeden commented 9 years ago

Hi @evansims, I saw that Yahoo Pipes was closing down, so I took another look at the 'feed with images' issue; I still can't get it to generate images with 'normal' feed readers although the text is fine. Tried with outlook and with Feedbucket. Any suggestions?

Thankyou in advance :)