Aggregating comments

[GardnerCampbell]

I've always made a "hidden blog" with FWP syndicating in the comments feeds from all the participating blog sites, then used the RSS feed from that hidden blog to populate an RSS widget. Kinda quick, kinda dirty, but it works.

Is there a better way?

[cogdog]

Duct tapey but it sounds good, except maybe for having to manually add feeds. I thought Tom had some plugin that the guy who was at VCU briefly did.

I was going to look at some old scripts I had done for Thoughtvectors that parses the feed list for Wordpress and Blogger blogs and built an OPML of comment feeds. I think you can set up Inoreader to have a dynamic connect to an OPML URL (so it updates when the feed does) and it has widgets to feed back to a site. I will be dabbling but not til later this week.

But if what you have is working, groovy.

[woodwardtw]

Yeah, I had it up and working at http://openlearninghub.net/comments/ from way back when this first started but something's not working right now.

You can see it working here.

I'll revisit if it's of interest but it maybe isn't doing what Gardner wants (archival? as posts?).

If I recall correctly with the motherblog plugin there's a way to do it automatically as well.

[cogdog]

I got a script working that generates an OPML for syndicated blogs that have comment feeds (Blogger and Wordpress)-- Just did some quick testing, not sure if its missing any blogs.

All Blogs http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml

Virginia http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml?group=virginia

Other AACU http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml?group=other

Open http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml?group=open

Am testing this on my other site to see if Inoreader can fetch this dynamically and feed back

[cogdog]

I have a proof of concept going for my Networked Narratives class (same opml scripts for Openlearning17).

(1) So this downloads an OPML for comment feeds from my students: http://netnarr.arganee.world/comments-opml?group-kean

(2) In Inoreader, I add this URL as an OPML Subscription -- this is a dynamic connection, so when new feeds go into OPML, they get synced in inoreader

(3) Inoreader provides an RSS feed for all that activity http://www.inoreader.com/stream/user/1005987340/tag/netnarr%20comments%20kean

(4) I use that feed in WP with the RSSImport plugin, to have 20 most recent comments appear below the list of blogs

http://netnarr.arganee.world/notebooks/kean/

Inoreader also provides an HTML widget for the same http://netnarr.arganee.world/kean-comments/

Still shaking this out....

[GardnerCampbell]

Inoreader account enabled. Testing, testing. When I subscribe to http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml in Inoreader, I get what appears to be all the comments from each blog site, not just the comments fed in by means of the specific category. For too lazy to write, for example, I get many, many comments, and most of them don't seem to be related to Open Learning '17. I may be looking at this incorrectly.

[cogdog]

Two notes as that was done in haste:

(1) Inoreader seems to take a number of days until it sorts things more chronologically, at first you get them lumped by blog.

(2) Yeah, you can only get RSS Comment Feeds on a per blog basis, no way to get a feed for category's comments (that I niw if). Works better for whole blog feeds. Not optimal I agree.

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Inoreader account enabled. Testing, testing. When I subscribe to http://openlearninghub.net/comments-opml in Inoreader, I get what appears to be all the comments from each blog site, not just the comments fed in by means of the specific category. For too lazy to write, for example, I get many, many comments, and most of them don't seem to be related to Open Learning '17. I may be looking at this incorrectly.

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