HOWTO: RSS Feeds for UNIX Forums

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If you want to submit your favorite UNIX.COM forum to RSS news feeds registries or directories, here is how:

The top level RSS link to the UNIX forums is:

http://www.unix.com/external.php

This is the default for the RSS type, which is:

http://www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS

(There is also type JS for Java Script and XML)

If you are interested in a specific forum RSS, you can add the forum ID, for example, the main "Dummies" forum ID is 2, so:

http://www.unix.com/external.php?forumids=2

The forum ID can be found in the URL (f=2) for example.

Feel free to submit your favorite UNIX forum to any RSS registry and post back where you submitted our news feed.

Thanks and Have Fun,

Neo

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Please note I have added this code to the footer that provides the link to our RSS feed based on forum id:

<a href="http://www.unix.com/external.php?forumids=$forumid"><img src="images/xml.jpg" alt="[RSS]" title="UNIX Forums RSS Feed" align="right"/></a>

External links can't use the code above because the variable $forumid is not set.

For the general forum, try:

<br /><a href="http://www.unix.com/external.php"><img src="images/xml.jpg" alt="[RSS]" title="UNIX Forums RSS Feed" align="right"/></a>

With the image in this attachment.

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Could you also add

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="The UNIX Forums" href="http://www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS" />

so that users, whose browsers (for ex. firefox) support this tag, could automatically subscribe the feed?

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(Already supported) Look at the XML button on the bottom of each page and you can see our RSS feeds are very flexible.

I uses these and they work fine in Personal Google, etc.

For example, if the link is, by default:

http//www.unix.com/external.php?forumid=5

You can add the RSS info, if required for the same results:

http//www.unix.com/external.php?forumid=5&type=RSS

or even:

http//www.unix.com/external.php?type=RSS&forumid=5

It is really "up to you".... as it works fine.

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You did not understand me. I am talking about <link> tag used by firefox to automatically subscribe for feed.

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No, I don't understand you, sorry.

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See http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/library/manuals/1998/htmlguide/tags3.html\#1808449 and http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2004/09/15/101b.jpg

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Where should we change the vB code to include or add this for this forum? In the HTML header area?

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<title>The UNIX Forums - HOWTO: RSS Feeds for UNIX Forums</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.0.6" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Unix and Linux System Administration, hpux, aix, solaris, sunos, irix, sun, hp, ibm, sgi, redhat, linux, sco, apple osX, unix users, unix forums, free unix, redhat linux, slackware linux. unix forum, unix forums, forum, forums, unix help, unix commands, unix command" />
<meta name="description" content="The top free UNIX and Linux System Administration Resource Forum, for beginners and gurus that are looking for UNIX and Linux help and advice on the Internet" />

... add it here ...

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
<style type="text/css">

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Done Eugrus. Hope this helps. -- Added to header area as requested.

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Thank you, it works!

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I think all of this has changed with the new RSS plugin and link page here:

The UNIX Forums RSS Feeds