Test feeds wanted
Akregator’s new parser backend, libsyndication, is coming along nicely and more and more feeds of the test suite are parsed as expected.
However, to make the parser even better, more real-world test feeds are needed, feeds that I would never think of, feeds that use exotic encodings, (mis-)use the standards in creative ways, or contain additional information that is not covered by Akregator yet: your feeds.
If you have any feed in your feed list that isn’t rendered correctly, or that has some feature supported in other feed readers but not in Akregator, add it here. Exceptions are the well-known missing features, like categories, enclosures and advanced support for author information - these are already supported by libsyndication.
Some good criteria for a feed that would be useful for us:
- the feed has problems with character encoding (special characters or your non-latin script are not displayed correctly), linebreaks and whitespace.
- the feed isn’t rendered correctly in Akregator but Feed Validator doesn’t report errors.
- the feed isn’t rendered correctly in Akregator, Feed Validator reports errors, but the problem exists for a lot of feeds (e.g. because some widely used generator messes it up).
- The feed uses some RSS or Atom extension that you find important enough to be supported in coming Akregator versions.
You can add your test feeds to the Wiki page (preferred), add it here as comment, or send it by mail to the mailing list (no subscription needed).
on November 16th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
[…] Der RSS-Reader Akregator für KDE sucht einem Blogeintrag zufolge RSS-Feeds, die bisher problematisch waren, um sie mit einem neuen Backend für das Lesen solcher Feeds zu testen. Die entsprechenden Feeds sollen am besten auf einer eigens eingerichteten Wikiseite eingetragen werden. […]
on January 4th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Hi,
In the last couple of weeks, evil search-engine-optimizers have been adding many links to their sites to the Wiki page. The links are “hidden” with CSS, so the page is still mostly rendered ok. I have done some cleaning, but the spamming continues.
Please take a look at the page’s history and ban the offending IP address (there is only one).
Thanks,
Shai.
on January 6th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Thanks, I deleted the spam and will have a look how to ban the IP.
on May 21st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
With Amarok, our problem is generally not parsing but handling new items being put into the feed. Sometimes things mess up. Repeat items or things get out of order. This is a problem with RSS in general, see planetkde.org. A perfect solution would be impossible.
Anyways, you should probably come up with some unit tests involving this.
on May 21st, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Pfft I had the feeds listed in the wrong order. This is an old blog.
on June 15th, 2007 at 7:54 am
This is the wrong place to leave this suggestion but I have little time today. For the next version would it be possible to have a perma-search / perma-filter on a feed….. I have a feed which is derived from search criteria on a Job website, their search is imperfect…. I keep having to use the akregator search bar to filter the thousands of results…. if I could add a “perma”-filter to the feed and only ever see matching results then it would help greatly to augment search based feeds such as jobserve an google…. even extend the perma-filter to be regex or “context” capable
just an idea
on August 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
If I remember correctly DeviantART now has RSS feed for journal of paid and/or longterm members and ’staff’ members. As It would help me not to have to read those while browsing through the hundreds of artist that I watch it would be nice to have it added to Akragators listing of sites…
www.deviantart.com
on October 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
Hi!
There’s a problem with some feeds and akgregator. It denies even to load them. I don’t know exactly why, the feed itself looks ok. There’s an example:
http://habrahabr.ru/rss/blogs/webdev/ (it is in russian, all feeds of that site).
There were several more feeds, which are rejected to load, but now i can’t remember them.
on November 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
http://hilfe.us/index.rss may qualify