1) Irrelevant result for all links
I was subscribed to the DZone recent links to the feeds at http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/rss.xml and my Google reader was getting flooded with new items every few minutes and I was noticing that I was getting items which aren't relevant to me.
2) Subscribe to the Tags by visiting individual pages for each tags and subscribe to them:
Hence I tried to find a way to subscribe to each tag that I am interested in php, javascript and subscribed to them. But the Problem here is that if two links are submitted for both of the tags in my list I get repetitive entries...
3) Yahoo Pipes to the rescue.
I created a new Pipe in Yahoo Pipes with the following components in it.
A) A Feed fetcher which fetches the following feeds:
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/php/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/javascript/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/javascript/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/ajax/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/web%202.0/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/web%20design/rss.xml
http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/css-html/rss.xml
B) The output is fed into an Operator Unique which filters non unique items based on item.link
C) The output of B is fed into an Operator Sort which sorts the item by item.pubDate on Descending Order.
The out put of the C is what you get in the feed at
http://pipes.yahoo.com/rungss/dzonelinkslampajax
There are other similar attempts and a list of that can be found at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/search?q=dzone
Please write in the Comments if you feel any other tags from DZone should be included here. Or any other thought to make it more useful.
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ReplyDeleteHi Bijay,
ReplyDeleteSometime back, I landed up here following the link in your comment at my blog (http://abhijeetmaharana.com). At that time, I didn't use Google Reader. So I couldn't relate to your post and forgot about it.
Few days later when I did sign up and started using Reader, I added Dzone to the list and realized I was getting unrelated feeds. I knew I had seen the solution somewhere but it took me some time to recollect where. Finally, I landed up here again.
Thanx for the Yahoo Pipes solution. Came in just when I needed it.
(Removed earlier comment to fix some typos)