New -more flexible- RSS feed

[Hans]

All,

This night the new version of the RSS feed was put in production. This new version has much more flexible possibilities for getting only those posting you are looking for - although you may need to set up multiple feeds to get all those postings you want.

As we will not be creating any graphical interface, or any other means for automatically creating the links for the feeds you want, some extra effort from your side is needed though.

With this new version, we are introducing two new variables to filter the content of the RSS-feed; the possibility to include only a specific (sub-) forum, and the possibility to filter on specific strings (like words, part of words, multiple words etc) in the subject of the threads in that forum.

But how do you link to those feeds?

All postings
For showing all postings, in all forums, just use the 'simple', old fashioned

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php

Filtering
For our explanation and examples we will mostly be using the Brussels forum.

Before you will create your own feed, you need to know which ID (number) the forum has you want to use. You browse to that forum, and then look at the address bar in your browser. For the Brussels forum you will then see;

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/viewforum.php?f=61

Here the number 61 at the end is the forum-ID, which you need to remember.

Only a specific forum
With this forum-ID we can now create a feed for this specific forum. First put a question mark behind http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, followed by f= and the forum-ID. You now have something what looks like (and can be copied to your RSS reader)

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=61

Filter on a string
After you have set up a feed for a specific forum, you can now further filter on specific strings in the subjects in that forum. First put an ampersand ("&") behind the feed you created before, followed by s= and the string you would like to filter on.
For instance, you only want the civil postings in the Brussels forum, so those which include CIV in the subject.

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=61&s=CIV

Note that it is not possible to use only the string-search function without specifying a forum.

Some more examples
Only the military related postings in the Amsterdam-Schiphol forum

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=14&s=MIL

All postings about Red Flag in the Military News forum

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=48&s=Red Flag

Only the Leeuwarden related topics in the 'Scramble Intelligence Service' forum

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=32&s=EHLW

Postings in the Radio Activity forum which have the string 'freq' in the topics title - so including the words 'frequency', 'frequencies', 'freqs', but also 'frequently'

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http://www.scramble.nl/forum/rss.php?f=9&s=freq

Please note this will only work as expected as long as everybody follows the guidelines on topic titles


Hope this is of use.

Kind regards,