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Title: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: pstrawberrie on December 30, 2016, 03:15:41 pm
hello gentles men and ladies,
good afternoon and i hope you all are just dandy and ripe with anticipation to read my lovely post.

I would like to know...
is there any way I can obtain some sort of RSS feed or way to get posts from this here great forum, sans-scraping?

Thank you for your time, and remember your pal pstraw is on your side, and he loves you, and he knows how to talk professionally in the regular forums and not the "shit post" forums.

Cheerz
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: ceph on December 31, 2016, 03:35:04 pm
Yes, e.g.

https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;topic=195.0;type=rss2
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: rachel on December 31, 2016, 03:59:07 pm
Quote from: ceph on December 31, 2016, 03:35:04 pm
Yes, e.g.

https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;topic=195.0;type=rss2

Thanks ceph!! you're so smart
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: pstrawberrie on December 31, 2016, 05:41:22 pm
Quote from: ceph on December 31, 2016, 03:35:04 pm
Yes, e.g.

https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;topic=195.0;type=rss2

Sexy. THanks!
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: pstrawberrie on January 15, 2017, 06:13:56 pm
Using this link to pull latest 10!

Code: [Select]
https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;limit=10
from http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0)
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: pstrawberrie on February 21, 2017, 08:44:43 am
Updated for anyone interested...the default SMF rss is pretty wak - definitely want to include a "type" query in the xml request.

"Official" RSS info for Simple Machines Forum:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0)

Most recent pull I'm using:
https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=atom;sa=recent;limit=30 (https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=atom;sa=recent;limit=30)
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: nicefish on February 21, 2017, 04:27:15 pm
If you also want the author's name, use type=atom.

That's what fishy uses (https://github.com/itsrachelfish/fishy-bot/blob/2d8d1ca50347516505051cbe31a9d5b720ecdd7f/modules/wfo.js#L2)!
Title: Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
Post by: pstrawberrie on February 22, 2017, 06:17:19 am
Nice, good info thx m8. Updated recommended feed URL above!