Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?

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Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
« 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
« Last Edit: December 30, 2016, 04:08:11 pm by pstrawberrie »
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Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2017, 06:13:56 pm »
Using this link to pull latest 10!

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https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;limit=10
from http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=25009.0
« Last Edit: January 16, 2017, 11:19:43 am by pstrawberrie »
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Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
« Reply #5 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

Most recent pull I'm using:
https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=atom;sa=recent;limit=30
« Last Edit: February 22, 2017, 08:13:47 am by pstrawberrie »
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Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2017, 04:27:15 pm »
If you also want the author's name, use type=atom.

That's what fishy uses!

Re: Is there any way to get the post data from wetfish forum?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2017, 06:17:19 am »
Nice, good info thx m8. Updated recommended feed URL above!
« Last Edit: February 22, 2017, 08:13:06 am by pstrawberrie »
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