[REQUEST] GalNet RSS Feed

Skip Intro · Jan 14, 2015

Hmm, I thought my pull was broken, but it seems the feed itself isn't updating.

Buji · Jan 14, 2015

I searched for this or a similar thread to report the same thing. Perhaps it's tied to the stalled background simulator.

Athan · Jan 14, 2015

Skip Intro said:
Hmm, I thought my pull was broken, but it seems the feed itself isn't updating.

For me the RSS feed matches what's on http://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/ . Of course the last two items are out of order on that page itself compared to the timeline of them appearing in the RSS feed (and I'm fairly certain that they did appear in reverse order with quite some time separation)!

Lunchmoney · Jan 14, 2015

edit: error, delete me.

Athan · Jan 14, 2015

OK, now something's completely broken. The RSS feed shows:

Sanna and Dulos Independence Movement News In contrasting news reports from the Sanna and Dulos systems, reporters revealed the latest on the independence movements in those systems. The Federal-supporting factions in the Sanna system are comfortably holding their ground and local commentators believe that their efforts to leave the Federation will soon collapse. In Dulos the independence movement has gained more traction thanks to the efforts of the Dulos Defence Party and their supporters. It is reported that independent pilots from around the region are providing support for both sides in the struggle.

I just checked with a manual pull of the feed and checking the resulting file. Yet that isn't actually showing up on http://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/

xelexous · Jan 16, 2015

I'm glad I'm not the only one looking for a standard rss feed and having trouble finding it.

Athan · Jan 22, 2015

It looks like they've partially fixed it up. pubDates are in real-world time and they have unique GUIDs (although not as URLs). However, they still don't have an individual per-item URL, so any click-through will always just take you to the galnet front page.

Skip Intro · Jan 22, 2015

Thanks for the heads up regarding the time. Issue now is that teh feed has replaced single quote / apostrophe with a full stop, which breaks quotes / speech.

Rhaedas · Jan 23, 2015

Aaaand now it's completely broke.

They've changed the way they're presenting GalNet news, having it split up by calendar date, with an option to see latest (maybe the last two days or so). Like it, very compact and easy to find something now.

But that's broken the RSS feed (and of course 3rd party scrapers, but they'll adapt). I would presume that whoever does the website knows this and is working on it, but in case they didn't consider it...your RSS pickup doesn't like the new format, so there is nothing there at all now.

Athan · Jan 23, 2015

Rhaedas said:
Aaaand now it's completely broke.

They've changed the way they're presenting GalNet news, having it split up by calendar date, with an option to see latest (maybe the last two days or so). Like it, very compact and easy to find something now.

But that's broken the RSS feed (and of course 3rd party scrapers, but they'll adapt). I would presume that whoever does the website knows this and is working on it, but in case they didn't consider it...your RSS pickup doesn't like the new format, so there is nothing there at all now.

I'm seeing all entries back to, and including "Bombing of Panem Resumes" from "Sat, 10 Jan 2015 07:00:00 +0000" in the raw RSS URL. Are you sure this isn't your RSS reader getting confused by the sudden move to current-time pubDate entries and not thinking anything is new because they're all older than the last year 3301 entry it saw ?

sutex · Jan 25, 2015

http://www.elitedangerous.com/galnet/ Not working in firefox "Live bookmark feed failed to load"

Rhaedas · Jan 25, 2015

Athan said:
I'm seeing all entries back to, and including "Bombing of Panem Resumes" from "Sat, 10 Jan 2015 07:00:00 +0000" in the raw RSS URL. Are you sure this isn't your RSS reader getting confused by the sudden move to current-time pubDate entries and not thinking anything is new because they're all older than the last year 3301 entry it saw ?

Every day seems to be a different thing. That was from going to the URL with a browser, which should just give me straight data, but was blank yesterday. Today it's giving me the main header, but nothing else. Looking at the source, all the data is there, but there's a <![CDATA[...]] around every description, suggesting a database issue, plus I think the single quotes combined with using UTF8 is breaking things as well.

Eldrazzi · Jan 25, 2015

/signed.

I'm at least getting the updated feed now but there are no link backs.

Athan · Feb 28, 2015

For some reason http://elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/rss is currently a 0-byte response.

Edit: OK, technically it's a 3-octet response, as it has some magic number to say it's UTF-8, but the content is entirely missing.

rnjkvsly · Mar 1, 2015

This is also happening for me (0-length reply), feed reader was getting confused and I couldn't tell why!

Zireael · Mar 10, 2015

The links are working now for me

DrToxic · Mar 10, 2016

I like this idea.. I have just got my powermac g5 set up beside my pc. It will serve as in-flight entertainment and web browser while I'm flying, as well as notes and other goodness. The idea is taking the stress off the pc from having to deal with a second display all the time.

the rss screensaver is not an eye-sore, and I would love it to show galnet news. the closest I've got at the moment is E

news, and even that needs standardizing; the screensaver starts up saying first of jan, 2001.. and the news articles are to do with arena, horizons beta and sales.. it's nice, yes, but I would love it to show galnet!