Regular RSS for yahoo news?

[Gaikokujin Kyofushso]

Hi, I wanted to make a "news feed search" like for agriculture, and then have the results put into RSS so I could view it from something like kinja.com. Putting it into "My Yahoo" was no problem but I am getting the impression they don't make getting it as a regular rss/xml feed an option. If I am wrong, could anyone out there give me a tip/point-in-the-right-direction on how to get a rss output from a yahoo (or Google but I am pretty sure that is not an option) news search?

Cheers (and gratitude),

-Gaiko

 

[Dean Johnson]

Hello,

Hi, I wanted to make a "news feed search" like for agriculture, and then have the results put into RSS so I could view it from something like kinja.com. Putting it into "My Yahoo" was no problem but I am getting the impression they don't make getting it as a regular rss/xml feed an option. If I am wrong, could anyone out there give me a tip/point-in-the-right-direction on how to get a rss output from a yahoo (or Google but I am pretty sure that is not an option) news search?

Some of the more advanced RSS readers like FeedDemon or even the web based readers are moving towards ruled based feeds. Where they will search content and serve items based on specific keywords in the content. There are a number of resources for this sort of thing at http://www.rss-specifications.com that you might find helpful.

Take care
DJ

 

[Andy Dingley]

Some of the more advanced RSS readers like FeedDemon or even the web based readers are moving towards ruled based feeds. Where they will search content and serve items based on specific keywords in the content.

I was building those in 2000/2001 (I still run one at home as my own feed aggregator) The trouble is though that keyword spotting is unreliable at best, and pretty useless in something as terse as an RSS item. It worked beautifully with RSS 1.0 feeds that contained good metadata, but of course such feeds are few and far between.

I never did resolve this - if metadata publishing improves, then aggregators can get usefully much smarter overnight. Until then though, your clever rules-based engine is still pretty much running on guesswork.