A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.
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Feed dialog generating errors with iOS SDK
UPDATE: This problem was resolved when facebook fixed their service.
I'm trying to get the feed dialog to work for sharing with facebook. I had it all working before with the old, deprecated API and ...
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What is the difference between <pubDate> and <lastBuildDate> in RSS?
I have the feeling, in every RSS.xml file, both the pubDate and the lastBuildDate match.
I am sure that this one, is not always true...
So firstly, what is the difference between those two above?
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What types of posts are in a feed?
I was wondering what all the possible types of posts I can expect in a feed. The documentation at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/ mentions that the type field could be link, ...
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Library or tool to download multiple files in parallel [closed]
I'm looking for a python library or a command line tool for downloading multiple files in parallel. My current solution is to download the files sequentially which is slow. I know you can easily write ...
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Setting up an Github Commit RSS feed
I am trying to have my github commits as an RSS feed but so far I have not managed to figure it out. I know that a private feed is available with the following syntax:
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How do I efficiently update a UITableView with Animation?
My iPad app features a UITableView populated from a feed. Like most RSS readers, it displays a list of links to blog posts in reverse chronological order, with their titles and a summary of each post. ...
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Displaying Twitter feed stopped working
The default way to display a twitter feed has stopped working. Here is an example code:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" ...
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Are there free realtime financial data feeds since the demise of OpenQuant?
Now that the oligopole of market data providers successfully killed OpenQuant, does any alternative to proprietary and expensive subscriptions for realtime market data subsist?
Ideally I would like ...
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Posts from Instagram not showing up on Facebook Open Graph API
I have an issue with Facebook OpenGraph API. Whenever I request data using either '/home' or '/feed', none of the posts from Instagram showed up.
I've been googling around and apparently some people ...
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Adding content to Facebook feed dialog from Facebook SDK for Android
In my android app, I want users to "share" my app in their wall, so I want them to post a predefined content status on their wall.
How can I customize the wall status? (I want to add my app icon and ...
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How big is too big for an RSS feed XML file?
I'm implementing an RSS feed for a website and I don't understand certain things about the format/size/content of the XML file for the feed.
I'm initializing the site with the past data, which runs ...
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OAuthException (#368) The action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed
I'm trying to post a feed on my wall or on the wall on some of my friends using Graph API. I gave all permissions that this application needs, allow them when i make the request from my page, I'm ...
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Check if remote file is well-formed XML with PHP
I have a PHP-driven site that includes an XML stock feed, which is remotely served from ASP (i.e. the XML feed url is of the order: http://remote.com/client.asp).
As the feed is often unavailable (by ...
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News sources for python django
I find myself continually sifting through the net to keep up with Python/Django/web development trends and news. Does anyone recommend any good news sites that focus on web development or they Python ...
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Posts made using the Javascript SDK feed dialog are small and truncated; don't match preview
I'm trying to update my stream.publish code to use the feed dialog in the javascript SDK, but the resulting facebook posts are small and ugly. More annoying is that the posts on facebook don't match ...