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The jQuery Blog is the only blog I care about that doesn't have an RSS feed. I've waited years for them to add (or fix?) their RSS feed. With Google Reader shut

The jQuery Blog is the only blog I care about that doesn't have an RSS feed. I've waited years for them to add (or fix?) their RSS feed. With Google Reader shutting down, it seems that RSS feeds aren't popular, so maybe the jQuery Blog will never have an RSS feed. I looked for a solution just now and learned that Twitter accounts have RSS feeds. Here's the RSS feed for jQuery's Twitter account, which isn't full of typical Twitter noise: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=jquery https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_...

jeresig 13y ago
Huh - it does have an RSS feed though, it's just the one provided by Wordpress: http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ If you put http://blog.jquery.com/ http://blog.jquery.com/ into your feedreader it should be able to just automatically detect the feed (it's embedded in the page using a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" .../>).
- subsection1h 13y ago
  When I try to subscribe to http://blog.jquery.com/ http://blog.jquery.com/ or http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ in Thunderbird, I receive an error stating that "the Feed URL is not a valid feed". Also, I couldn't find a feed URL at the jQuery Blog that validates at the W3C Feed Validation Service. I've seen multiple commenters at the jQuery Blog state that the feed is broken for them too. The following search results bring up some of these comments: https://google.com/search?q=site:blog.jquery.com+broken+feed+OR+rss https://google.com/search?q=site:blog.jquery.com+broken+feed... I recall that this issue was acknowledged at some point by one of the contributors at the jQuery Blog. I don't recall who acknowledged it though, but I seem to recall that they stated it would be fixed eventually, which is why I didn't look for a solution until today.
arb99 13y ago
Most blogs do have them even if they don't link to them. Just look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...> in the source code
- subsection1h 13y ago
  Yeah, that URL isn't valid in Thunderbird or at the W3C Feed Validation Service. :-(
streptomycin 13y ago
FYI, Twitter is going to delete all their RSS feeds in a couple weeks https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates
- subsection1h 13y ago
  Heh, thanks for the news.

jeresig 13y ago

Huh - it does have an RSS feed though, it's just the one provided by Wordpress: http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ If you put http://blog.jquery.com/ http://blog.jquery.com/ into your feedreader it should be able to just automatically detect the feed (it's embedded in the page using a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" .../>).

subsection1h 13y ago
When I try to subscribe to http://blog.jquery.com/ http://blog.jquery.com/ or http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ in Thunderbird, I receive an error stating that "the Feed URL is not a valid feed". Also, I couldn't find a feed URL at the jQuery Blog that validates at the W3C Feed Validation Service. I've seen multiple commenters at the jQuery Blog state that the feed is broken for them too. The following search results bring up some of these comments: https://google.com/search?q=site:blog.jquery.com+broken+feed+OR+rss https://google.com/search?q=site:blog.jquery.com+broken+feed... I recall that this issue was acknowledged at some point by one of the contributors at the jQuery Blog. I don't recall who acknowledged it though, but I seem to recall that they stated it would be fixed eventually, which is why I didn't look for a solution until today.

arb99 13y ago

Most blogs do have them even if they don't link to them. Just look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...> in the source code

subsection1h 13y ago
Yeah, that URL isn't valid in Thunderbird or at the W3C Feed Validation Service. :-(

streptomycin 13y ago

FYI, Twitter is going to delete all their RSS feeds in a couple weeks https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates

subsection1h 13y ago
Heh, thanks for the news.