RSS Feeds for Runescape

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What is RSS?

 

RSS (Realy Simple Syndication) put simply, is a web feed. Which can be used to publish information (such as new posts/new headlines/you name it) in a simple format. This can then be viewed, on practicaly anything. From Desktop Widgets to Cellphones. It can even be embed into your very own webpage.

 

An example

 

http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss

 

(If you use Firefox/Opera - Stick that into your address bar and you will see a bunch of news headlines, with date/time and a snippet of the report. IE might do it also, I have no idea)

 

 

 

What to make RSS feads for in Runescape?

 

Well my suggestion is that they make it for the latest news, and to be a bit more wacky, The Grand Exchange.

 

 

 

How will it benefit us?

 

Now the news might not benefit us much, however with it, you could place the RSS address into your desktop widget for example so you can keep updated (Set it to refresh every 5 min for example)

 

The one which could benefit us even more is having a RSS feed for grand exchange, Imagine being able to get the latest prices for that item you are trying to merchant, on your cellphone. You could be anywhere, and still get the information you want to know, same for news.

 

 

 

For web developers alike, We could also put this into use, for example what I am doing is making my own homepage, which is getting the RSS feed (from another site) for the news, and scrolls through it automatically for me. If we had it set up for the GE, you could quite simply set up a page gathering the prices for the items you want, in what ever view you prefer.

 

 

 

Before I mentioned desktop widgets also. The RSS widget for the Vista Sidebar is a fine example of this, and should Jagex implement RSS, you could keep up to date from your Desktop.

 

 

 

Please leave comments/criticisms below :ohnoes:

 

 

 

Supporters

[Slayr]

There are tons of these on the internet already; I doubt Jagex could do a better job...

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There are tons of these on the internet already; I doubt Jagex could do a better job...

 

 

 

Please define tons -.-

 

 

 

I have currently found 2, one from Runehead, and the live feed fails, and one from Zybez, which takes from the Forum section and only displays 3.

 

 

 

There is no GE version, and there certainly aren't tons of these. To top it all of Jagex could do a much better job, because it would come straight from the source in which it was made, and be directly available.

 

 

 

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[BloodArgon]

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarti ... =2077#what

 

 

 

7. It must not automatically make repeated page/content requests from our website or otherwise make excessively bandwidth intensive requests from our servers (each page/content request should only be in direct response to a user request each time).

 

 

 

Thats prolly why a GE version wouldnt work, but, RSS for just news alone should be fine, since, its all located on the main page, they couldnt tell if its just someone refreshing the homepage or whatever. The wait time would have to be like an hour upwards.

[Zaaps1]

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2077#what

 

 

 

7. It must not automatically make repeated page/content requests from our website or otherwise make excessively bandwidth intensive requests from our servers (each page/content request should only be in direct response to a user request each time).

 

 

 

Thats prolly why a GE version wouldnt work, but, RSS for just news alone should be fine, since, its all located on the main page, they couldnt tell if its just someone refreshing the homepage or whatever. The wait time would have to be like an hour upwards.

 

 

 

Nothing stops Jagex from making an exception for themselves! :lol:

 

 

 

Seems like a useful idea to me, although I probably wouldn't use it.

[BloodArgon]

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2077#what

 

 

 

7. It must not automatically make repeated page/content requests from our website or otherwise make excessively bandwidth intensive requests from our servers (each page/content request should only be in direct response to a user request each time).

 

 

 

Thats prolly why a GE version wouldnt work, but, RSS for just news alone should be fine, since, its all located on the main page, they couldnt tell if its just someone refreshing the homepage or whatever. The wait time would have to be like an hour upwards.

 

 

 

Nothing stops Jagex from making an exception for themselves! :lol:

 

 

 

Seems like a useful idea to me, although I probably wouldn't use it.

 

 

 

 

 

Well duh! If your a company, you dont want idiots spamming up your server with 500 GE refreshes per minute. Bandwidth is money you know...

[rtz_z]

This is not an official feed, but they adds latest news very fast:

 

http://feeds.feedburner.com/zybez/RunescapeNews

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Yeah the one from zybez is what I am currently using to code into my homepage, its decent, but the feed only covers the latest 3 articles.

 

 

 

And yeah, GE prob wont work, as there would be major server load issues (unless they perhaps moved the entire GE database onto a new dedicated server)

[Slayr]

http://freddy1990.com/runescaperss/

 

 

 

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