RSS and XFML news feeds
RSS News feeds
The RDF Site Summary format is an XML listing of the latest 'interesting'
articles found. It is updated once every few minutes.
The system also scans many online papers daily.
Online news sites are scanned every few minutes.
You may poll as often as needed; articles move every 12 minutes or so.
The articles' text is downloaded, categorized, transformed,
and summarized.
Article text transformation consists of re-formatting, concept
detection, classification, and mark-up.
RDF (the XML/RSS output) is served on demand.
A default RSS feed serves up the latest articles.
RSS newsfeeds for searches and for specific concepts
are easily done. (Note RSS link on searches.)
The
concept dictionary
defines the "concepts" used for the classification and markup process.
XFML Feeds
Also available are XFML feeds. XFML (eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language)
is a standard markup that can express some of the rich categorization
and indexing that bot automatically performs on breaking news.
URL Parameters, Switches
Changes the form of the output for parameterized requests.
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url setting
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effect
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HTML
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RSS
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XFML
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JavaScript
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xml=1
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output as RSS RDF XML
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X
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xfml=1
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output as XFML lightweight topic (map) XML
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X
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javascript=1
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output as javascript
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X
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max=N
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output at most N items
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X
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X
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X
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X
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q=querystring
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search for querystring
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X
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X
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X
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X
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concept=conceptname
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search for conceptname
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X
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X
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country=C
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only show items with country C
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X
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X
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X
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minhits=H
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only show items with at least H hits
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X
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X
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X
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srclink=1
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link to original source site
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X
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noconcepts=1
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in the descriptions, omit the listing of concepts
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X
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X
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merge=1
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try to eliminate apparent duplicates by selecting the most recent
article
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prefix=pref
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In javascript output, prepend pref to variable names.
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rss=rss version
(0.9, 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, or atom)
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specify RSS version
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Example:
http://eco.news-bot.net/index.cgi?xml=1
http://eco.news-bot.net/index.cgi?xml=1&rss=atom
Javascript
Another way to use our news feeds
is to use Javascript.
The code below will load up those headlines, and print them out
separated by linebreaks. Just copy
and paste the following into your site wherever you want to see
the headlines.
Available Javascript information for each item:
| array name | contents |
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| title | item's title |
| link | url to item |
| description | short summary/description of item |
| date | date system found the item |
| concepts | list of concepts detected in the item |
| domain | source domain of item |
More RSS, XFML
Additionally, all site searches are available as XML RSS/RDF and XFML.
Simply perform a search; the corresponding XML RSS/RDF or XFML for that search
is indicated by a link at the top of the search result page
[this search as   ].
see also:
RDF Rich Site Summary (RSS)
RSS background, history, links
xfml.org
eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language.
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