RSS Feed Counter

I have subscribed to the Ars Technica Infinite Loop RSS feed (FeedBurner) and notice that whenever a new topic is added that a number appears in parentheses next to the Infinite Loop link in my Safari Bookmarks Bar. If there have been five new posts there is a (5). I tested this on the feed to my iWeb blog page and it doesn't seem to offer that feature to my subscribers. Is that something that Feedburner offers that iWeb doesn't? Or it does, but I have not set it up right or am not testing it right.

I think it should work. Check your Safari preferences in the RSS tab. Make sure you have things set to "Automatically update articles in the Bookmarks Bar". And then I usually set the "Remove articles" setting to Never. Otherwise, it's possible that you will not see some feed episodes that been updated.

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I use RSS daily. This afternoon it stopped working. My feeds stopped getting updated, and then I realized I cannot load any RSS feed in Safari.
If for example I try:feed://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss, I just see a blank safari window, and at the bottom it says... "contacting www.apple.com". It never times out with an error message. It just doesn't seem to be able to get the feed. This is true for all of my feeds, and any new ones I try to view.
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OK, Looks like I solved my problem. I am posting what I did here in case it helps anyone else with the same problem.
Over at Mac OSX Hints, I found the following post: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070916123611119
-x- snip -x-
+"I have experienced this problem several times in the past few years, both on a G4 PowerBook and Intel iMac. For no reason, Safari will stop updating my RSS feed counts in the Bookmarks bar. RSS still functions and will update whenever a particular feed is selected, but the parenthetical numbers for each feed or folder do not change.+
+The fix is simple and doesn't hurt any of your RSS subscriptions. Just quit Safari, remove the Database3 file located in ~/Library » Syndication, and then launch Safari again. I move mine to the Desktop and trash it only after I've successfully restarted Safari and confirmed the problem is fixed. Safari will create a new file in its place.+
+Easy enough, but I've never seen it anywhere else online, and have forgotten it myself a few times."+
-x- snip -x-
So I followed this and moved the database3 file out of the ->Library->Syndication folder, restarted Safari, and now RSS seems to be working normally.
By the way, instead of deleting the database3 file,I just moved it to the desktop, until I can confirm that everything is working correctly, and I will delete it later.
Hope this is of some help to you if you are having similar RSS problems in Safari.
Martin
Message was edited by: Martin Weir

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Update to the unread RSS count:
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RSS Feeds Just Really Flaky?

I posted earlier about Safari 3.0/Windows and erratic RSS feed counts.
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The other annoying aspect is that once a feed has been read/clicked, the counter still shows as if I have unread feeds.
I've deleted the preference files and unchecked the fraudulent security tab but it has made no diference.
Many thanks,
Leonardo

Go to the Finder: Your User Account>Library>PubSub>Database folder. There, move the Database.sqlite3 to the desktop and restart Safari. Let me know if the feeds now correctly update. If they do, you'll need to reset any custom settings in the feeds.

Getting your RSS feed to work without .Mac

OK, so there have been a few people asking about this and I have figured out a way around it. I must warn you it is not a simple solution, but if you are comfortable using Text Edit to modify the code of your pages, it is a piece of cake - but still fairly tedious. If anyone has a quicker solution, please let us know! I would love to come up with an apple script to automate this process, but that takes time...
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The way I found to fix this is after publishing and before uploading to open all 3 files mentioned above in Text Edit, hit Command F to find and replace all instances of "/BookEndMedia/" with "/", removing the extra directory from all links.
There is however one more glitch I found that has nothing to do with the extra directory. These .xml files that iWeb creates look for all jpegs from each entry in the Media folder. iWeb now stores these files in the same folder as the blog entry. Instead of changing each link in the .xml files, I simply copied each jpeg into the Media file.
After doing all this I now have a functioning RSS feed that any RSS reader can subscribe to and even see the pictures. The only problem is every time I post I have to go through all this again with each .xml file and copying the new entry's jpeg into the Media folder.
Hopefully Apple will come up with a way for iWeb to distinguish if you are publishing to a folder and write the appropriate code for creating these .xml files. Until then, we will have to do these extra steps to get what we want - or we can come up with an Apple Script to save us some time (anyone?).
In the mean time I will count my blessings in the fact that thanks to iWeb I only have to modify 3 .xml files and not write code for every single page of my site.
Hope this helps, and if anyone has any suggestions, please let us know!
And please feel free to give me feedback on my site.
Thanks!

Here is a sample of the beginning of the blog-main.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss xmlns:iweb="http://www.apple.com/iweb" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Blog</title>
<link>http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog</link>
<description>Here you will find press releases and coverage that BookEnd Media Publicity has produced for our clientele. Check back regularly for the latest information.</description>
<item>
<title>Andrew Peterson featured in The Tennessean</title>
<link>http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog/Entries/2007/12/11Andrew_Peterson_featured_in_TheTennessean.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">d6a00155-2e0a-4efe-bc24-97e5381f16ac</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:27:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The Tennessean interviews Andrew Peterson about his Christmas musical Behold The Lamb Of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ.<br/><br/>Read the full article at: <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%253FAID%253D2007712130301 ">http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007712130301</a></description>
<iweb:image href="Media/petersontennessean.jpg"></iweb:image>
<iweb:comment enabled="0" link="http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog/Entries/2007/12/11Andrew_Peterson_featured_in_The_Tennessean.html#commentlayer" count="0"></iweb:comment>
</item>
I'm not crazy, I did see the Main folder issue above in the <iweb:image href="Media/petersontennessean.jpg"></iweb:image>
I guess it doesn't affect what I need though.

Script to open RSS feed url's and post those in the background to a webpage

Dear everyone,
Im trying to work on a script that should do:
- Read My Apple mail RSS feeds every 120 seconds
- extract a NUMBER from the links from those RSS feeds
- then post them to a website url site.com/rss.php?id=<extracted id>
- It should run totally in the background of my apple
- The links should be posted in the background also without opening any browser or safari
Is this possible?
I have my apple now 4 months and this is my first applescript project, so its a bit too much for me, ive spend several hours investigating on how to do this can someone help me out a bit please?
on idle
if application "Mail" is running then
-- read RSS feeds from apple mail
-- Extract link ID www.site.com/?id=12345
-- Post Id 12345 to http://site.com/rss.php?id=<the id>
end if
return 120
end idle

Read My Apple mail RSS feeds every 120 seconds
Start by using a different RSS application.
Mail.app doesn't provide any access to RSS feeds via AppleScript, so there is no chance of doing this with Mail.app (or, at least, no easy way to do so).
Try something like NetNewsWire instead.
Once you have a viable app, the first part is pretty straightfoward:
on idle
if application "NetNewsWire" is running then
--extract a NUMBER from the links from those RSS feeds
tell application "NetNewsWire" to set numLinks to total unread count
end if
return 120
end if=idle
From here, though, I don't know what you're trying to do. You say:
then post them to a website url site.com/rss.php?id=<extracted id>
Do you mean you want to post the number of RSS messages (since that's what you asked for earlier), or do you mean you want to re-post the RSS articles? Or do you mean you want to download the links and re-post the entire linked article?
That's three options (and there are probably more), each of which require a different approach.

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In Opera Pogo.com works. java loads, the game is there. It does have some drawing issues but not surprised.
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IWeb09 RSS Feed Button not providing the correct URL

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Your domain uses URL forwarding with masking. It has no meaning for links. It's just cosmetics.
This is the webpage that counts :
http://web.me.com/philipksmith/philipksmith/Blog/Blog.html
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!http://www.wyodor.net/_Discussions/WrongRSSButton.png!
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https://secure.me.com/account/
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Hello Everyone,
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Not sure if this counts as 'fixing' the problem; but here's what I did:
* Moved ~Library/Mail to someplace else (I picked my desktop)
* Open mail.
* Watch as .Mac pulls in the configuration that was synced to .Mac.
* Wait to download new mail (IMAP headers)
I did have to manually copy the mail rules .plist, but other than that, things seem to be working as I want them to.
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Hi all,
I am trying to read RSS feed from SSIS by using the Script Component. So far I am able to read some information from the RSS feed from the following items included in the code, Title, PublishDate, LastUpdateTime, Id and Summary.
There are still more item but I am unable to identify the proper data type for the following:
//Output0Buffer.Description = item.Content;
//Output0Buffer.Category = item.Categories;
//Output0Buffer.Comments = item.Summary;
//Output0Buffer.Source = item.SourceFeed;
When I define the data for item.Content as Unicode String in the column properties for the Output column I get the following error message:
Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationContent' to 'string'
And the same error for the other three variables.
I am using HTTP Connection manager to read the xml link.
I tried to google around for some help but I could not find more information about the datatype.
I appreciate any help if someone can point me to the right solution for reading RSS feed from SSIS.
Code:
/* Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Component
* Write scripts using Microsoft Visual C# 2008.
* ScriptMain is the entry point class of the script.*/
using System;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper;
using System.ServiceModel.Syndication;
using System.Xml;
using System.Text;
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.SSISScriptComponentEntryPointAttribute]
public class ScriptMain : UserComponent
private string url = string.Empty;
private SyndicationFeed feed = null;
private XmlReader reader = null;
public override void PreExecute()
base.PreExecute();
// Get the URL from the Http Connection Manager.
// Note, we're not actually using the connection manager's connection object,
// just it's URL setting. This is because using the .NET connection classes
// give us more flexibility.
reader = XmlReader.Create(Connections.HttpConnection.ConnectionString);
feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(reader);
public override void PostExecute()
base.PostExecute();
reader.Close();
public override void CreateNewOutputRows()
if (feed != null)
foreach (var item in feed.Items)
Output0Buffer.AddRow();
Output0Buffer.Title = item.Title.Text;
Output0Buffer.PublishDate = item.PublishDate;
Output0Buffer.LastUpdatedTime = item.LastUpdatedTime;
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//Output0Buffer.Category = item.Categories;
//Output0Buffer.Comments = item.Summary;
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Output0Buffer.FeedImage.AddBlobData(ConvertToBytes(item.Summary));
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Thanks in return.

You need to make it running outside SSIS 1st. I just do not see why you need to publish it here at the moment.
And to solve it, doesn't C# has the
VAR datatype so you do not have to guess.
Arthur
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Hello.
All of a sudden all RSS-feeds stopped loading. No RSS counts, Safari doesn't load anything when I click on one. I have tried resetting, removing the preference file, repairing permissions. Nothing seems to help.
I could add that they work perfectly well on my wife's account and a restart didn't do any good either.
I use 2.0.2 and have 152 feeds at the moment. Too many?
Anyone know what to do?
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Just curious - I don't want to know who they are, or spam them - I'm just wondering about a count.
--drkenfp

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