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Starson17 · 03-05-2010, 10:55 AM

I'm working on a recipe that will potentially have 150 "feeds," with a subset to be selected by the user. I've put "feeds' into quotes because they are not true RSS feeds. I know the feed URL, and I can calculate the article URL from the feed URL without needing to fetch anything. As a result, I'm using the parse_index method, which returns a feed title and a corresponding list of articles for each feed. I simply generate everything manually and return the generated results.
Each article for each feed gets a title, URL, date and description.

My question: Is it possible to supply (and display) descriptions for the feeds, not just the articles within each feed?

Thanks for any comments.

03-05-2010, 10:55 AM	#1
Starson17 Wizard Posts: 4,004 Karma: 177841 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T	Recipes: Possible to show a feed description? I'm working on a recipe that will potentially have 150 "feeds," with a subset to be selected by the user. I've put "feeds' into quotes because they are not true RSS feeds. I know the feed URL, and I can calculate the article URL from the feed URL without needing to fetch anything. As a result, I'm using the parse_index method, which returns a feed title and a corresponding list of articles for each feed. I simply generate everything manually and return the generated results. Each article for each feed gets a title, URL, date and description. My question: Is it possible to supply (and display) descriptions for the feeds, not just the articles within each feed? Thanks for any comments.