URL for Rainmeter RSS Feed? Feedburner?

[chekole]

Hi.

I wanted to set an Image rss feed for a rainmeter gadget.

So I clicked the Rss icon on the website, it gets me to feedburner site and it asks me to choose a rss client.

What should I do there? Where's the URL that I need for Rainmeter?

I've tried many urls and nothing works.

[jsmorley]

http://forum.rainmeter.net/feed.php

[chekole]

http://forum.rainmeter.net/feed.php

it opens a lot of code

can u please explain a little?

why did u post that url?

what does it mean?

[KreAch3R]

As I understand, you want to find out the RSS feed of one site. If you click on the icon and it takes you to a feedburner website, e.g.:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH

then this is the URL you need. The url jsmorley gave you is the feed for the Rainmeter website. You gave the impression in the first post that this is what you want. I hope I understand correctly.

[chekole]

As I understand, you want to find out the RSS feed of one site. If you click on the icon and it takes you to a feedburner website, e.g.:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH

then this is the URL you need. The url jsmorley gave you is the feed for the Rainmeter website. You gave the impression in the first post that this is what you want. I hope I understand correctly.

I'd like to grab pictures from this feed

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyPuppy

but when I set this url to the gadget it does nothing.

It had this another url and it was working but I don't know how to make my feed to look like this one:

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=38436807@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

[KreAch3R]

The skin you are using (specifically, the Webparser measure) is not compatible with the feed you want to use, probably. That means that the skins doesn't know how to "take" the images from your desired feed, because it differs from the one used in the first place.

If you would like to watch the code of the feedburner feed, right click somewhere on the page and click "view source" (at least in Chrome).

[jsmorley]

Sorry, I misunderstood... Somehow I read that you wanted the URL for the Rainmeter RSS feed.

Carry on...

[chekole]

The skin you are using (specifically, the Webparser measure) is not compatible with the feed you want to use, probably. That means that the skins doesn't know how to "take" the images from your desired feed, because it differs from the one used in the first place.

If you would like to watch the code of the feedburner feed, right click somewhere on the page and click "view source" (at least in Chrome).

Oh well, thank you. I didn't now that. Actually I don't know too much about feeds. I've always had troubles with them. Thanks for your time. I guess I'm gonna find another feed compatible with this gadget.

[KreAch3R]

Oh well, thank you. I didn't now that. Actually I don't know too much about feeds. I've always had troubles with them. Thanks for your time. I guess I'm gonna find another feed compatible with this gadget.

You can modify your current skin so that it supports the feed you want. You just have to read Webparser tutorials & guides. It's difficult at the beginning, but opens a lot of possibilities. Give it a try.

[Mordasius]

.. Actually I don't know too much about feeds. I've always had troubles with them. Thanks for your time. I guess I'm gonna find another feed compatible with this gadget.

If you change your mind and decide to have a go at editing the Regular Expression yourself, I suggest you download the Rainmeter Regular Expression tester by jsmorley http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=769.

It really does take (most of) the pain out of editing Regular Expressions to get exactly what you want from the source code of a particular webpage. For example, if you play around with the Regular Expression you can then put something like the following into the appropriate parts of whatever Raimeter Reader skin you are using

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[Variables]
StartPuppyFeed=(?siU)<title.*>(.*)</title>.*<link>(.*)</link>.*</image>
FetchPuppy=.*<title>(.*)</title>.*<media:thumbnail url="(.*)" />
... 
[RSS1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyPuppy
RegExp=#StartPuppyFeed##FetchPuppy##FetchPuppy##FetchPuppy##FetchPuppy##FetchPuppy#
UpdateRate=7200
StringIndex=1

[MeasureRSS1-1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[RSS1]
StringIndex=3

[MeasureLink1-1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[RSS1]
StringIndex=4
Download=1

[MeasureRSS1-2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[RSS1]
StringIndex=5

[MeasureLink1-2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[RSS1]
StringIndex=6
Download=1

... and so on down to [MeasureRSS-5] and [MeasureLink1-5]

You can then view the pictures by clicking on puppy names displayed by the following meters

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... 
[Puppy-1]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=sTextStyle
MeasureName=MeasureRSS1-1
LeftMouseUpAction= !Execute [!ShowMeter MeterImage-1]

[Puppy-2]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=sTextStyle
MeasureName=MeasureRSS1-2
LeftMouseUpAction= !Execute [!ShowMeter MeterImage-2]

... etc. down to [Puppy-5] followed by

[MeterImage-1]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=sPicStyle
MeasureName=MeasureLink1-1

[MeterImage-2]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=sPicStyle
MeasureName=MeasureLink1-2

.... and so on down to [MeterImage-5]

If you only want to access bigger pictures you could change #FetchPuppy# to the following

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[Variables]
FetchPuppyPic=(?siU)<title.*>(.*)</title>.*<link>(.*)</link>.*</image>