The per-post XML feed is actually supplied to everyone viewing a particular blog post - it's clearly marked in the HTML but appears to be switched off in the CSS (it's out there, they can't make it un out there ;) )
So for example, a comments feed for a most interesting recent post on BBCi Labs, is http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/blog131/rss/acs?dnauid=movabletype131_40565 It's pretty clear from this URL that BBCi Labs has a blog ID of blog131 but alas http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/blog131/rss/acs?dnauid=movabletype131 does not give us anything :( > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Miller > Sent: 22 November 2008 10:48 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Two questions: Comment Blogs and EU proposals > > There is a way to get the comments to output in an xml format > to make them easier to scrape off of each blog post and > parse. But it is per blog post and not a central feed of all > comments. It appears they are driven by the h2g2 software, so > someone involved in that section of the bbc site might be > able to point you to a raw feed of all comments within a forum. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/blogs/ <-- posting/accessing > directly is restricted to invite only, i suspect it only > works when added to a blog by SSI. > > I'm sure Ian can find out if it is possible to open up some > form of official comment feeds to backstage. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Sent: Saturday, 22 November, 2008 8:55:43 > Subject: Re: [backstage] Two questions: Comment Blogs and EU proposals > > "1. Is there any way to access the blog comments that users > make in response to some articles/opinions that appear in the > BBC news or other sites? I am some colleagues are interested > to develop some applications for such comments." > > Not sure the blog system has an RSS feed of comments. > > If you need data to prove a proof of concept then Have Your > Say has an RSS feed of comments > http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/rss/rssmessages.jspa?forumID=5700 > > You can get more than the standard 20 or so messages it throws out by > adding &numItems=500 to the URL. There's a hard coded upper limit of > how many messages which is something like 200 or 500. > > Best > > Paul > BBC Future Media & Technology (Journalism) > > > > > > > > > 2008/11/21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm new on this list. > > > > Two questions. > > > > 1. Is there any way to access the blog comments that users make in > > response to some articles/opinions that appear in the BBC news or > > other sites? I am some colleagues are interested to develop some > > applications for such comments. > > > > 2. Does anyone know how I can successfully contact members of the > > Innovation Culture team at BBC Research and Innovation? I > am writing > > an EU Framework Programme 7 proposal which I would like to pitch to > > the Innovation Team, the BBC being a "use case" for which we would > > gather data, requirements, and test a prototype system. I've tried > > calling and emailing, but had no success so far. I think the BBC > > would be very keen to participate in this project and find > it very useful. > > > > If you want to know more about the proposal, you can check out a > > workshop I co-organised. It is on legal language, but the FP7 > > proposal is more general. See the conference site -> Workshops -> > > Natural Language Engineering of Legal Argumentation: > > > > http://www.ittig.cnr.it/Jurix08/ > > > > Cheers, > > Adam Wyner > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > Unofficial list archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
