Weagel/Andreas not quite. SANDY FOUND AN EASY ARCHIVE SOLUTION! 4 Steps nonetheless!
Chris and Andreas, The following URL is NOT an RSS feed: http://www.human-dog.com/lab/?page_id=165 It's a webpage where you have to sit and manually download each video. It's a nice way to see an archive, but not quite what I was asking. I was looking for an automatic way to download all of these videos with an aggregator, and Marcus Sandy has actually found a simple solution that I describe below. But FYI: There is no RSS feed on this page, and no way to plug a URL into either iTunes and FireANT and do a direct download of all of these videos. And the page you've put together doesn't work with the method I describe below to get this XML feed URL, but I think you can fix it with the changes I propose at the end of this message. HOW TO GENERATE AN XML FEED FOR A MONTH'S WORTH OF ARCHIVES IN FOUR EASY STEPS! Now I think Marcus Sandy has actually figured out a potential easy solution to how to plug in one URL into webjay.com and have a way to generate an XML URL that can be used in iTunes or the Windows version of FireANT to download a month's worth of archives. Try plugging these two XML urls into iTunes or the Windows version of FireANT: http://webjay.org/podcast/xml/playthispage/apperceptions3aoctober2005 http://webjay.org/by/playthispage/ryanne5c27svideoblog2823229.xml It works! AWESOME! Now Marcus, I've been able to successfully duplicate what you've done, and it's really quite simple. STEP 1 Copy the URL from one of your monthly archive links from either typepad or blogger such as the following: http://apperceive.blogs.com/apperceive/2005/10/index.html (Typepad) http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ryanedit_archive.html (Blogger) STEP 2 Replace ":" with "%3A" so that the URL look like: http%3A//apperceive.blogs.com/apperceive/2005/10/index.html http%3A//ryanedit.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ryanedit_archive.html STEP 3 Add "http://webjay.org/playthispage?url="; to the begging of the URL http://webjay.org/playthispage?url=http%3A//apperceive.blogs.com/apperceive/2005/10/index.html http://webjay.org/playthispage?url=http%3A//ryanedit.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ryanedit_archive.html STEP 4 Browse to the URL, right click on "Podcast RSS" and copy the XML Feed from named "Podcast RSS" Or click on "Podcast RSS" button and highlight the URL following: "Copy this link into your reader:" FOR http://webjay.org/playthispage?url=http%3A//apperceive.blogs.com/apperceive/2005/10/index.html "Podcast RSS" = http://webjay.org/by/playthispage/apperceptions3aoctober2005.xml FOR http://webjay.org/playthispage?url=http%3A//ryanedit.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ryanedit_archive.html "Podcast RSS" = http://webjay.org/by/playthispage/ryanne5c27svideoblog2823229.xml Now I can plug this Webjay-generated XML "Podcast RSS" feed into iTunes or the Windows version of FireANT and BAM! -- you can now download a month's worth of archives. Brilliant. Thank you so much Marcus! QUESTION: Anyone want to take up making "archive download" "download this month" buttons that integrating these archive feeds into their site? Other people should also try creating XML feeds for each month of their archive and do some testing in iTunes / Windows version of FireANT -- there's bound to be other gotchas that will need to be ironed out and explained in Freevlog. See, I knew there had to be a simple solution. Now for Josh Kinberg and the FireANT team: I'd *really love* for the Mac version to be able to download more than the first two videos in a feed. The windows version can do it, but not the Mac. It'd be great to be able to use these webjay-generated archive feeds to download a whole month's worth of videos on my Mac. Hopefully this can get on your radar screen if it isn't already. :) And Josh, the atom spec may indeed support this as well, but I was waiting for a much simpler solution like this that didn't depend on a wider adoption for atom. QUESTION Anyone want to take up pushing to get this archive RSS feed built into blogspot or typepad? Or someone to code up a Wordpress plug-in? Any other blog platforms / developers listening who want to provide a simpler solutions than these 4-steps, and one that can also send the text of the blog entries to the windows version of FireANT? Webjay has shown that it's possible and simple. Finally, Chris Weagel: The pages you generated and provided do not provide a valid XML file using the 4-Step Webjay Archiving Method. It gives the error: "The web page at http://www.human-dog.com/lab/?page_id=165 has no music links that Webjay can find." That's because the HTML is only pointing to the URL and not directly to the media file: For example, you point to http://www.human-dog.com/lab/?p=63 When you should really have a direct link to the media in the code: <a href="http://www.human-dog.com/lab/HDvidblogs04/011305.mov";> Try adding links to the media files in these pages, and go through the 4 steps outlined above, and let me know if you get it to work. Look at the HTML of these two pages that work to see if you're missing anything else. http://apperceive.blogs.com/apperceive/2005/10/index.html (Typepad) http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_ryanedit_archive.html (Blogger) Now let's start seeing some archive feeds popping up! Thanks again Marcus, -Kent Bye. http://www.echochamberproject.com http://feeds.feedburner.com/EchoChamberProjectVlog ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). 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