I just tried it, and saved the feed, worked for me. I just checked the logs, if you don't put http:// gives me a no file found error Maybe I should check for that to give a proper error message or just automatically prepend it.
On Aug 6, 7:33 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > It fails when I point it to my website. thadeusb.com. > > Cool concept though. > > -- > Thadeus > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Lasiaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > I used urllib to get html stuff, then used gluon.html TAG for the > > filtering jQuery style. > > Here are some of problems I encountered while using the TAG from > > though: > > 1. I needed to reencode the string to utf-8 cause it was throwing > > errors if its not proper utf8 - maybe this should be automated? > > 2. I also throw an error when there is something like '<scri'+'pt>' > > which is found on google analytics, so I just stripped out all script > > tags. > > 3. There are malformed html, without closing tags or something - this > > one was difficult, I didn't think if it is internally supported to get > > fixed so I had to google and find out if there are built stuff to fix > > it and I found BeautifulSoup.prettify() which will fix it - maybe this > > should also be built in TAG() cause TAG is so awesome, I can do > > everything in DOM very easily. > > > On Aug 6, 3:28 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 > > >> How does it work? > > >> On Aug 6, 2:46 pm, Lasiaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Hi All, > > >> > This is my first web2py application.http://feedcreator.appspot.com > > >> > What it does is create rss feeds for sites that don't have rss feeds. > > >> > I did this for a whole day, web2py is so easy to learn I did this > >> > without knowing much about web2py and python. > >> > Since I finished this project, I decided to do all my own projects > >> > using web2py. > > >> > - Lasiaf
