Comments on: Oops I slashdotted again

Question: Oops I slashdotted again

Leon-arto — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:40:17 -0800

Can I make an RSS feed of one person's Slashdot comments?

It's possible to make an RSS feed out of a Slashdot journal. Is it possible to do the same for that user's slashdot comment stream?

By: meta_eli

meta_eli — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:53:59 -0800

err, did you try?
http://slashdot.org/~$username/journal/rss

By: gen

gen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:05:02 -0800

Yahoo Pipes?

By: Leon-arto

Leon-arto — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:05:41 -0800

@meta_ali -- that's the journal, not the comment feed.

I'm looking for their comment feed, similar to what I see if I go to a user's userpage.

By: Leon-arto

Leon-arto — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:18:45 -0800

@gen

Brilliant! Web2008 >> Web2002.

By: Leon-arto

Leon-arto — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:47:34 -0800

Follow-up: Yep, it's possible to take a Yahoo! Pipe and do just about anything with a well-defined feed.

It's not easy. One has to be able to use regular expressions to get anything useful done. But it's doable.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:15:17 -0800

I asked a similar question and could never get the answer working. If you manage, please post details here.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:16:31 -0800

Come to think of it, "working" for me meant it included a standard date format, which it doesn't. Worked fine as a live bookmark though.

By: Leon-arto

Leon-arto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:16:55 -0800

I asked a similar question and could never get the answer working. If you manage, please post details here.

I think this is actually redundant with some of the comments on your thread, so thanks for the link. The dapper link is actually exactly what I needed.

Pipes is immensely powerful, but hard to deal with. If you want to get the full text of your comments you'll have to create two Pipes -- one will get a list of all of your comments, the second will fill in the details of each.

Messing around with Pipes led me to Feed43.com, which is a little bit easier, and feedity which is a lot easier.

On Feedity I just gave it an input URL and then hit "refine" to tell it what type of link I was looking for. The problem is that Feedity slaps a big old advertisement across your feed, but you can pay to get out of it.

What was the problem with your answers, especially Dapper?

By: Leon-arto

Leon-arto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:18:53 -0800

@krisjon

I'm still not sure what you mean by "standard date format", but I guess that you mean that each individual RSS item had a date that didn't match the date on which you made the comment. I'd run that through a Yahoo! Pipe. Copy the content into item.date and then run a RegEx looking for just a date format. It'll break if you have a date in your comment that is in the same format as the date format that /. uses, but it'll work 99% of the time.