As of about 10 minutes ago the Beta version of API4RSS is here!

Let me know if you get any problems at all by using the contact link on the right

Ollie

All the content and API’s you can get from here now have an option to make them compatible with any website powered by Media Wiki. This includes our fiend, The MillionDollar Wiki!

If you want to have your site specifically supported by us please use the contact form

Thanks

Ollie

That’s right the site is almost ready for launch. The only thing I am waiting for is the hosting company to set up the official domain. This should be any minute now. But as it’s the weekend I expect it to me Monday morning!

The API is ready. All RSS feeds will work. At the moment ATOM feeds are not. The best way to get an ATOM feed through the API generator is to go to Feedburner and burn your feed. This can then translate your feed into any type you want. Plus the stats you can get on it are amazing. Highly recommended!

Cheers

Ollie

After a while working this out there is now an ajax contact form. I want everything on this site to be as seamless as possible, except the obvious links to other pages. So this new contact form will continue that trend.

Also this will hopefully reduce spam. When you submit the form it doesn’t use the usual submit HTML style form tag. This is what spammes pick up and use from their own “spam maker” or whatever software they use. Instead it uses JavaScript and ajax to send. All the code is well hidden even if you wanted to send spam you will have to hunt around a hell of alot. But by that point they could have spammed someone else alot more!

Anyway the site still isn’t live yetm but i will be moving the site to the live server very soon! So when you read this it will be live. So imagine this being a message from the past or something like that!

Cheers

Ollie

PS
More pain in the ass compatability issues with the contact form but all sorted in a few minutes!

Firstly I love Firefox, until about 6 months ago I was a massive fan of IE (Internet Explorer) as I had never tried anything else. Then when I got even deeper into web development I started to see that even thought IE has about 75% market share they are not 100% compliant with web standards.

But now that I use Firefox so much I develop my code to work primarily with Firefox then adjust it to fit with IE and then Safari. Once I have those 3 done that is 99% of the market covered.

So I started with Firefox, then got to Safari and found some new problems with the way IE handles the :Hover tag in CSS stylesheets. There were a few other problems that gave me a few headaches today. But an hour later I thinkI have solved those problems sucessfully.

If you have any questions please use the Contact form, it will then come straight to me.

Cheers

Ollie

Hello!

Welcome to the first post. I am pretty sure you will be reading this after the site has officially launched. This is all on the hush hush at the moment and is on my secret server. If you search hard enough you will find it though!

Right so this is API 4 RSS. It’s a site I just had the random idea of making and it met a few of my needs and the needs of others. The original thought came to me when I bought a Million Dollar Wiki page for my blog and added the RSS feed and had to create my own RSS reader in ASP. A few other people then asked to do the same thing. Obviously they need a web host but they also needed some ASP knowledge. But now with this tool you need virtually no knowledgeof web technologies at all. Just a bit of HTML is it really.

Anyway if you have any questions please go to the main page and choose “Contact” from the page at the top!

Cheers

Ollie