Question on Feeds

agallia

I have read the SM Wiki Feed Examples and still have a couple of questions:

1. I have been using the Recent Photos Feed but find that it often includes too many photos, even those where watermarks were simply added. Is there any way to limit the # of photos in the feed?
2. Exactly what is included in the Recent Galleries Feed? New galleries and galleries that have added or edited photos?

Thanks.

devbobo

Sorry, the wiki documentation is a little out of date. Answers below..

Cheers,

David

agallia wrote:

I have been using the Recent Photos Feed but find that it often includes too many photos, even those where watermarks were simply added. Is there any way to limit the # of photos in the feed?

adding the following to the feed url will limit the number of photos...

&Paging=0&ImageCount=X where X is the number of photos you want to return.

agallia wrote:

Exactly what is included in the Recent Galleries Feed? New galleries and galleries that have added or edited photos?

yes

agallia

devbobo wrote:

Sorry, the wiki documentation is a little out of date. Answers below..

Cheers,

David



adding the following to the feed url will limit the number of photos...

&Paging=0&ImageCount=X where X is the number of photos you want to return.


yes

Thanks much, David. Lastly, is there any way to limit feed to a specific category?

Tomkirk23

The Recent Galleries feed seems to contain all the galleries, sorted by the date of the last photo uploaded to the particular gallery. The imagecount parameter certainly affects how many of these galleries are included. To test this, take the feed url and paste it into your browser address box and press enter.

However, if you are using a feed reader or Feedburner: If you add photos to an existing gallery, the existing gallery will not appear in the feed reader (or an email will not be sent in Feedburner) because you have seen this gallery already. Feed readers and Feedburner track what they have already showed you and only display the delta.

I think this issue is at the heart of the recent question.... Is there a way for the Recent Galleries feed to be coded in a way that causes a gallery to display in a feed reader or Feedburner whenever new pictures are added to it.

Thanks,

Tom K.