From: Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell@...>
Date: 2009-04-04T20:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: how come i cant grab all rss items from a feed

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I'd suggest you check which headers your browser is sending. Particularly
the Last-Modified and Etag. Replicate those and you will see the same amount
of items.
Ben

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com>wrote:

> When i try and access the bbc feed it will only return the latest 40
> results. However if i use the same feed in google reader, it can return
> a lot more. Why is this and how do i modify the code below so that i can
> return more results.
>
> Heres some code
>
> require 'rss/1.0'
> require 'rss/2.0'
> require 'open-uri'
> require 'rss/parser'
>
>
> source =
> "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/uk_news/rss.xml"
> # url or local file
> content = "" # raw content of rss feed will be loaded here
> open(source) do |s| content = s.read end
> rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
>
> (rss.items.length == 40ish)
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>
>

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