RSS Feed and Guide spam

simbosan 2018-11-07 05:18:50 UTC #1

Hiya

I just subscribed again in time for GUIDESPAM!

One thing I preferred about RPS over say Eurogamer (yeah I know!) was that i didn’t have to skip a bunch of

HOW TO WIN THE BEST MOUNT IN …
HOW TO MAX YOUR ARMOUR IN…
HOW TO… (that’s enough HOW TO, Ed)

Could we have an RSS feed that I don’t have to ignore half of? If I want guides I will Google, they aren’t appropriate for a news feed because, well they aren’t news except in the way that NEWS! I JUST MADE A GUIDE!!!

A separate feed would be awesome sauce and I could just read the writing that I enjoy here.

Cheers

Somini's Guide to RPS RSS Feeds

BillButNotBen 2018-11-07 12:50:25 UTC #2

This is probably not exactly what you’re after, but there are feeds for each category, for example this one for the news category:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/pc-game-news/feed/
There should be similar ones for Features, Reviews, etc… though I don’t know how they handle things that appear in more than one category… but you might be able to wrangle them to roll your own feed.

I’m not sure there’s a central list of feeds, but if you go into each catergory on the site and look at the source code and Ctrl-F for “feed” then you should be able to find them.
(or probably just add /feed/ to the end of the URL… that’d be easier… )

Maybe it’ll help as a stopgap at least.

Though, actually, I don’t know if Guides get included in News or Features or another one.

alms 2018-11-07 13:54:51 UTC #3

If there isn’t, maybe you can put together one? I’ll pin it.

somini 2018-11-07 20:05:13 UTC #6

This is also relevant to my interests (cut down RSS feeds), so I found lists:

Tags: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tags/?letter=a

Each tag has an RSS feed: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/ubisoft-montpellier/feed/

The tags are well organized, not much repetition. There are single games, series, devs, etc. Some are repeated, though.

Authors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors

Each author has an RSS feed: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/author/gonnas/

There must be a list of site categories somewhere.

Each page has the correct <link> tags, so you can just add it to your feed reader and it should find it correctly. Each has the main feed, the main comments feed and the page feed. Articles also have per-article comments feed.

somini 2018-11-07 16:19:21 UTC #7

There are also per-game custom feeds:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games?letter=a

This leads to a page like this, with filters on the left:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/game/beyond-good-and-evil-2/

Filtering to this, as an example: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/game/beyond-good-and-evil-2/?search=&type=features&y=&m=&sort=title

Stick a /feed on the front and tadaa:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/game/beyond-good-and-evil-2/feed?search=&type=features&y=&m=&sort=title

alms 2018-11-07 20:07:09 UTC #8

Some scissors work and a little glue later:

simbosan 2018-11-07 21:54:40 UTC #9

Good info, thanks much. I can’t seem to find a way to exclude. It’s not practical to create a bunch of RSS feeds to include everything, but not guides. That would be a fair few feeds and prone to error, if a new tag appeared it would not show in my feed

Appreciate the info though, thanks for taking the time.

alms 2018-11-07 22:27:33 UTC #10

Just thinking aloud, here, isn’t there some service that will ‘multiplex’ different RSS feeds into a custom one? Would you be able to exclude guides, that way?

simbosan 2018-11-08 00:58:09 UTC #11

Hi Alms, thanks much for taking the time to reply. An aggregator would have the same problem, what if I miss a tag, or a new tag is created. I would never know as I use RSS as my only route into RPS. I don’t visit the site directly as a matter of course.

No worries, but I hope the admins read this and realise that guides are really not cool or interesting to some. I would rather read opinions (in other words journalism)

EDIT: I have used feed aggregator to create a feed combining the main article type feeds;
http://www.rssmix.com/

Using the following feed URLs
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/featured-articles/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/pc-game-reviews/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/pc-game-news/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/hardware/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/videos/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/supporters-only/feed/

I thought it was working but the pc-game-reviews, videos, and supports-only feeds are blank.

So close!

This gave me the following feed

http://www.rssmix.com/u/8302269/rss.xml

simbosan 2018-11-08 01:43:43 UTC #12

So i found tags to work for the 3 empty feeds and fed them into RSSMix
http://www.rssmix.com/u/8302271/rss.xml

Using the following URLs!
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/featured-articles/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/review/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/pc-game-news/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/category/hardware/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/video/feed/
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/Supporter/feed/

Wonder if this works and IF I SEE A GUIDE THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!!!

EDIT: Some articles show up in my combined feed that don’t show in my usual feed, win! eg.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/07/this-pirate-hat-sums-up-how-i-engage-with-the-cowboy-game/

I will stop spamming now

Cheers for all the feedback

sabrage 2018-11-20 06:56:49 UTC #13

Finally, my Tim Stone-chute can be pure.

somini 2018-11-21 01:59:54 UTC #14

This reminds me, you can stalk forumites with RSS too. A random example:

https://forum.rockpapershotgun.com/u/sabrage/activity.rss

This very thread:

https://forum.rockpapershotgun.com/t/30655.rss

sabrage 2018-11-21 09:37:10 UTC #15

I am flattered, yet perturbed. May my enemies never turn me into a Twitter bot.

LTK 2019-01-15 14:39:10 UTC #16

After seeing the same Fortnite season 7 guide pop up in my feed multiple times in the same week I finally pulled the trigger and switched to the guideless feed. Much thanks.