Popular Questions Feed?

October 31, 2009 6:24 PM

Is there an RSS version of http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorites?

I think this is the right place to ask. I checked the FAQ and there's a Posts and Comments but nothing Question or AskMe specific.

posted by pwnguin to feature requests at 6:24 PM (6 comments total)

No, but there's a feed for Popular Favorites across all sites.
posted by pb at 6:25 PM on October 31 [1 favorite]

Yeah, it's not just a popular posts/comments feed, it covers all sites, including ask mefi
posted by mathowie at 6:33 PM on October 31

Looks like that corresponds to a best in the last 7 days? I suppose I can strip out the non ask.metafilter items.
posted by pwnguin at 6:35 PM on October 31

Yeah, seven days. The Popular Favorites feed is the top 20 posts across sites in the last week.
posted by pb at 6:38 PM on October 31

I guess then for posterity, I'll note that I used:

xmlstarlet ed -d "//*/item/link[not(starts-with(text(),'http://ask'))]/.."

to delete all the non questions from the feed.
posted by pwnguin at 7:11 PM on October 31

Yes, but for November it is at: http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfaves
posted by clearly at 2:48 AM on November 1 [2 favorites]