Feed on Favorites September 6, 2010 11:48 AM   Subscribe

How can I create an RSS feed out of the 7 day popular favorites page on the Blue? If that's not a feature, well, there's my pony request.
posted by Taft to Feature Requests at 11:48 AM (7 comments total)

I'm aware of these feeds, but the PopularFeeds includes AskMefi. I'm looking for Blue-posts only.
posted by Taft at 11:52 AM on September 6, 2010


You could make a Yahoo pipes version that only allowed posts from www.metafilter.com, of that popular feed page, then it'd filter out the rest.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:00 PM on September 6, 2010


I s'pose I could. I only requested it because you've made specialized feeds for many other things, so why not the popular favorites page?
posted by Taft at 1:07 PM on September 6, 2010


Doesn't an RSS feed publish in a linear fashion? The popular favourites page is dynamically generated based on favourites. How would that work?

I don't know much about RSS feeds.
posted by ODiV at 2:03 PM on September 6, 2010


I'll add it to the to do list.

Doesn't an RSS feed publish in a linear fashion?

Yes, but it'd still work. You wouldn't know where a particular post ranks, how high it gets, or when it falls off. Anything that makes the list would show up as new for you in a newsreader, though.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:26 PM on September 6, 2010


Here's the new feed: Popular Posts at MetaFilter.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:25 AM on September 7, 2010


I love you pb.
posted by Taft at 1:56 PM on September 7, 2010


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