Import the Digg Feed

By michal frackowiakmichal frackowiak

Description

It is easy to import a news feed in the "easy" way. But let us say you want full-blown news from Digg… OK, here it is. Let's use the "Technology" feed located at http://digg.com/rss/containertechnology.xml

For more info please also look at the Feed module documentation.

Code

[[module Feed src="http://digg.com/rss/containertechnology.xml" limit="10"]]
[[div style="float:left;background-color: #ffea6b; background-image: url(http://digg.com/img/digg-box-1-shade-5.gif); width:4em; text-align: center; margin: 0 0.5em 0.5em 0;border-bottom: 1px solid #edda67; border-right: 1px solid #edda67; color: #555;"]]
[[size large]]**%%custom digg:diggCount%%**[[/size]]
diggs
[[/div]]
[[div style="margin-left: 5em"]]
++ %%linked_title%% 
[[span style="color: #666; font-size: smaller"]] [[image %%custom_digg:submitter_userimage%% width="16" height="16" style="vertical-align: -0.3em;"]] submitted by  [http://digg.org/users/%%custom_digg:submitter_username%% %%custom_digg:submitter_username%%]  on %%date%%[[/span]]

%%description%%

[[span style="font-size: smaller; padding-top: -1em;"]] [%%link%% %%custom_digg:commentCount%% Comments] | [%%link%%/blog Blog this] | [%%link%%/share Email this] | Topic: %%custom digg:category%%
[[/span]] 
[[/div]]
[[/module]]

In action

{"module":"feed\/FeedModule","params":{"src":"http:\/\/digg.com\/rss\/containertechnology.xml","limit":"10","module_body":"[[div style=\"float:left;background-color: #ffea6b; background-image: url(http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/digg-box-1-shade-5.gif); width:4em; text-align: center; margin: 0 0.5em 0.5em 0;border-bottom: 1px solid #edda67; border-right: 1px solid #edda67; color: #555;\"]]\n[[size large]]**%%custom digg:diggCount%%**[[\/size]]\ndiggs\n[[\/div]]\n[[div style=\"margin-left: 5em\"]]\n++ %%linked_title%% \n[[span style=\"color: #666; font-size: smaller\"]] [[image %%custom_digg:submitter_userimage%% width=\"16\" height=\"16\" style=\"vertical-align: -0.3em;\"]] submitted by [http:\/\/digg.org\/users\/%%custom_digg:submitter_username%% %%custom_digg:submitter_username%%] on %%date%%[[\/span]]\n\n%%description%%\n\n[[span style=\"font-size: smaller; padding-top: -1em;\"]] [%%link%% %%custom_digg:commentCount%% Comments] | [%%link%%\/blog Blog this] | [%%link%%\/share Email this] | Topic: %%custom digg:category%%\n[[\/span]] \n[[\/div]]"}}

You can of course improve the formatting or customize the feed. In particular you can of course combine several feeds — just separate different RSS sources by a coma delimiter (",").

The hack presented above does not aim to reproduce the exact digg-style but shows that using the simple tricks you can come quite close. And of course it demonstrates the power of Wikidot ;-)

For more details please consult the Feed module documentation.


Thanks to tsangk for this great snippet: conditional-blocks


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