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- If you request any of Feed43 feeds for at least 96 times in a 24-hour frame (approx. 1 request per 15 minutes), you will see your IP in 'Banned temporarily' list.
- If you request any of Feed43 feeds for at least 720 times in a 24-hour frame (approx. 1 request per 2 minutes), you will be banned permanently.
The new server is running as www3.feed43.com currently; as the new DNS values propagate, it will be running as feed43.com (this should be a transparent move).
As a positive note, the new server is running the newer version of Feed43 engine which should be faster and more stable, especially when dealing with Unicode pages and patterns.
While we are in the process of moving to a faster server, which can take couple of days, we are currently serving paid users only, to reduce the overall load. We'll keep you updated.
https://feed43.com/your_feed_name.xml
This, along with feed password-protection, will allow you to really secure your private feeds. We are likely to restrict this feature to paid feeds eventually, but currently you can use it with every feed.
Note that you can also use entire Feed43 site in secure mode (when creating or editing feeds, sending feedback to us, etc.). Just go to https://feed43.com instead of regular http://feed43.com address.
We are also planning to support https:// in feed source URL soon. Stay tuned.
This is the letter from one of Feed43 users:
I'm trying to make a feed off of a page that requires a search first.
It is a job bank and I want certain items defined first - like the type of job
and the county. However, the search results don't give off a unique
URL. Here is the site: http://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/IASAScripts/IASA.dll/JobSearchAny idea how I could get this to work?
The problem with this site is that whatever you want to search, it doesn't show you the full query in browser's address bar, because it uses POST method to transmit data to the server.
Feed43 uses only GET method, i.e. passes all parameters in URL string. Luckily, most servers that use POST method, also accept parameters passed in URL. The rest is simple: you need to peek into POST string transmitted to the server in question and append it to server URL being displayed in your browser. Here comes handy the Firefox browser with Live HTTP Headers plugin installed.
Here is step-by-step solution to customer's request:
- Open Firefox browser, choose Tools > Live HTTP Headers and make sure that '[x]Capture' checkbox is enabled.
- Switch back to Firefox without closing the Live HTTP Headers window.
- Open original search form (http://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/JobBank/View.asp) in Firefox browser.
- Fill out the form and press 'Search' button.
- When you get the results, switch back to Live HTTP Headers window again, scroll down to the end of report and look for a block starting with line: POST /IASAScripts/IASA.dll/JobSearch? HTTP/1.1
- At the end of this block you will see actual query line. It will look something like:
PositionType=5&Category=Other+School+Service+Personnel
&County=&Grades=&EmployType=&EmployType=100&SUBMIT=Search - This is what you need. Copy it to clipboard and then append to the URL you see now in FireFox browser. Your full URL will be:
http://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/IASAScripts/IASA.dll/JobSearch?PositionType=5&Category=Other+School+Service+Personnel
&County=&Grades=&EmployType=&EmployType=100&SUBMIT=Search - Use this URL in Feed43.
We will move from www2.feed43.com to shorter feed43.com address within a few days.
We tried our best to make our paid users continue to use this service without interruptions. As a side effect of disabling free feeds they have good times now as their feeds are being processed almost instantly. :)
But we still want to have a free version of Feed43 (this is why we called it so). Now we are busy porting the engine under mod_perl. This is a tough task, but worth doing. Current estimates show that scripts run about ten times faster. This is a good news.
Once we have the engine ported, we will move to a special server that will host Feed43, and launch it for public access again.
Our estimates for completing migration are about 3..4 weeks, if everything goes well. So, take a deep breath and wish us luck. We know you will miss Feed43 during this period.
As a temporary measure we serve feeds to paid users only.
Free users can still play around with the service and create/modify/preview their feeds, but can't request resulting RSS feeds, until we move to a faster server and optimize our engine for a better performance. Hope you will understand us.
We listened to all Feed43 users carefully, and tried to make our paid plans adequate. Here they are. See the comparison matrix of available plans and payment options.
Your comments and suggestions, as always, are highly appreciated.
- Now you can use {_} and {|} macros in search patterns:
- {_} is a 'white-space' macro, which matches any sequence of white-space characters including line-breaks, and skips it (doesn't add to search results, i. e. quivalent to {*});
- {|} is a 'line-break' macro, which matches a sequence of line-breaks, and skips it. - White space handling has been fixed.
- FAQ and context help has been updated.
- A new 'Delete feed' feature has been added. To delete an unwanted feed, log in to your account, open 'My Feeds' page, click on 'Expand details' for the feed you want to delete and see the 'Delete feed' link in the feed's details. Note that you can later undelete previously deleted feeds via 'Add feeds to your account / Undelete feeds' feature on the same 'My Feeds' page.
- Sometimes the login procedure would not work properly (you would see full feeds' details in 'My Feeds' page though at the top of the same page you would see a 'not logged in' message) -- fixed.
- Context help and FAQ has been updated.
- <BASE HREF="..."> tag is now taken into consideration when expanding relative URLs.
- URLs without quotes are now expanded and highlighted correctly. Parameters with href=/some/url syntax are now converted to href="/some/url". This will make it easier to build search patterns. However, this change might affect some previously created feeds. If you see some extra quotes around URLs in your feed, please edit your search patterns: instead of writing something like <a href={%}> use the following: <a href="{%}">.
- FAQ has been improved.
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060309/3036/
Compare it with the comments on Scobleizer:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/no-rss-feed43-lets-you-make-your-own/
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2006/03/feed43-reviewed/










