To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] RSS at night.
titleBBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition/title
linkhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/default.stm/link
descriptionUpdated every minute of every day/description
languageen-gb/language
Hi,
One possible approach would be to have your
programmealter the time between updates dynamically.
For example: you fetch the news at 1am .. and then
again at 1:15am and find there's been a new story. This means something is
happening, so you reduce the time until the next fetch to 10
Duncan,
If you look at my prototype, you can see
the frequency of publication at any time of day (or night!), it might give you
an idea of how often you should poll the feed:
http://www.solutionseven.co.uk/bbc/default.aspx?y=2005m=5d=25
Rich.
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nSent: 28 May 2005 11:04To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] RSS at
night.
This isn't
necessarily a great heuristic to use since you are coding in certain
presumptions about the way the news stories are posted.This is the case
for any type of approach based on a
, it
is probably updated more regularly at times.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Hurst
Sent: 28 May 2005 21:06
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] RSS at night.
Some rss feeds provide a ttl tag (time to live) which
Sent: 27 May 2005 21:01To:
backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] RSS at
night.
Duncan doesnt want to know
how often the max is, but rather an average time between major stories that
get onto the front page. Basically the site will be busier during the day, but
not during
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