feed lookup service only returns 1 result?

Joshua Bronson

2008-11-07 19:22:57 UTC

relevant ticket at http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug/ticket/322

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From: Joshua Bronson <jabronson-***@public.gmane.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: feed lookup service only returns 1 result?
To: Google-AJAX-Search-API-/***@public.gmane.org

Okay, will do. Thanks again for the quick and thorough followup.
Josh

Josh --
Don't worry about the suggestion vs. defect. Only the issue tracker admins
can change that (not by choice).
Your expectations of feedFind and feedLookup are correct. We are pulling
the feedLookup results from another service at Google, which is the service
responsible for indexing the feeds. It only pulls one feed per site, and
<link rel="alternate">
As the single feed to associate with a site.
While I agree that this isn't a perfect model, it's probably not likely to
change at this point. So I'd encourage you to rely on finely tuned findFeed
requests to grab more than one feed associated with a site.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Ben

Post by Joshua Bronson
Hey Ben,

Hey Josh --
So I updated the ticket

Thanks.

but it looks more like it would be a 'suggestion' than a 'defect'.

Agreed. When I created the ticket using
http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/entry, there didn't seem
to be a way for me to specify 'suggestion' rather than 'defect'. Did I miss
something?

The lookup isn't supposed to return more than 1 item, but the feed find
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/find?v=1.0&q=site:http://ianbicking.org
With a bit of modification in the query, maybe it will serve you better?
Let me know if it works. If it does then I will mark the ticket as a
suggestion and 'will not fix' because I think that the feed find would be
the correct tool for the job.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's definitely a nice workaround, and it's
possible I'll be able to use this instead, though I have to think about it
some more. But for the sake of argument if nothing else, feed find and feed
lookup do serve two distinct purposes: find takes some search terms and
returns related feeds, whereas (as I understand it) lookup expects the url
of an html document and returns (currently only the first of possibly many)
feeds referenced in it. For this particular use case, I would want to plug
in "http://ianbicking.org", and get back all two feeds referenced via
<link rel="alternate"...> inside http://ianbicking.org/index.html, and no
others. This seems more like the intended purpose of lookup rather than
find, and I'm guessing the only reason lookup caps results at one is to
be conservative. Maybe it could instead return the first n, up to a certain
maximum that Google allows. If it's too much of a hassle to implement
though, I can continue to roll my own for this particular service.
Thanks again for the helpful reply.
Josh
Regards,

Ben

This issue was marked fixed on 10/15 but actually isn't. I said as
much in a comment but there has been no further activity. Can someone
with edit-issue privileges please update the ticket?
http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=111
Thanks,
Josh

http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=111
In case anyone else is interested in starring.
On Sep 11, 12:57 pm, "jgeerdes [AJAX APIs \"Guru\"]"

If this is a feature suggestion, you'll want to post it to the issue
tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=-.
..

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