Comments on: Does your US Representative have an RSS feed? http://wubbahed.com/2009/01/22/does-your-us-representative-have-an-rss-feed/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dan http://wubbahed.com/2009/01/22/does-your-us-representative-have-an-rss-feed/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 Dan Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:43:06 +0000 http://wubbahed.com/?p=219#comment-1343 I enjoyed reading the article walking through the approach you used. You should consider deleting that initial comment, listed as comment 1 from 1/22. Its not constructive. I enjoyed reading the article walking through the approach you used.

You should consider deleting that initial comment, listed as comment 1 from 1/22. Its not constructive.

]]> By: Joe Germuska http://wubbahed.com/2009/01/22/does-your-us-representative-have-an-rss-feed/comment-page-1/#comment-1303 Joe Germuska Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:30:28 +0000 http://wubbahed.com/?p=219#comment-1303 I was trying to do some stuff with your data and found that there are ten cases where you have apparently valid feed URLs in your CSV file, but parsing that feed results in 0 entries. Checking further revealed that 9 of the 10 have problems with the autodiscovered RSS feed, and the tenth (Conyers) just should have been more careful with the redirects when moving the site to "conyers.house.gov" Burr[B001135] feed URL is different [http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed], but all entries have relative URLs which don't load. Conyers[C000714] website URL and feed URL have changed. With updated values, all is OK. [http://conyers.house.gov/, http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed] Costello[C000794] autodiscovered feed URL is 404 Cuellar[C001063] feed URL returns invalid XML Davis[D000599] autodiscovered feed URL is 404 Ensign[E000194] same as Burr, feed URL is different [http://ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed] but entries have relative URLs which don't load Hensarling[H001036] autodiscovered feed URL is 404 Holden[H000712] autodiscovered feed URL is 404 Johnson[J000174] same as Cuellar: feed URL returns invalid XML Tierney[T000266] autodiscovered feed URL returns 403 Forbidden So after taking out those, the "undefined" and the "htmlfixit" feeds in your datafile, I'm down to only 78 legislators having feeds. Still, this is a great way to draw attention to the issue. I was trying to do some stuff with your data and found that there are ten cases where you have apparently valid feed URLs in your CSV file, but parsing that feed results in 0 entries. Checking further revealed that 9 of the 10 have problems with the autodiscovered RSS feed, and the tenth (Conyers) just should have been more careful with the redirects when moving the site to “conyers.house.gov”

Burr[B001135] feed URL is different [http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed], but all entries have relative URLs which don’t load.
Conyers[C000714] website URL and feed URL have changed. With updated values, all is OK. [http://conyers.house.gov/, http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed
Costello[C000794] autodiscovered feed URL is 404
Cuellar[C001063] feed URL returns invalid XML
Davis[D000599] autodiscovered feed URL is 404
Ensign[E000194] same as Burr, feed URL is different [http://ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RSS.Feed] but entries have relative URLs which don’t load
Hensarling[H001036] autodiscovered feed URL is 404
Holden[H000712] autodiscovered feed URL is 404
Johnson[J000174] same as Cuellar: feed URL returns invalid XML
Tierney[T000266] autodiscovered feed URL returns 403 Forbidden

So after taking out those, the “undefined” and the “htmlfixit” feeds in your datafile, I’m down to only 78 legislators having feeds. Still, this is a great way to draw attention to the issue.

]]> By: Clay Johnson http://wubbahed.com/2009/01/22/does-your-us-representative-have-an-rss-feed/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 Clay Johnson Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:04:27 +0000 http://wubbahed.com/?p=219#comment-1298 This is really great! Awesome work. Maybe we can incorporate this into the Sunlight Labs API. This is really great! Awesome work. Maybe we can incorporate this into the Sunlight Labs API.

]]> By: randy http://wubbahed.com/2009/01/22/does-your-us-representative-have-an-rss-feed/comment-page-1/#comment-1297 randy Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:51:01 +0000 http://wubbahed.com/?p=219#comment-1297 fucking pathetic fucking pathetic

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