Help:RSS feeds

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Contents → RSS feeds

The RSS2Wiki extension allows you to add RSS feeds from any site onto a Memory Alpha page. This could be used for news feeds, to show entries from a related blog, or to show recent changes from a related wiki.

[edit] Adding an RSS feed

The basic code to add an RSS feed to a page is:

<rss> URL goes here </rss>

[edit] Variables

There are a number of variables you can add after the URL for the RSS feed. Each is separated by a pipe character ("|") (as in links and templates). The available parameters:

charset=: The character set used by the feed. For example, you may need to use UTF-8 to view some characters.
short: Do not show the description text for each news item.
date: Shows the date/time stamp for each news item.
max=: Allows you to choose how many items to show.
highlight=term1 term2: The terms added here (each separated by a space) are highlighted.
filter=term1 term2: Only RSS items containing at least one of the listed terms are shown.
filterout=term1 term2: No RSS items containing the listed terms are shown.
reverse: The RSS items are displayed in reverse order

So, for example, to add some Star Trek news to an article, you might use:

<rss>http://trekmovie.com/feed/|max=5|charset=UTF-8</rss>

This would result in:

Star Trek Villain Spoilers: There has been a lot of talk and speculation and even hints about who the bad guys are in the new Star Trek movie, including another hint from an interview with Anton Yelchin today. So TrekMovie.com has done a little digging to confirm what we all should know by now, and found a few interesting [...]
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