RSS-Spider

Over the past year, one of the things I get emailed about constantly is support for an API. People want to be able to add in RSS-Feeds without having to come to the site and sign in every time. So hold on… API support is coming soon. You’ll be able to generate an API key for use with our system and then build apps & other cool tools to add RSS feeds, RSS channels to our database PLUS with little api programming pull activity reports.

Right now the API is in closed beta. I’ll be opening it up in Q3 some time so stay tuned.

11 PM Friday night… Working on a project tonight in the Windows version of MySql terminal, baby sound asleep in the next room, I’ve got my speakers turned way down and am listening to Drone Zone on Somafm.com when I copy & paste a rather large sql update query into my dos MySql window.

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* plus its WAY LOUDER than I have my actual volume set at! What the HELL! *BEEP* *BEEP* and on and on and on and I couldn’t close the window. Then the baby’s up and crying bloody murder!

Baby back to sleep at 1am.

NEW PROJECT KILL SYSTEM BEEP IN WINDOWS

20mins of screwing around with the volume & sound settings and the damn thing is still on… 1 minute of Googling and found this page which WORKED LIKE A CHARM!

http://blog.netnerds.net/2007/05/5-ways-to-stop-windows-vista-xp-2003-from-beeping/

Put some time into the spider tonight. It’s been in seriously sad shape for the last 10 or so months. Having a baby really put everything on the back burner. Had several big screw ups in coding which caused everyone signing up for a new account to encounter a 404 page when trying to validate themselves. The link was firing off to my development server which is behind a firewall. Fixed that, fixed a problem with password generation. However, this was nothing compared to the problem I found and fixed just now. About two weeks ago I noticed that the amount of content seemed to have peeked at around 15,000 and that the number of new feeds wasn’t sky rocketing like it had in the past and had also peeked at 62,000. Well winds up somewhere along the line I was testing the spider and FORGOT to pull out the text code… soooooooooooo the content spiders were scanning the same 500 websites.

ugh

Going to Google and searching for anything right now returns “This site may harm your computer.” and trying to click though on anything leads to a page like this… (here I’ve search for GOOGLE on Google)

Here’s the search results page for the term Google… notice every single one of them returns the warning!

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