RSS - EX.CO Motion Video from RSS feed

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Description

Ex.co allows you to dynamically generate catching video from the site content.

High-level requirements

  • Valid RSS feed
  • <link> from feed should be accessible


RSS parser work principle

In order for the EX.CO parser to support your RSS feed you need to know a few simple principles of how we get content to generate a video


Supported feed tags are (all of these tags should be under the <channel <item>REQUIRED_TAGS_HERE</item> </channel> tag):


Tag

Description

Required

<title>

Will be used as scene title

true


<link>

Will be used to access web page and parse content from html

true


<category>

Specifies one or more categories item belongs to.

false


<enclosure> or <content:encoded>

Will be used to get media content form it (images only supporter at this moment)

false


<isoDate> or <pubDate>

Will be used to include topic creation date to the scene

false


<author> or <dc:creator>

Will be used to include topic author to the scene

false

<media:content> and <media:group> more details

Will be used to get media content form it (images only supporter at this moment)

false

2. In case of required values - title, image can't be fetched from the feed, parser will try to grab content from the <link> tag link, and extract information from the web page. Parser will search for the content in the next html tags:


Tag

Description

Examples

<meta property="og:image" content="" />

An image for a video scene


<meta property="og:image" content="http://site.com/images/example.jpg" />

Any <address>, <a>, <link> with a class or rel attributes with author value

An image for a video scene


<a herf="http://test.com" class="author">Author Name</a>

You can find an example of a valid feed and page(s) under this link



Good to know

  • Supported image formats are JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg) and PNG (.png)
  • Scenes order in video based on <pubDate> or <isoDate> tag(s), ordered from newest to oldest. In case if those tags are not exist, scenes will be built in order <item> appear in feed, from top to bottom.
  • Parser sends requests with User-Agent: Playbuzz RSS parser header, in case if page is not available, we retry with an empty User-Agent header
  • Timeout for a request to RSS link and any link under <link> tag is 20s
  • Parser does not support any kind of authorizations and/or authentications
  • Parser support 301 redirects
  • In order to build a correct scene all media (images) content should be available for a direct download without any restrictions

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