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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 |
---|---|---|
| Will be used as scene title | true |
| Will be used to access web page and parse content from html | true |
| Specifies one or more categories item belongs to. | false |
| Will be used to get media content form it (images only supporter at this moment) | false |
| Will be used to include topic creation date to the scene | false |
| Will be used to include topic author to the scene | false |
| 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 |
---|---|---|
| An image for a video scene |
|
Any | An image for a video scene |
|
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 emptyUser-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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