I wrote a simple utility class last night which, given a url, goes and sees if there is the <link> tag which points to the RSS file. I needed this because I was trying to utilize FOAF files to create a meta-aggregator. The idea came from Chumpologica but I wanted to do the same in Java.
The basic flow is with one FOAF file go thru all of the people the person knows, see if they have a weblog and then see if that weblog has a RSS feed. I haven't done more than yet but so far it's working out pretty well.
Here's the RssChecker source code. Like I said, it's really simple but it does the job.
Posted by Josh at August 18, 2003 09:42 AM | TrackBack