RSS and XFML news feeds
RSS News feeds
The RDF Site Summary format is an XML listing of the latest 'interesting'
articles found. It is updated once every few minutes.
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/news/latest.xml
(cached RSS 1.0).
The system scans many online papers and news sources daily.
Online news sites are crawled continually.
You may poll as often as needed.
Atom feeds
Atom is another XML-based news feed format.
XFML Feeds
Also available are XFML feeds. XFML (eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language)
is a standard markup that can express some of the rich categorization
and indexing that bot automatically performs on breaking news.
URL Parameters, Switches
Options which change the output.
| url setting |
effect |
applies to |
| HTML |
RSS |
Atom |
XFML |
JavaScript |
xml=1
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output as RSS (1.0) RDF XML
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X
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rss=0.9
or,
rss=0.91
or,
rss=1
or,
rss=2.0
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output specific version of RSS XML
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X
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xml=atom
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output as Atom (XML)
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X
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xfml=1
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output as XFML lightweight topic (map) XML
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X
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javascript=1
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output as javascript
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X
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max=N
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output at most N items
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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q=querystring
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search for querystring
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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concept=conceptname
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search for conceptname
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X
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X
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X
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X
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X
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srclink=1
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link to original source site
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X
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X
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X
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X
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noconcepts=1
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in the descriptions, omit the listing of concepts
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X
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X
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X
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X
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merge=1
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try to eliminate apparent duplicates by selecting the most recent
article
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X [1]
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X [0]
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X [0]
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X [0]
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X [0]
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Examples:
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/index.cgi?xml=1&merge=1&concept=cannabis
Latest cannabis articles, as RSS (default RSS 1.0).
Merge to eliminate duplicates (i.e., the same article from different sources).
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/index.cgi?rss=2.0&merge=1&concept=psychedelic
Latest psychedelic articles, as RSS 2.0, eliminate duplicates.
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/atom
(Default) Atom feed of latest articles.
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/index.cgi?xml=atom&concept=methamphetamine
Latest methamphetamine articles, as an Atom feed.
Javascript
Another way to use our news feeds
is to use Javascript.
The javascript code snippet below will load up headlines, and print them out
separated by linebreaks.
Just copy and paste
the following into html pages wherever you want to see the headlines.
(See the table above for options that apply to javascript news feeds.)
Available Javascript information for each item:
| array name | contents |
|---|
| title | item's title |
| link | url to item |
| description | short summary/description of item |
| date | date system found the item |
| concepts | list of concepts detected in the item |
| domain | source domain of item |
How the feeds are created
The articles' text is downloaded, categorized, transformed,
and summarized.
Article text transformation consists of re-formatting, concept
detection, classification, and mark-up.
News feeds are served on demand.
Newsfeeds for searches and for specific concepts
are easily created. (Note the RSS link on searches.)
The
concept dictionary
defines the "concepts" used for the classification and markup process.
More RSS, XFML
Additionally, all site searches are available as RSS, Atom, or XFML feeds..
Simply perform a search; the corresponding XML, XFML, etc. for that search
is indicated by a link at the top of the search result page
[this search as   ].
Mapinc.org XML/RSS News feeds
About 150 drug-policy related RSS feeds. Grouped by Drug-policy topic,
and also grouped by area. All items are selected by drug-policy analysts
(mapinc editors) for relevance to drug policy.
see also:
RDF Rich Site Summary (RSS)
RSS background, history, links
xfml.org
eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language.
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