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1. 

   schmiddy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   Hey everyone,

   I think it would be extremely useful to have an RSS feed for specific categories. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this?
2. 

   Anthony Theocharis
   Key Master
   Posted 1 year ago

   While this functionality is planned for future versions of MediaCore, you can build your own, for now, using the API accessible at http://yoursite.com/api/media?category=CategoryName. This will return JSON with links to the media view pages, etc.

   You can see a better description of what GET args are accepted, and what data is returned, by looking at the index method in http://github.com/simplestation/mediacore/blob/master/mediacore/controllers/media_api.py

   Hope this helps,
   Anthony
3. 

   schmiddy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   Thanks for the advice.

   I ended up going a different route and used the PHP SimplePie library to merge all of our podcast feeds into one.

   We're leveraging MediaCore a little differently, using "Podcasts" as "Message Series" at our church. So instead of having people subscribe to each message series every time a new message series is released, we have a master podcast feed which auto-discovers all of the feeds from the "http://yoursite.com/podcasts" page.

   Here's the script below if anyone is interested. Keep in mind you'll still need to download the SimplePie library and put it in the same directory as this script. http://simplepie.org/

   <?php
   require_once('simplepie.inc');
   //define the feed you are looking to discover
   $feed = new SimplePie('http://yoursite.com/podcasts');
   $item = $feed->get_all_discovered_feeds();
   $n=0;
   foreach ($feed->get_all_discovered_feeds() as $link)
   {
   	$url[$n] = $link->url;
   $n++;
   }
   $feed = new SimplePie($url);
   $feed->handle_content_type();
   ?>
   <!--This info will define your master iTunes feed details -->
   <rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
   	<channel>
   			<title>Podcast Title</title>
   			<link>Site Link</link>
   			<language>en-us</language>
   			<docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs>
   			<atom:link href="http://www.colonialpoint.com/podcasts.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link>
   			<description>Description</description>
   			<itunes:subtitle>iTunes SubTitle</itunes:subtitle>
   			<itunes:summary>iTunes Summary </itunes:summary>
   			<itunes:category text="INSERT ITUNES CATEGORY HERE">
   				<itunes:category text="INSERT ITUNES CATEGORY HERE (if more than one)"></itunes:category>
   			</itunes:category>
   				<managingEditor>FEED EDITOR</managingEditor>
   				<itunes:author>Author (Displayed in iTunes)</itunes:author>
   				<itunes:owner>
   					<itunes:email>Owner Email</itunes:email>
   					<itunes:name>Publisher Name (Appears in iTunes)</itunes:name>
   				</itunes:owner>
   			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
   			<image>
   				<url>Link to Podcast Image URL displayed in itunes</url>
   				<title>Image title</title>
   				<link>Image Link when clicked</link>
   				<width>128</width>
   				<height>128</height>
   			</image>
   			<itunes:image href="iTunes image URL"></itunes:image>
   			<copyright>2010</copyright>
   			<?php
                        //lets loop through the feeds and pull back the media for each. Sorted by newest first.
   			foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item)
   			{
   				$author = $item->get_item_tags('','author');
   				$itunesauthor = $item->get_item_tags('http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd','author');
   				$itunessummary = $item->get_item_tags('http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd','summary');
   				$itunessubtitle = $item->get_item_tags('http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd','subtitle');
   				$itunesduration = $item->get_item_tags('http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd','duration');
   				$ituneskeywords = $item->get_item_tags('http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd','keywords');
   				$mediathumb = $item->get_item_tags('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/','thumb');
   				$enclosure = $item->get_item_tags('','enclosure');
   				$mediacontent = $item->get_item_tags('http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/','content');
   			?>
   <item>
   				<title><![CDATA[<?php echo $item->get_title(); ?>]]></title>
   				<guid><![CDATA[<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>]]></guid>
   				<pubDate><![CDATA[<?php echo $item->get_date(); ?>]]></pubDate>
   				<comments><![CDATA[<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>#comments]]></comments>
   				<author><![CDATA[<?php echo $author[0][data]; ?>]]></author>
   				<itunes:author><![CDATA[<?php echo $itunesauthor[0][data] ?>]]></itunes:author>
   				<description><![CDATA[<?php echo $item->get_description();?>]]></description>
   				<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<?php echo $itunessummary[0][data] ?>]]></itunes:summary>
   				<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[<?php echo $itunessubtitle[0][data] ?>]]></itunes:subtitle>
   				<itunes:duration><![CDATA[<?php echo $itunesduration[0][data] ?>]]></itunes:duration>
   				<itunes:keywords><![CDATA[<?php echo $ituneskeywords[0][data] ?>]]></itunes:keywords>
   				<media:thumb url="<?php echo $mediathumb[0][attribs][''][url] ?>" width="<?php echo $mediathumb[0][attribs][''][width] ?>" height="<?php echo $mediathumb[0][attribs][''][height]?>"></media:thumb>
   					<enclosure url="<?php echo $enclosure[0][attribs][''][url] ?>" length="<?php echo $enclosure[0][attribs][''][length] ?>" type="<?php echo $enclosure[0][attribs][''][type] ?>"></enclosure>
   					<media:content lang="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][lang] ?>" medium="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][medium] ?>" url="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][url] ?>" expression="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][expression] ?>" fileSize="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][fileSize] ?>" duration="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][duration] ?>" type="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][type] ?>" isDefault="<?php echo $mediacontent[0][attribs][''][isDefault] ?>"></media:content>
   			</item>
   			<?php
   			}
   			?>
   </channel>
   </rss>

   Hope this helps someone!

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