Faceebook rss feed

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HI all,

I am having some problem while consuming rss feed from facebook. It is sending back http://www.facebook.com/browser.php as a response.This is the behaviour of facebook rss feeds. So i am not able to read it. Can anyone help me in consuming rss feeds in asp.net applications.

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Posted 3-Dec-09 17:28pm

sidharth.banyal

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Abhishek Sur · Answer 1 · 2009-12-03T21:29:00

Solution 1

I think Facebook news rss requires authentication?

browser.php redirects to PageNotFound error. :sigh:

I think this might be the issue with authentication.

Posted 3-Dec-09 21:29pm

Abhishek Sur

sidharth.banyal · Answer 2 · 2009-12-04T02:11:00

No authentication is right. There was some problem in code itself. Correct code for this is:

HttpWebRequest request = ((HttpWebRequest)(WebRequest.Create(strURL)));
request.Timeout = 10000;
request.UserAgent = "Code Sample";
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)(request.GetResponse());
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
StreamReader responseStream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), enc);
string strHTML = responseStream.ReadToEnd();
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml(strHTML);
DataTable dtRss = new DataTable();
dtRss.Columns.Add("TITLE");
dtRss.Columns.Add("LINK");
dtRss.Columns.Add("DESCRIPTION");
dtRss.Columns.Add("PUBDATE");
XmlNodeList rssItems = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item");
for (int i = 0; i < rssItems.Count; i++)
{

DataRow dr;
dr = dtRss.NewRow();
XmlNode rssDetail;
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("title");
if (rssDetail != null)
dr["TITLE"] = rssDetail.InnerText;
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("link");
if (rssDetail != null)
dr["LINK"] = rssDetail.InnerText;
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("description");
if (rssDetail != null)
dr["DESCRIPTION"] = rssDetail.InnerText;
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("pubDate");
if (rssDetail != null)
{
string strDate = rssDetail.InnerText;
DateTime dtPubDate = Convert.ToDateTime(strDate);
dr["PUBDATE"] = dtPubDate.ToLongDateString() + " " + dtPubDate.ToShortTimeString();
}
dtRss.Rows.Add(dr);
}

Thanks for your help.