Guild Wars RSS Feeds

Hi Eugaet,

It seems like others are doing it already, but I'm wondering if it is ok for people to add this feature to their own sites? I do a Guild Wars podcast at www.guildcast.com that also uses RSS and I'm thinking of adding this feature to the front page somewhere. Thanks!

I run Dragonfly CPG (aka Php nuke version 6 complete re-write) and It sounds like you would have to create a custom block. Your in the same situation as I am, http://www.gw-rotp.com (right side blocks).

I would look to see if someone created a rss / web view module to display that result. Considering how many mods there are for php nuke, I bet someone has one somewhere.

Yeah, this is me not realizing there were replies to my thread...

Eternal did a good job answering this one (glad someone was monitoring my thread for me...). You'd have to find a custom RSS block for your CMS. The screenshot you're referring to is of my feed in the Sage feed reader extension for Firefox, using the default style. You can check out the CSS source for the style here, which might help if you decide to make one yourself.

Would anyone (besides xBEASTx, of course) be interested in an RSS block for your CMS that would display it similarly to a full-fledged feed reader instead of just the links? If there's enough interest (and it hasn't already been done), I may look into it.

Thanks. I guess I could consider putting a donate link somewhere, but you're the first that's offered...

Yep, anyone is free to add any of these feeds to their website. At least until my host or ANet complains...

Aaaand...it looks like ANet has published the new website design. I'll see about getting the feeds working with the new design.

EDIT: OK, the Current News and Game Updates feeds have been updated. The Guild Ladder feed has not been affected...yet. Please let me know if there's a problem with any of them.

Decided to take a look at the stats for each of the feeds. The numbers below are hits from unique IP addresses per day.

Guild Wars :: Current News feed
27/Jan/2006 71
28/Jan/2006 60
29/Jan/2006 73
30/Jan/2006 75
31/Jan/2006 86
01/Feb/2006 81

Guild Wars :: Game Updates feed
27/Jan/2006 55
28/Jan/2006 44
29/Jan/2006 53
30/Jan/2006 55
31/Jan/2006 60
01/Feb/2006 53

Guild Wars :: Guild Ladder feed
27/Jan/2006 11
28/Jan/2006 4
29/Jan/2006 9
30/Jan/2006 13
31/Jan/2006 19
01/Feb/2006 16

All I've got to say is...
I figured there were about 10 of you, maybe 15...but ~70-80 subscribers on the news feed? Sweet.

<-- on all 3.. using sage

great rss feeds

thought the new site might of given u some trouble but i was wrong

Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...the news and updates pages were structured pretty much the same as before with minor changes to the HTML/XHTML tags. I had to redo most of my regex strings, though. Waiting to see what they do with the ladder. I imagine any changes to it won't take place until after the GWWC.

So they may roll their own in the next few weeks/months...although I'm sure they don't mind using my bandwidth to provide these.

Have you thought about making a network status feed. As for as RSS it really doesn't provide usefull info as the others, it would be a great server status mointer for web pages (and restrict to only 1 news feed shown at the time - if thats possible).

http://www.guildwars.com/aboutgw/net...ws/default.php

Just an idea, not sure if this is doable warrent the time to do the work.

Again, great job, and thank you for all your hard work. Espically after the gw page change.

Actually...yes, I had planned on making one, but decided it wouldn't make for a good feed because of the rarity of an update. But, yeah, that would be good for a website if you wanted to display the network status. I'll see if I can get one put together this weekend.

I also considered doing one for the Community News page. Does anyone want a feed for that page?

Any other pages that deserve one?

EDIT: OK, Eternal, you've got your Network News feed. We'll have to see what it looks like if/when the page is updated...hopefully they just change the info and not the structure of the page. And I really wish I could add more than 4 images to my main post. I like those orange XML tags.

Okay this will sound wierd.

since gwguru has there pvp ladder part. but doesnt seem to be updating
and since my guild is nowhere NEAR l33t enough to be in top 20.. is it possible to change the rss for the ladder or make an alt one to display all guilds on the gw ladder site (top 1000)

Not weird at all. I had actually considered something like this a while back, just never got around to it. So I guess I'll do it now.

I added a 'page' variable to the Guild Ladder feed that takes an integer between 1 and 50 and displays the 20 rankings on the specified page. Not quite what you were looking for, but all I had time for during lunch. I'll look at doing a full top 1000 list later (if you really want it).

The page variable is used as follows:

I'm going to add some variables so you can chose by which column to order the list and whether the order is ascending or descending. I'm also still looking at a switch to set that'll make the first item a header row.

sounds good..
the optional page thing isnt too bad an idea.
however i think getting all 1000 onto 1 page might require an rss OF an rss for the pages *shrugs* not too sure how all that stuff works.. but its informative and saves alot of clicking

I've finally added a donation link to my wiki, which you can find here.

I haven't received any complaints regarding bandwidth usage (yet), but there's a handful of people out there who have their websites/feedreaders set to poll every 1 minute. They're pulling 50-75MB of bandwidth in one day for feeds that add up to about 15KB-50KB or so, depending on how many you are subscribed to. I'm not going to worry about it unless my hosts starts complaining, but seriously...do you really need to have it set to poll every minute? Kinda funny...

I've been away from most all my projects for a while now (aside from the RSS updates for the new GW website). I'm planning on working on the RSS feeds some more in the near future, though, so if there's any feedback on them in their current state, now's the time...

And I'll be taking a look at a Top 1000 Guild Ladder feed, skretth.

Hey, can you help me? I have tried figuring out how to use the RSS feed, but I am very new to the HTML and stuff like that. I was wondering if you would just add what needs to be added to the HTML below?
Guild Name: Keeper of the Void [Void]

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Guild Wars HQ - Guild Ladder</title>
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<em><b>Guild Information</b></em>
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Last Paladin, you might check this site for some free tools that will create a javascript block you can place in your HTML to display the feeds.

Most of the other sites displaying the feeds are using RSS plugins for their respective CMS system. You are coding your site by hand? Admirable...

LOL, the only way that I know how to make a website is by hand. Never tried and webpage editors....
Thanks for the link

Most of the other sites are using pre-built CMS systems, like e107, Dragonfly, etc. You can find just about any one of them here. In case you decide not to start from scratch or if you want to dig through the source code of some of them to figure out how they work.

I'm aware that none of my feeds except the Guild Ladder one are working and I plan on trying to update them throughout the day if I can find the time. So please bear with me, I've been very busy with other responsibilities lately.

Well...I updated the Current News and Game Updates feeds. But I'm experiencing an intermittent problem. Every 3rd-4th time I check my feeds, they come up blank, no items listed. I click on them again and all the items show up correctly. Another 2-3 checks later...blank.

Not sure if it's my feedreader/browser, if it's my host...I'm monitoring some of the guild sites that are using my feeds and some looked good, others I'm still waiting to refresh. No sites seem to be having the problem I am.

Anyway, let me know if anyone is having any problems with the Current News and/or Game Updates feed. Hopefully, it's just me.

EDIT: OK, well, http://www.gw-rotp.com finally refreshed and it's not showing up correctly. So I'm trying to figure out what's going on. This is...interesting, to say the least.

EDIT2: Hmmm...other sites that refreshed the feed after RotP show it correctly. Think I'm going to let it ride for tonight and check all the sites again in the morning. This may be related to some issues that my host has been having recently. So bear with me for a day or so.

Eugaet, want to thank you again for your hard work in this.

No problem, glad to help out the GW community.

Looks like the two updated feeds are working well this morning. Let me know if anyone is having any problems.

I'll try and fix the Network News feed this weekend and maybe (finally) get around to those Guild Ladder feed updates that skretth wanted.

GuildWars seems to be rolling out some RSS feeds but not as many as you've done. http://www.guildwars.com/support/rss/

It appears that the GW Ladder is not implemented from Anet's Feed. Just the news and patches.