Anyway to filter the advocacy RSS feed?

Adrian Cotter

We would like to use the advocacy RSS feed, but find that it doesn't quite suit our purpose, as it can contain things we don't necessarily want showing up there. So it would be nice to be able to filter it based in any number of ways.

Possible?

mark.ajws

Your best option would probably be to run it through pipes.yahoo.com and filter it in whatever way you want.

Adrian Cotter

mark.ajws :

Your best option would probably be to run it through pipes.yahoo.com and filter it in whatever way you want.

That's a good thought, thanks.

Alas, looking at the RSS - it does not really like there is much to filter on in the feed itself:

    <item>
      <title>Call on Congress to Support Clean Energy Jobs!</title>
      <link>https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&amp;id=2085</link>
      <description>Tell you Representatives and Senators to support bills moving through Congress that establish renewable energy and energy efficiency standards in order to reduce global warming pollution and create new clean energy jobs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Sierra Club</author>
      <guid>https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&amp;id=2085</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sierra Club</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-28T05:00:00Z</dc:date>
    </item>

None of the associated issues, priority, nor which center the action might have come out of. Things like number of signers would be a bonus. Of course some of those would not fit too well into your standard RSS setup, but issues at least and center could map into a categories fields.

Noah Cooper

Adrian Cotter:

That's a good thought, thanks.

Alas, looking at the RSS - it does not really like there is much to filter on in the feed itself:

    <item>
      <title>Call on Congress to Support Clean Energy Jobs!</title>
      <link>https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&amp;id=2085</link>
      <description>Tell you Representatives and Senators to support bills moving through Congress that establish renewable energy and energy efficiency standards in order to reduce global warming pollution and create new clean energy jobs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Sierra Club</author>
      <guid>https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&amp;id=2085</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sierra Club</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-28T05:00:00Z</dc:date>
    </item>

None of the associated issues, priority, nor which center the action might have come out of. Things like number of signers would be a bonus. Of course some of those would not fit too well into your standard RSS setup, but issues at least and center could map into a categories fields.

Adrian,

One option would be to create a PageBuilder page, insert the Alert List component using a filter by issue. Then, use Yahoo Pipes to scrape the page and turn it into an RSS feed. Alternatively, you could use some kind of key in the action alert's description (e.g. |healthcare|) and look for that in the Advocacy feed.