Where is the "All Comments" RSS Feed?

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noahcoad Posted: Tue, Jul 11 2006 11:14 AM

I want to subscribe to a feed that shows the comments for any post on my blog.  Is this possible?

I know I can subscribe to comments per post, but there's no way I'm going to do that for every post I make.  I rarely ever log into Community Server, but do everything through RSS & the MetaWeblog API.  There is an RSS feed for posts on the blog, how about comments on the blog (independant of a specific post)?

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Hey Noah:

What version of CS is this?  I suspect you are on CS 1.1, where this was first implemented but at a post-by-post level true.

But in CS 2.0, the blog owner can turn on notification for comments in the normal control panel for the entire blog.

Hope that helps!

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Noah,

There is not a single RSS feed for all comments in a blog. As you mentioned, Community Server provides a RSS feed for each blog post to get the comments for that post.  You could subscribe to each one manually like you said via the URL in the comment section at the bottom of each post on the web site. But obviously that is painful.

However there is a much easier way to track comments without having to visit the web site.  In your main blog RSS feed, there is a CommentRss element every post/entry that provides the url to the comment RSS feed for that post.  It looks like this:

<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/commentrss.aspx?PostID=663846</wfw:commentRss>

This is based on a mini-spec originally proposed by Chris Sells (http://wellformedweb.org/news/wfw_namespace_elements/).  Many modern Feed Readers, such as RSS Bandit, recognize the commentRss element and provide a simple way to view comments right in the feed reader.  For example some of them have a plus sign next to the post if comments are found and clicking it displays the comments from the CommentRss feed.

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noahcoad replied on Thu, Dec 28 2006 2:22 PM
The whole point is being able to aggregate comments into one view without having to go to each post to see comments.  A feed to represent the same view as the "Review Comments" CS dashboard.  Please consider it a feature request for a future version of CS.  Thanks!
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daveburke replied on Thu, Dec 28 2006 3:32 PM

Noah,

This AllCommentsRSS CSModule by Ken Robertson should fix you up if you're on your own hosted site.

http://qgyen.net/archive/2006/09/18/Qgyen.AllCommentRss-with-Spam-Filtering.aspx

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This solution is so close to something I'm looking for (in fact I've installed and plan on using Ken's module, thank you Ken!)

However I have a slightly different scenario.  I have a small CS instance running for my extended family... 8 blogs plus gallereis, forums, etc.  We're looking for something that aggregates all comments from ALL blogs on the CS instance, not just 1 blog at a time.  Also this feed should be public facing, so it wouldn't need the approve/edit/delete links provided in Ken's secure RSS feed approach.

Anyone have any suggestions on this?  Maybe tweak what Ken did or a different approach?  I thought for a minute about using Ken's module to set up a 9th blog on the site with mirrored feeds coming in from the other 8 blogs, then from there we could use the RSS feed from the 9th blog to keep track of the comments being submitted on the other eight.  But that sure seems like a round-about way of going about this.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

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gsherman replied on Wed, Jul 25 2007 7:08 PM

I know this is an old post, but I have the same need - a feed for all comments on all blogs.

Perhaps I'm just a CS noob, but I haven't found a way to do this.

Any ideas/suggestions? 

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