How to get an RSS feed for the whole community?

[efavreau]

In answers.splunk.com, there was an rss feed for whenever anyone posted a new question.

When someone posts a question, I want to know as often as I have set the RSS feed reader to poll. So I could poll on demand (or once a day or whatever) and find the new posts, without having to figure out how to navigate into each section of this site, figure out if I saw the message or not, and end up missing questions I could help on.

I found a way to get all posts using Subscriptions within community.splunk.com, but that's not going to work for me. Is there a way to replicate the old RSS functionality of answers.splunk.com, in community.splunk.com?

[spayneort · Accepted solution]

Many pages on the community list related RSS feeds in their source. The source for https://community.splunk.com/t5/Community/ct-p/en-us contains 16 RSS links, including one for "All board posts in Community" - https://community.splunk.com/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&interaction.style=forum&feeds.... 

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New board topics in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=forum"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All board posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_0" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=forum&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New knowledge base articles in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_1" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=tkb"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All knowledge base posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_2" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=tkb&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New blog articles in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_3" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=blog"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All blog posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_4" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=blog&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New idea exchange ideas in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_5" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=idea"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All idea exchange posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_6" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=idea&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New contest entry in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_7" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=contest"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All contest posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_8" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=contest&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New Questions in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_9" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=qanda"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All Questions, Answers, and Comments in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_10" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=qanda&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New Products" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_11" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=review"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All Reviews and Comments" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_12" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=review&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="New media posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_13" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=media"></link>

<link class="lia-link-navigation hidden live-links" title="All media posts in Community" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" id="link_14" href="/oqeym24965/rss/Category?category.id=en-us&amp;interaction.style=media&amp;feeds.replies=true"></link>

[efavreau]

@spayneortGreat find! Those links are hidden. I was looking for something exposed.

Also loved the API find. That may come in useful too.

Appreciate the solutions - Thank you!

[spayneort]

There is also an API that could be used to bring the data into Splunk.

Example:

https://community.splunk.com/api/2.0/search?q=SELECT+*+FROM+messages

Reference:

https://devdocportal.lithium.com/t5/Community-API-v2-Reference/bd-p/restv2docs