My first experience with GAE

written by Andrey Khoronko, on Mar 30, 2009 1:46:00 PM.

Few days ago I wrote a couple of web services based on Google App Engine. Both of them powered by webapp framework and Universal Feed Parser library.

Feed to Sitemap converter

The first one (link) is a converter from RSS/Atom/CDF syndicated feeds to Sitemap protocol.

Usage:

http://feed2sitemap.appspot.com/converter?feed=FEED_URL

where FEED_URL is an http or https URL of feed.

You can use Sitemap cross submission for using this service with your website. Just add a single line to your robots.txt like here:

Sitemap: http://feed2sitemap.appspot.com/converter?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fkefafala.com%2Ffeed.atom

Blogger says ‘Hey!’

The second service (link) is a multi pinger for notifying different search engines that your blog has updated.

Service is looking for the latest entry into the submitted feed, then send (only if new entries was found) an XML-RPC signal to ping servers and finally returns feed’s content. For example you can subscribe to your own blog feed via this service and pings will be sent automatically (as your feed aggregator soft will periodically run a scan for updates).

Usage:

http://bloggersayshey.appspot.com/retransmitter?feed=FEED_URL

where FEED_URL is an http or https URL of feed.

It used the following ping servers:

http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

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