Tuesday 31 July 2018

New filtered Zazzle rss feed tool, pin-for-pin compatible

Edit: See next post for one you can use for real

Yaay! Happy dance - I've got the pin-for-pin compatible filtered Zazzle rss feed working without resorting to YQL at all. I am using YQL to in the widget to actually get the feed but the feed itself doesn't use it.

As an example, here it is in use.

This is a Nifty live product grid widget using it. It's filtering out all product designs with any of lawyer, red or crimson in their titles.

⚠️ NB For now, the filtered feed is limited to 10 product designs, so it's ok for playing with but can't be used for live websites.




For now, there's no set-up mechanism for it, so what I did was to use the Nifty Control Panel to set up things initially, selecting in Step 2 to make a new nIFTTTy scheduler. Here's the important part from the scheduler set-up page:



You can see I've selected a part of feed - it's the part needed to get everything for the widget's feed thingy. The whole thing looks like thi (note the s:
https://niftytoolz.com/nifty-zfrss-feed.php?rf=238582202591969585&udf=true&trm1=lawyer&trm2=red&trm3=crimson&lttls=1&ldscs=&ltags=&t1s=5:00am&t2s=2:00pm&t3s=5:00pm&t4s=&t5s=&t6s=&t7s=&t8s=&t9s=&t10s=&t11s=&t12s=&dowc=127&uprn=1&cdt=1533067453&fdspc=https%3A%2F%2Ffeed.zazzle.com%2Fhightonridley%2Frss%3Fqs%3D%26st%3Dpopularity%26sd%3Ddesc%26ps%3D15%26pg%3D1%26dp%3D%26cg%3D%26at%3D238582202591969585%26bg%3Dffffff%26isz%3D500%26tc%3Dfltrdfeed_demo

And I've pasted it into the relevant part of the widget's html code as shown here, replacing what was put there by the Nifty Promo Control Panel when I generated the widget.

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Don't worry if none of this makes any sense, I'll be changing the Nifty Promo Control Panel to do it all for you with a few clicks.

Edit to add: I also had to take out the tracking code that was being added by the widget, as that's now done within the feed mechanism.