Just got a question from [[Rogers Cadenhead]] about the [[PyCS]] comment RSS feeds. You can get lots of different types of comment feeds. This information is taken from Georg’s PyCS RSS comment feed announcement mailing-list post.

The URL for your comment feed looks like this:

<code>http://www.pycs.net/system/comments.py?u=0000001&format=rss&full=1</code>

That gives you a feed for user #1. Change the number after ‘full=’ to get various different types of data in your feed:

• full=1: a feed with shortened description elements (only the first 40 bytes)

• full=2: a feed with full description elements

• full=3: the same as full=2, but including all comments (the others only include the last 14 days of comments)

So if you want to download all your blog’s comments at once, fetch with full=3. Subscribing to that might suck up a fair bit of bandwidth (I’d recommend full=2 for tracking comments in an aggregator), but if you need them all for some reason (changing comment servers?), use full=3.

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