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Optimize your feed
Introduction
FlashBeing uses feeds to aggregate data in real time from the whole web (See introduction page for more). In order to make yur feed compatible and optimized for FlashBeing, please accomplish the following steps.

• To check if a feed is already optimized, or which optimizations need to be applied, use the Feed Tester tool

• Include most recent 25 up to 250 items in your feed

• All potential dangerous tags, such as script ones, will be automatically removed

• Ads will not be removed (See ads optimization page for more)
Requirements
FlashBeing supports the following feed formats:
It's mandatory to respect the structure of a feed as declared in it's specification. For example an RSS feed must be structured as delcared in W3C of the RSS Feed 2.0 format page.

Here is an example of an RSS Feed that will be correctly interpreted by FlashBeing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>My website - Main News</title>
<link>http://www.mywebsite.com/news</link>
<description>This feed features the main news of my website</description>
<item>
<title>News 1</title>
<link></link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:45:15 +0200</pubDate>
<description>News 1 description</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
All present tags in this example are mandatory. In case one or more of these are missing, the user will be notified that the website can't be followed.

When FlashBeing fetches a feed, it uses the channel->url tag (declaration can be different according to the feed format) to obtain the website's domain, which will be used to save the website in FlashBeing's database and make it searchable trough the embedded search engine. If that link is missing, broken or not matching the domain of the feed, the platform will notify that it's not possibile to follow the feed.

Each domain can host an infinite number of Feeds; FlashBeing will crate separate pages for each one of them and the user will be able to follow each one in one or more Groups of Sources.

• If possibile, use the Connected Web feed format for the best end user experience
Content optimization
Be aware that when FlashBeing parses a content it uses a set of conditions, such as the length of a text, the size of attached images and more to define the type of content and show it in the best way.

This means that if you include only parts of your original content in your feed and/or low resolution images without declaring their resolution, your content may be displayed wrongly.

If an item doesn't include a title or at least an attached file, it wont be displayed.


This are some best pratices to optimize contents for FlashBeing:
  • If you want to show an article, always include it's full text, if possibile formatted with html tags and images.
  • If you want to show an image, keep it's description short (max 260 characters) and include an image with the shortest side at least 1920px long.
  • If you want to include a video in the text of your article, don't use iframes but only HTML5 video tags.
  • If you want to show a content as a video you need to use the Video body element of the Connected Web format.
  • Always include images with at least 1600px long. FlashBeing will automatically resize your images according to client's screen resolution and device.
  • Don't include images for smilies or to share contents on third party platforms. Smilies are automatically interpreted by FlashBeing and sharing is embedded in the platform.
  • Always follow this guidelines to include ads in your contents.


This are some fixes to the most common cases of wrongly displayed contents:
  • My articles are shown as images: you need to include a longer description or the full text of the article to let the platform correctly understand that you are sharing articles and not images.
  • My images are in low resolution: you need at least to include images which are large 1600px. 1920px is reccomended. FlashBeing will automatically resize your images according to client's screen resolution and device.
  • Publish date is wrong: please make sure that the publish date is included in each item of your feed and that it's declared correctly. Don't use words that words that are not in english for RFC 2822 date declarations. For example Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:00:00 +0100 is correct, Mar, 21 Dic 2000 17:00:00 +0100 is not.
  • Contents from my feed are always at the bottom of the stream: the publish date may be incorrect. Please fix it as described in the previous step.
Optimization of RSS feeds
Because RSS Feed is such an old format with a lot of variables, the following lines describe how to optimize it for FlashBeing. For Atom and Connected Web feeds you can safety relay on official specifications.

  • <content:encoded>
    • Use this tag to declare the HTML-encoded text of an item.

    If images are larger than the resolution of the screen, they're will be fitted using the entire width available.

    Example: <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/imgnews1.jpg" height="126" >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia <strong>deserunt mollit anim</strong> id est laborum.
    <ul>
    <li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</li>
    <li>Suspendisse in nisi eget nunc commodo ullamcorper vitae et felis.</li>
    <li>Nam elementum viverra nunc, ac molestie velit consequat nec.</li>
    </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
    <ul>
    <li>Integer eu leo in enim commodo consequat eget nec ante.</li>
    <li>Etiam euismod dapibus sapien, vel pellentesque nulla aliquet interdum.</li>
    <li>Cras ac est ac turpis pretium ullamcorper et sit amet arcu.</li>
    <li>Fusce dapibus libero sit amet quam luctus consectetur et vel felis.</li>
    <li>Etiam id est vitae urna ornare dignissim.</li>
    </ul>]]></content:encoded>
    And the content will be displayed in the following way: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
    • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
    • Suspendisse in nisi eget nunc commodo ullamcorper vitae et felis.
    • Nam elementum viverra nunc, ac molestie velit consequat nec.

    • Integer eu leo in enim commodo consequat eget nec ante.
    • Etiam euismod dapibus sapien, vel pellentesque nulla aliquet interdum.
    • Cras ac est ac turpis pretium ullamcorper et sit amet arcu.
    • Fusce dapibus libero sit amet quam luctus consectetur et vel felis.
    • Etiam id est vitae urna ornare dignissim.
    • We strongly encourage to include the whole article text or at least an extended description for the best end user experience.


  • <enclosure url="IMAGE_URL">
    • This tag indicates the image FlashBeing must use for the article. The advised dimension is 1600x1660 pixel, format jpg, compression level 50. Usage example: <enclosure url="https://fbwcdn.com/image/main/background10.jpg" type="image/jpeg"/>
    The following extensions are supported:
    • jpeg
    • png
    • gif
    Example
    Following that, her is an example of an article, that is complete and optimized for FlashBeing:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <rss version="    2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">
    <channel>
    <title>My Website - Main News</title>
    <link>    http://www.mywebsite.com/news</link>
    <description>    This feed contains all the main news published by my website</description>
    <item>
    <title>News 1</title>
    <link>    http://www.mywebsite.com/news/notizia1</link>
    <pubDate>    Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:45:15 +0200</pubDate>
    <description>    News 1 description</description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Testo articolo 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia <strong>deserunt mollit anim</strong> id est laborum.
    <img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/imgnews1.jpg" >
    <ul>
    <li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</li>
    <li>Suspendisse in nisi eget nunc commodo ullamcorper vitae et felis.</li>
    <li>Nam elementum viverra nunc, ac molestie velit consequat nec.</li>
    </ul>
    </p>
    <p>
    <ul>
    <li>Integer eu leo in enim commodo consequat eget nec ante.</li>
    <li>Etiam euismod dapibus sapien, vel pellentesque nulla aliquet interdum.</li>
    <li>Cras ac est ac turpis pretium ullamcorper et sit amet arcu.</li>
    <li>Fusce dapibus libero sit amet quam luctus consectetur et vel felis.</li>
    <li>Etiam id est vitae urna ornare dignissim.</li>
    </ul>]]></content:encoded>
    <content:type>article</content:type>
    <enclosure url="//social.mbblog.it/develop/image/imgnews1100p.jpeg" type="image/jpeg"/>
    </item>
    </channel>
    </rss>
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