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Reputation: 20237

How do you get the related articles cluster in a Google News RSS feeds?

Google includes the following requirement to use there RSS news feeds:

Include a link to the Google News cluster of related articles for each news item, using the link provided in the Google News feed.

This link should have a collection of other articles that are related to the current item. One of the xml properties in each nodes in there RSS feeds is something that looks like this:

<guid isPermaLink="false">tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=43982360597436</guid>

However, I'm not able to figure out how to use this to get a list of related articles. Does anyone know how to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 841

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 9955

You need to be looking at the top of the RSS feed, and in particular the <link> node which contains the link to the news cluster.

For example:

<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <generator>NFE/1.0</generator>
    <title>Google News</title>
    <link>http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&topic=snc&ncl=dd_4rHFR0wfHJ5M35r9VmSXgpLESM</link>
    <language>en</language>
    <webMaster>[email protected]</webMaster>
    <copyright>&amp;copy;2014 Google</copyright>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:31:53 GMT</pubDate>
    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:31:53 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    ...

Here, the URL in the <link> node will take you to a page showing all related articles which forms the news cluster.

Upvotes: 1

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