Yahoo! Alerts not updating RSS feeds?
I have been using Yahoo! Alerts to alert me to changes in my custom RSS feeds, crawled from CalTrans, for changes in the status of Interstate 80 over the Sierra. I noticed today that although my RSS feed has picked up the recent changes, Yahoo! Alerts doesn’t seem to be crawling it, and their view of it is 5 days stale at this point. There is no “refresh” button on Yahoo! Alerts, but I can see their list of items matches up with 5 days ago in my feed. I have it set to send me changes “as they happen”, since I need to know the road conditions to drive back and forth to Reno. Anything else is kind of worthless. What’s up with that?
June 10th, 2008 at 09:21:41
I’m noticing the same thing. I’m trying to alert on this yahoo pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=3CEpxMc23RGxWhcPmLokhQ&_render=rss&maxAsk=800&minAsk=250 and the pipe is getting new results but the alert is not real time. I got one alert at laround 9:00am, but I’m pretty sure the new items where there a bit before that (like an hour or two) Is it supposed to be real time? I would imaging that Yahoo Alerts would have to do some kind of poling in order to make that happen. That’s how InfoRSS firefox pluging works. I don’t think RSS pushes data. Did you ever get anywhere with this.