Newsfeed - Help

If your questions are not addressed below, you can contact newsfeed at animenewsnetwork.com to get help.

To display the news on your website, there are 3 basic steps to follow:

1. Get the news using the getnews.php script
   In order not to cause unnecessary load on our server, we ask that you only fetch the news once every hour or so.
2. Save the news
   In order to control bandwidth as well as who uses the newsfeed, the getnews.php script will only return text when something has changed from the last time. This means that you have to store (to a database or a file) what is returned by getnews.php in order to re-use it later.
3. Display the stored news
   Simply display the news you have stored in your database/file. In return for this service, the only thing we ask is that you also display the link "News provided by AnimeNewsNetwork.com" in your page. After all, there has to be something in this for us too, right? ;-)

Basically, you can use the script
http://animenewsnetwork.com/newsfeed/getnews.php?u=[username]&p=[password]
in whatever way you want, knowing that if the news have changed or if you saved your Newsfeed settings since the last time the script was called, it will return the number of news items you specified with the format you specified. So if getnews.php returns a blank page, just re-save your settings (it doesn't matter if nothing changed) and the next time the script is called it will return the news.

You can also filter news items by topic; for example to display only "Manga" and "Games" news:
http://animenewsnetwork.com/newsfeed/getnews.php?u=[username]&p=[password]&filter=manga,games

The format of the news items can contain several tags to customize how you wish the news to appear:
{ARTICLEURL}: URL for the full article (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=...)
{TITLE}: Title of the article
{DATE}: Date when the article was posted, with format yyyy-mm-dd
{TIME}: Time when the article was posted, with format HH:MM:SS
{SHORTTEXT}: Short description that is displayed below each article title on ANN's main page
{TOPICS}: Comma-separated list of topics (as displayed on ANN's main page)

Additionally, there are some special tags to control the format depending on whether there is more to display than just the short description:
{IFMORE}...{ENDIF}: Text between the tags {IFMORE} and {ENDIF} will only be displayed if the news article contains MORE than the short description.
{IFNOMORE}...{ENDIF}: Text between the tags {IFNOMORE} and {ENDIF} will only be displayed if the news article contains ONLY the short description.


Example 0: