To create a source RSS Feed using the JSON template:
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2. Select Source Editor from the menu
3. Click the ‘New Source’ button at the top right of the screen
4. Under the Source Template dropdown drop-down on the left side: select ‘Basic RSS Source Template’ and click ‘Select’
5. Under the New Source template on the right side:
Enter a Title (i.e. NY Times Front Page) and Description (i.e. NY Times RSS)
Select a Community for your source (i.e. General News)
- Select ‘Save Source’
6. When saved, the source template reloads with:
Unique ‘Shared ID’ for your source
- Title, Description, and Community ID entered in Step 5 are added to the corresponding fields in the JSON
7. Enter unique tags by replacing ‘tag 1’ in the quotations, then add any additional tags in quotations followed by a comma
Note: No comma after the last tag, see below
i.e. "tags": ["NY Times", “Front Page”, “RSS”],
8. Replace the template URL in the "url": field with the .rss or .xml URL for the desired RSS feed, followed by a comma after the quotation
9. Two fields must be added to the end of the JSON for text and metadata extractors depending on the content and desired results:
For extraction of entities and associations and if sentiment scoring is NOT desired, copy and paste the following :
"useExtractor":"OpenCalais",
"useTextExtractor": "boilerpipe"
For keyword extraction AND sentiment scoring, or for foreign language sources, copy and paste the following:
"useExtractor":"AlchemyAPI-metadata",
"userTextExtractor":"AlchemyAPI"
10. Next to Test Parameters, change the ‘Number of Documents:’ from ‘10’ to ‘2’, and select ‘Test Source’
11. Depending on your settings, you may need to accept pop-ups in order to receive the success or error message
