Displaying RSS feed in MediaWiki pages

chouleo
I am trying to display my collections as an RSS feed within a MediaWiki page. I have installed the RSS extension for MediaWiki.

The following command will work:
<rss>https://api.zotero.org/users/Usr_Name/collections/Collection_Key/items?key=Key_Name</rss>;

However, when I tried adding many of the query parameters listed in
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/basics, I get an error saying:

Failure to load RSS from: <URL>, Error parsing XML

Some query parameters, such as order=title and format=atom, are parsed correctly. Others parameters, such as v=3, format=bib, are not and the error message is displayed.

Has anyone else tried to do similar things or know how to address this issue? Thanks.
  • adamsmith
    As the documentation says, format=bib returns xhtml, not XML, so you'd expect that error.

    v=3 by itself just sets the API to version three. As the documentation says, without other specifications it returns JSON, which, again, is not XML, so you'd expect an XML parsing error.

    For your purposes (i.e. generating RSS/Atom), all API requests should include format=atom and you can then specify whatever else you need.
  • chouleo
    ah, thanks, that makes sense.
  • dstillman
    As the documentation says, format=bib returns xhtml, not XML, so you'd expect that error.
    (Just to clarify, adamsmith meant "Atom" here instead of "XML". XHTML is XML, of course, but it's not a valid feed. You might be looking for format=atom&content=bib, which includes bib entries within Atom entries.)
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