http://blog.webdh.com/index.cfm This is Troy's blog for WebDH.com LLC. en-us Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:08:09 -0700 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:19:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss webdh.com@gmail.com webdh.com@gmail.com http://blog.webdh.com/index.cfm/2006/9/6/Consuming-Flickr-RSS-feed-using-ColdFusion-MX The following code will make a http request for a Flickr RSS feed, and output the results. You may want to cfdump the XMLContent variable to see what other values you can use from the feed. Enjoy... <code> <cfhttp url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=77561358@N00&format=rss_200" method="GET"></cfhttp> <cfscript> XMLContent = trim(cfhttp.filecontent); XMLContent = XMLParse(XMLContent); </cfscript> <cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(XMLContent.rss.channel.item)#" index="idx"> <cfoutput> Link to Flickr: <a href="#XMLContent.rss.channel.item[idx].link.xmlText#">#XMLContent.rss.channel.item[idx].title.xmlText#</a><BR> Image: <img src='#XMLContent.rss.channel.item[idx]["media:thumbnail"].xmlattributes.url#'><BR> Author: #XMLContent.rss.channel.item[idx].author.xmlText#<BR> Date: #XMLContent.rss.channel.item[idx].pubDate.xmlText# </cfoutput> <hr> </cfloop> </code> Here is a <a href="http://blog.webdh.com/demos/20060906.cfm" target="_blank">demo</a> of this in action. ColdFusion RSS Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:19:00 -0700 http://blog.webdh.com/index.cfm/2006/9/6/Consuming-Flickr-RSS-feed-using-ColdFusion-MX