News

[News:AjaxFeed]

Google AJAX Feed API allows to embed a Dynamic Feed Control on your web page and let your users see customized views of the feeds. Read more about this gadget at //www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/dynamicfeed.html

  • Parameters:

    • [required] String Feeds List of feed URLs to aggregate items from separate with semicolon. Include bookmark at end of the feed to set a title, for example: site.com/rss.xml#My Title
    • [optional] Enum DisplayMode Number and position of articles to display. Horizontal - only one article is show at a time and it changes every few seconds. Vertical - show 4 articles from one source, then switch to 4 articles from next source and so on. VerticalStacked - show 4 articles from each source upfront.
    • Default Value: VerticalStacked
    • Possible Values: Horizontal,Vertical,VerticalStacked

  • Syntax:

    • [News:AjaxFeed(Feeds=”(Literal String)”,DisplayMode=[Horizontal,Vertical,VerticalStacked])]
    • To test the token, click Test Token button below and replace parameters (if any) with actual values.

  • Examples:

    • [News:AjaxFeed(DisplayMode=Horizontal,Feeds=”//rss.people.com/web/people/rss/topheadlines/index.xml#People.com Celebrity News;//www.eonline.com/syndication/feeds/rssfeeds/topstories.xml#E! Online Entertainment News”)]

    • Rotates one headline from the two RSS sources.[News:AjaxFeed(Feeds=”//rss.people.com/web/people/rss/topheadlines/index.xml#People.com Celebrity News;//www.eonline.com/syndication/feeds/rssfeeds/topstories.xml#E! Online Entertainment News”)]

    • Embeds celebrity news by merging two sources (RSS Feeds) and stack 4 from each source.

[News:NewsShow]

NewsShow is a Google service that embeds news article summaries matching some criteria. Read more about this gadget at //code.google.com/apis/newssearch/newsshow/index.html

  • Parameters:

    • [required] String Keywords Let NewsShow know what keywords are relevant.
    • Default Value:
    • Possible Values:
    • [optional] String Topics Let NewsShow know what topics this instance should contain. This is a comma delimited list of codes as follows:
      • h - specifies the top headlines topic
      • w - specifies the world topic
      • b - specifies the business topic
      • n - specifies the nation topic
      • t - specifies the science and technology topic
      • el - specifies the elections topic
      • p - specifies the politics topic
      • e - specifies the entertainment topic
      • s - specifies the sports topic
      • m - specifies the health topic;
    • Default Value: h,w,b,n,t,el,p,e,s,m
  • Syntax:

    • [News:NewsShow(Keywords=”(Literal String)”,Topics=”(Literal String)”)]

      To test the token, click Test Token button below and replace parameters (if any) with actual values.

  • Examples:
    • [News:NewsShow(Keywords=”treaties”)]
    • Returns news that refer to treaties in default topics.
    • [News:NewsShow(Keywords=”treaties”,Topic=”h”)]
    • Returns Top Stories that relate to treaties.