Comments on: Sphinn Google Gadget

By: SEOish: Pat

SEOish: Pat — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:39:15 +0000

wow, thanks zachary, i will be in touch

whats up Glen? nice to see yo here

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:20:19 +0000

Great gadget, I’m sure the guys over at sphinn will be thankful for this one

By: Zachary Fox

Zachary Fox — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:15:55 +0000

I’ve got a version that I started based on one of Google’s examples. It uses a regular expression to pull out the number of sphinns and to split the description from the feed. I’m not sure how the code will look, but here are the lines that do that. It’s rough, but it should give you an idea of how to do it.

Assuming that the full text of the description is in a variable named description:

var re = /(\d{1,2}) Vote\(s\)/;
var sphinns = re.exec(description)[1];
var description = description.split(re)[0];

sphinns will hold the number of votes, description will hold the html up to the number of votes. I may not check back here, so email me if you have any questions or if you would like my whole gadget. I’ll email it to you if you’re interested. It’s not as complete as yours, but it does display hot and upcoming stories.

By: pat

pat — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:41:26 +0000

Thanks guys, if anyone can take a look at the sphinn feeds and the way they are parsed in this gadget I would really appreciate suggestions on how to display the amount of sphinns each story has.

By: Seo Design Solutions

Seo Design Solutions — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:10:11 +0000

This one is guaranteed to go red hot!!! Great gadget for the premier SEO News Source.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:08:01 +0000

Nice gadget Patrick! Great idea.