Comment 2 for bug 1248737

I am RSS Reader dev. Currently we use Google Feed API for parsing feeds.
This service requires only url to feed, parses it itself and so on.
Seems that there is no way for adding feeds locally.

BR, Roman.

2013/11/7 Nicholas Skaggs <email address hidden>

> This is a key piece to getting the rss reader tests in good shape --
> running reliably on the test system
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-rssreader-app
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
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> Title:
> Allow to add feeds from the local file system
>
> Status in RSS Feed Reader application for Ubuntu devices:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Currently, autopilot tests add a feed from www.canonical.com. That's
> bad because it makes the test depend on external resources that we
> don't control, and it also make the tests slow because they have to
> access the internet.
>
> It would be great if we could add also a feed from the local file
> system, so in the Add feeds screen, instead of entering
> http://www.canonical.com/rss.xml we would enter file:///tmp/rss.xml
>
> This will simplify the tests a lot. There might be tools to resolve
> http:// and file:// addresses, so this might not be hard to do
> implement, but I'm not sure about that.
>
> And, there might be people keeping their rss feeds in the local system
> too. I suppose this is not common, but I'm sure this won't be just a
> testability feature, some people will find it useful.
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