This page last changed on Nov 17, 2005 by jens@atlassian.com.

Displays the contents of an RSS feed. RSS is an Internet standard for syndicating news, and is used by many news sites and weblogs.

Please note that updates are only retrieved after at least an hour has elapsed since the last update.

Usage:
{rss:url=my_rss_url}

Parameter Required Default Description
my_rss_url yes none the url to the RSS feed
max no none Maximum entries to be displayed
showTitlesOnly no false Show only the title of the enrty

Example:
{rss:url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog}

gives:

Atlassian Developer Blog (rss_2.0)
Confluence adoption in the trenches
Simon posts a terrific article about driving Confluence adoption in his consulting firm. There are some really good tips in here about the techniques he's used to introduce his colleagues to the wiki. Many suggestions are similar to ones you'll...
Confluence Portlets for Oracle Webcenter
I've been doing a bunch of portlet development recently. Most recently, I've focused on portlets that can work in an Oracle portal environment.
Atlassian User Conference Survey
Should we hold a worldwide Atlassian user conference in the fall? Would you be interested and/or able to attend such a conference? I posted a poll on the Atlassian News blog earlier today to gather data on whether we there...
Atlassian Dev Chat, Thursday March 15
Since I'm visiting our San Francisco office and am also the Bamboo development lead, we've decided to, somewhat belatedly, hold an Atlassian Dev Chat next Thursday, 15th of March. If you're curious about Bamboo or just want to chat with...
Remote Log Monitoring via RSS
While its great that applications such as Confluence keep track of errors by writing them to the logs, they are generally ignored as there is no convenient way to access them. I set out to solve this problem by writing...
JIRA Voters and Watchers plugin
Just a quick note to let you know that I upgraded the JIRA Voters and Watchers plugin so that it is now compatible with JIRA 3.7 (and hopefully 3.8 when it comes out). Voters and Watchers adds some custom fields...
Keep 'em clean, boys.
On Tuesday, I was invited to observe the inaugural JIRA process meeting, in which the JIRA development team discussed various ways they could improve the way they produce software.
OpenID-enabled Confluence
With the recent press covering big companies adopting OpenID, I decided to see what the fuss was about, and to take it a step further, modify Confluence to be an OpenID consumer. With some time to kill on a...
Confluence 2.4 - Baby Steps
We just knew that for us, eight months was far too much time between drinks. Following the advice of the Extreme Programmers, we decided to turn the knobs up to eleven and see what happened. If a short release cycle was a good idea, how about a really short release cycle? Say... six weeks of development?
Auto-linking interesting text in support cases
A lot of technical support work is basically pattern-matching, and memorizing. You see a stacktrace, remember vaguely having seen it before, and hunt around until you find the earlier case. Here is a typical example, with MySQL breaking with a...
Six Days in a Leaky Boat
"It's a fine line between pleasure and pain", so sang the Divinyls. I can't quite remember what the song was about, but they were probably singing about Ajax. A plethora of libraries in the last year has meant it's never...
US Daylight Savings changes in 2007
In 2007, the US has planned a change to it's daylight savings time schedule. This may cause problems with Java applications (such as JIRA and Confluence) that rely on dates and times. The effect of this will be that times...
Bamboo Saves JIRA a Headache
Last Friday a code check-in was made that made JIRA functional tests fail only in Standard and Professional editions. If it was not for Bamboo, we would not have picked that up until midnight on Friday (for a while we...
Bamboo 1.0 Released
The Bamboo team is proud to announce the launch of Bamboo 1.0, Atlassian's Continuous Integration and Build Telemetry Server. After much blood, sweat and beers tears, 1.0 is out the door! You can take it for a spin from our...
Integrating Crowd with Apache and Subversion
Internally we have started migrating most of our applications to use Crowd as a central location for authentication and authorization information along with single sign-on (SSO). One of the applications that had been escaping us was getting Subversion integrated --...

Is there a way to limit this to headlines and not the full description?

Posted by smholck at Feb 17, 2005 16:07

I'd like to limit the size of the RSS feed. I'd just like to show the latest entry from a blog and just show the first few lines...
Could something like

Could not retrieve http://host.com/rss.xml - Page Not Found
work? Is there a "lines or maxlines" parameter that could be used? I think this function would be useful because I don't want to repeat an entire blog entry on my wiki site.

Posted by at May 10, 2005 16:12

I was trying to add the following to a page in Confluence but an error occurred.

ScienceDaily Headlines (rss_2.0)
(Daily headlines about discoveries in the physical and life sciences, health and medicine, the environment, and technology, from the world's leading universities and research centers.)
Biologists Produce Global Map Of Plant Biodiversity
Biologists have produced a global map of estimated plant species richness. Covering several hundred thousand species, the scientists say their global map is the most extensive map of the distribution of biodiversity on Earth to date.
Smokers' Skin Is More Wrinkled, Even In Areas Shielded From Sunlight
A new study from the University of Michigan Health System adds another dimension to the link between cigarette smoking and skin damage. The study suggests that smoking may be associated with a higher degree of aging on areas of skin, such as that of the inside of the upper arm, that are not normally exposed to sunlight.
Gene Controlling Circadian Rhythms Implicated In Bipolar Disorder
Disrupt the gene that regulates the biological clocks in mice and they become manic, exhibiting behaviors similar to humans with bipolar disorder. Scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center show that the Clock gene, which controls the body's circadian rhythms, may be integrally involved in the development of bipolar disorder. Circadian rhythms include the daily ups-and-downs of waking, eating and other processes such as body temperature, hormone levels, blood pressure and heart activity.
Stem Cell Signaling Mystery Solved
A newly discovered small molecule called IQ-1 plays a key role in preventing embryonic stem cells from differentiating into one or more specific cell types, allowing them to instead continue growing and dividing indefinitely, according to research performed by a team of scientists who have recently joined the stem-cell research efforts at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Computer Imaging Assists With Facial Reconstructive Surgery
A new calibration technique that involves measuring the distance between the upper ear and chin in photographs could help facial plastic surgeons use computer imaging software to achieve aesthetic harmony in their patients, according to a recent report in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.
Some Caterpillers Just Don't Want To Grow Up
An international project explores why it's an evolutionary advantage that only 25 percent of the caterpillars of Maculinea rebeli, a Lycaenid butterfly whose caterpillars live as parasites inside colonies of Myrmica ants, feeding on regurgitations from the nurse ants, complete development within one year. The rest are inactive and mature after two years. Intense competition and years where the ant colony avoids reinfection may be part of the explanation.
Brain Scans Reveal Cause Of Smokers' Cravings
Within the mind of every smoker trying to quit rages a battle between the higher-order functions of the brain wanting to break the habit and the lower-order functions screaming for another cigarette, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. More often than not, that cigarette gets lit.
Small Molecule Could Act As Cancer Therapeutic
A small molecule derived from the spacer domain of the tumor-suppressor gene Rb2/p130 has demonstrated the ability to inhibit tumor growth in vivo and could be developed into an anti-cancer therapeutic, according to researchers at Temple University's Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine.
Advanced Imaging Can ID More Causes Of Stroke Before They Strike
Based on a new study, researchers urge more comprehensive imaging for patients presenting to hospitals with stroke symptoms. Using both MRI and echocardiography to image the heart greatly enhances the detection of the cause and selection of the best treatment of cardioembolic strokes, the "meanest" type of stroke.
Colon Cancer Survival Linked To Number Of Lymph Nodes Examined
An analysis of 17 studies from nine countries has found that the more lymph nodes that are removed and examined during surgical treatment of colon cancer, the better the outcome appears to be for patients. The study suggests that removal of the nodes takes away a reservoir for potentially lethal cancer, and that knowing how far a cancer has spread leads to tailored and more beneficial treatment, according to researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Scientists Develop Plans For Ultimate Microscope
Scientists have developed an innovative way to take images of atoms in living cells without using a lens. They now plan to develop the ultimate X-ray microscope, which could be used to take high-resolution 3-D images of any molecular structure.
High Performance Schools Are Wave Of The Future, Says Architect
High performance schools integrate the best in today's design strategies and building technologies.
Scientists Create Nanoparticle Alphabet
Scientists have designed and mass-produced billions of fluorescent microscale particles in the shapes of all twenty-six letters of the alphabet in an "alphabet soup" displaying "exquisite fidelity of the shapes."
Will The Plague Pathogen Become Resistant To Antibiotics?
A small piece of DNA that helps bacteria commonly found in US meat and poultry resist several antibiotics has also been found in the plague bacillus Yersinia pestis, gene sequence researchers report.
Robotic Brace Aids Stroke Recovery
At age 32, Maggie Fermental suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. After a year and a half of conventional therapy with minimal results, she tried a new kind of robotic therapy developed by MIT engineers. A study to appear in the April 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation shows that the device, which helped Fermental, also had positive results for five other severe stroke patients in a pilot clinical trial.
Successful Islet Cell Transplant Without Immunosuppressive Therapy In Mice With Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists may have reached a breakthrough in the search for a lasting cure for type 1 diabetes. Medical researchers have greatly boosted the number of immune T-cells able to shield transplanted pancreatic islet cells from attack by the immune system. Insulin-producing islet cells are deficient in type 1 diabetes.
Lack Of Fuel May Limit US Nuclear Power Expansion
Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says an MIT expert on the industry.
Medication Errors Common, Difficult To Detect Among Transplant Patients
Medication errors appear to be common, often hidden and associated with adverse events among patients receiving outpatient care after an organ transplant, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The health care system is involved with nearly one-third of these errors.
Malaria-Resistant Mosquitoes Thrive In Lab
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) determined that genetically-engineered malaria-resistant mosquitoes fared better than their natural counterparts when fed malaria-infected blood. The results of their study indicated that genetically-engineered (transgenic) mosquitoes lived longer and produced more eggs compared to wild-type mosquitoes.
Increased Breast Cancer Risk Associated With Greater Fat Intake
Eating a high-fat diet may lead to an increased risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to a study in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Volcanic Plumbing Dictates Development Of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents
After years of results that repeatedly dogged him, University of Oregon geologist Douglas R. Toomey decided to follow the trail of data surfacing from the Pacific Ocean. In doing so, he and his collaborators may have altered long-held assumptions involving plate tectonics on the ocean floor.
Antibiotics Appear To Be Overprescribed For Sinus Infections
Antibiotics are prescribed for approximately 82 percent of acute sinus infections and nearly 70 percent of chronic sinus infections, despite the fact that viruses are by far the most frequent cause of this condition, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery.
Recycling: Scientists Blend Paint Into Plastic
Engineers at Rutgers University have developed a process to recycle waste latex paint -- the largest component of household hazardous waste -- by blending it with common plastics. In laboratory samples, these paint-blended plastics were as good as, and in some cases, superior to the same plastics made without paint.
Why We Give In To Temptation
We've all had our moments of weakness when trying to control ourselves; eating that donut on your diet, losing your temper with your kids, becoming upset when you're doing your best not to. It isn't like we plan on these lapses in judgment. It's more like they just sort of happen. There is now scientific evidence that explains this phenomenon of everyday life.
Put On A Happy Face: Happy Digital Characters Sell More Than Sad Ones
Even in the digital world, people respond to the expression of a computerized face. New Ohio State University research suggests that the simulated emotions of digital characters on web sites might have a real impact on the potential customers that view and interact with them.
Is Bigger Better? Breast Surgery Linked To Boost In Self-esteem And Sexuality
Women who undergo breast enlargement often see a sizable boost in self-esteem and positive feelings about their sexuality, a University of Florida nurse researcher reports. Although breast augmentation should not be seen as a panacea for feelings of low self-worth or sexual attractiveness, it is important for health-care practitioners to understand the psychological benefits of these procedures.
Substantial Amount Of Mercury Entering The Ocean Through Groundwater
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have found a new and substantial pathway for mercury pollution flowing into coastal waters. Marine chemists have detected much more dissolved mercury entering the ocean through groundwater than from atmospheric and river sources.
Plant Compound In Diet Associated With Decreased Risk Of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Postmenopausal women whose diet contains high amounts of lignans, estrogen-like chemical compounds found in plants, may have a reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Improving Microbial Fuel Cells Using A Brush Full Of Microbes
Generating electricity from renewable sources will soon become as easy as putting a brush and a tube in a tub of wastewater.
Study Focuses On Wandering Minds
College students reported mind-wandering almost one-third of the time in their daily lives, according to a new study led by faculty and graduate students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
'Elemental Fingerprinting' Traces Origins Of Marine Creatures
Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only for understanding these organisms but for managing and conserving them as well. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have developed a novel approach for tracing the life roots of marine larvae, some of the most difficult organisms to track due to their microscopic sizes.
Mutation To Mismatch Repair Gene Associated With Colorectal Cancer
Patients with a variant of a DNA repair gene, known as MLH1, may have an increased risk of a subtype of colorectal cancer, according to a study in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Moral Judgment Fails Without Feelings
Individuals with damage to a part of the frontal lobe make ruthless decisions when confronted with moral dilemmas that cause others to waver.
Radiation Preferred Over Surgery For Patients With Some Stages Of Lung Cancer
After an initial chemotherapy treatment, radiation may be a better choice than surgery for patients with stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer, according to a randomized controlled trial published in the March 21 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The authors suggest that a combination of chemotherapy and radiation should be the preferred treatment option for these patients.
Researchers Find Best Way To Detect Airborne Pathogens
Current methods used to sniff out dangerous airborne pathogens may wrongly suggest that there is no threat to health when, in reality, there may be. But researchers have found a better method for collecting and analyzing these germs that could give a more accurate assessment of their actual threat. For example, the findings may make it easier to detect airborne pathogens in low concentrations.
Gifted Students Beat The Blues With Heavy Metal
Gifted students who feel the pressure of their ability could be using heavy metal music to get rid of negative emotions according to research at the University of Warwick.
Mechanics Meets Chemistry In New Way To Manipulate Matter
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found a novel way to manipulate matter and drive chemical reactions along a desired direction. The new technique utilizes mechanical force to alter the course of chemical reactions and yield products not obtainable through conventional conditions.
Gene Mutation Cuts Colon Polyps, May Suppress Cancer
Scientists have found a gene mutation that can dramatically reduce the number of colon polyps that develop, potentially cutting the risk of cancer. Researchers studying mice prone to develop polyps discovered that animals carrying the damaged gene had about 90 percent fewer polyps in the small intestine and colon. Because people with large numbers of polyps are at higher risk for colon cancer, the finding may provide new ways to diagnose, prevent and treat it.
Twenty Of World's 162 Grouper Species Threatened With Extinction
The first comprehensive assessment of the world's 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or conservation measures are introduced. "This shows that over-fishing could decimate another major food and economic resource for humans, similar to the loss of the cod stocks off New England and Canada that has put thousands of people out of work," said Roger McManus of Conservation International.
Glaucoma Diagnosis May Be Mistaken In Some Younger Chinese People
Many young and middle-aged people of Chinese ancestry told they are at risk of going blind from glaucoma may be getting incorrect information, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Biofuel: Turning Old Fat Into Jet Fuel
New biofuels technology developed by North Carolina State University engineers has the potential to turn virtually any fat source -- vegetable oils, oils from animal fat and even oils from algae -- into fuel to power jet airplanes.
Outcome Of Progression-Free Survival May Result In Biased Trial Results
Measurement of progression-free survival, a widely used endpoint in cancer clinical trials, has methodological flaws that can lead to biased estimates, according to a study in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Traditional Chinese Medical Beliefs Still Relevant In Beijing
Traditional Chinese medical beliefs continue to have an impact on oral health in Beijing, China, says Jacqueline Hom, a dental student at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (Boston, MA, USA), who reports her findings today during the 85th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research.
New Method For Healing Canker Sores
Scientists report that they have developed a method for the effective healing of, and relief of pain associated with, canker sores.
Prenatal Exposure To Glucocorticoids Has Long-term Deleterious Effects On Newborns
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom have found that, as for rodents and other nonprimates, prenatal exposure of nonhuman primate African vervet monkeys (Chloroceus aethiops) to glucocorticoids has long-lasting deleterious effects on cardiovascular, metabolic, and neuroendocrine function. These data suggest that both repeated glucocorticoid therapy and severe maternal stress late in gestation are likely to have long-term deleterious effects on developing human fetuses.
The Next Great Earthquake
The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami are now infamous for the damage they caused, but at the time many scientists believed this area was unlikely to create a quake of such magnitude. Scientists now urge the public and policy makers to consider all subduction-type tectonic boundaries to be "locked, loaded and dangerous."
Genetic Studies Endow Mice With New Color Vision
Although mice, like most mammals, typically view the world with a limited color palette--similar to what some people with red-green color blindness see--scientists have now transformed their vision by introducing a single human gene into a mouse chromosome. The human gene codes for a light sensor that mice do not normally possess, and its insertion allowed the mice to distinguish colors as never before.
Mitochondrial Genes Move To The Nucleus: But It's Not For The Sex
Why mitochondrial genes ditch their cushy haploid environs to take up residence in a large and chaotic nucleus has long stumped evolutionary biologists, but Indiana University Bloomington scientists report in this week's Science that they've uncovered an important clue in flowering plants.

Error message:

Error rendering macro: Could not download:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/newsfeed.xml

The above rss feed works well in RSS Feed Reader. Did I do anything wrong? And what rss version does Confluence support?

Posted by mclai at May 11, 2005 14:29

I was trying to add the following to a page in Confluence but an error occurred.

{rss:url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/newsfeed.xml\}

Error message:

Error rendering macro: Could not download:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/newsfeed.xml

The above rss feed works well in RSS Feed Reader. Did I do anything wrong? And what rss version does Confluence support?

Posted by mclai at May 11, 2005 14:30

I have a news feed: http://new.knovel.com/CAM/RSS/notes.jsp which does not work in confulence, it keeps saying that I have non utf-8 chars. I tried putting everything in CDATA and tried to re-encode the strings in Java, but to no avail. Any suggestions?

Posted by cbraunstein@knovel.com at May 16, 2005 21:44

I'm also getting an error when trying to incorporate RSS into a page:

rss: Unable to retrieve http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog: 
Could not download: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog - java.net.
UnknownHostException: feeds.feedburner.com

And I used a link from the Confluence documentation to be sure it would work. 

{rss:url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog}

This is a great feature if I can get it to work.  How can I fix the error?

Posted by musangi@hotmail.com at Dec 28, 2005 11:08

The wiki code you are using is correct, and the error you are getting (UnknownHostException) suggests a server misconfiguration cause. Java doesn't appear able to resolve the host "feeds.feedburner.com" in order to connect.

If you are the server administrator you can start by checking there arent any java security restrictions (these should show up in the application server's logs), also check any firewalling / chrooting / jailing / other restrictions which might be imposed.

If you are not the server administration I suggest you talk to the person responsible - they should be able to help resolve the access problem.

Posted by dhardiker@adaptavist.com at Dec 28, 2005 11:38

seeing the follwoing error trying to use the rss feed

rss: Unable to retrieve http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog: Could not download: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog - java.net.UnknownHostException: feeds.feedburner.com

> "If you are the server administrator you can start by checking there arent any java security restrictions (these should show up in the application server's logs), "

and from the server logs i can see :

2006-08-24 07:37:01,112 WARN [util.http.httpclient.HttpClientHttpRetrievalService] get Failed to download http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlassianDeveloperBlog java.net.UnknownHostException: feeds.feedburner.com

> "getting (UnknownHostException) suggests a server misconfiguration cause. Java doesn't appear able to resolve the host "feeds.feedburner.com" in order to connect."

How do i confugure this corectly ? Iam behind a gateway so is there a config change i can make to resolve this ?

Posted by mpoyser at Aug 24, 2006 02:21

Is there a way to specify a username and password parameter so you could bring up a secured rss feed?

Posted by gpullis at Aug 30, 2006 16:13

Be warned that the wiki markup for pages can be viewed by anyone who can view the rendered page. This could pose a security risk if usernames and passwords are placed on the page.

Posted by dhardiker@adaptavist.com at Aug 31, 2006 03:27

Well, Dan, that'd be a very good point you have there.

Though I think that the security risk is mitigated a bit because only folks with edit permissions should be able to see the wiki markup. Right? Or am I missing something?

Posted by gpullis at Aug 31, 2006 07:33

To be clear, anyone with view privs can see the wiki markup. Go to Info tab at the top of this page and click the View Source button.

If they can see the rendered content, they can see with wiki markup that rendered it.

Posted by dhardiker@adaptavist.com at Aug 31, 2006 07:40

There is s feature request 1 open for this problem which will partly solve the security risk of everyone being able to see the source code.

Cheers,
Jens

1 http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6647

Posted by jens@atlassian.com at Sep 06, 2006 17:50

Trawling through the docs then I note that os_username and os_password can be passed as augments to the URL.

http://localhost:8080/confluence/login.action?os_username=un1&os_password=pw1

But how can I achieve the same results using the RSS macro, to a feed like the following;

{rss:url=http://rss.abc.com/MyBlog/rss.xml}

Note the following variation does not work either.

{rss:url=http://os_username=un1:os_password=pw1@rss.abc.com/MyBlog/rss.xml}

NB. I am not concerned that the username and password are viewable in the markup.

Thanks

Posted by globexmrhankscorpio@gmail.com at Jan 09, 2007 02:04

Since os_username and os_password are Atlassian-specific parameters, you might do better with something like this:

{rss:url=http://un1:pw1@rss.abc.com/MyBlog/rss.xml}

However, I'm not certain that will work anyway...

Posted by david@randombits.org at Jan 09, 2007 02:17
Document generated by Confluence on Mar 22, 2007 20:54