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How often does notify.me check a feed?
So Im guessing its around every 20 mins or so? maybe 30?
Im using notify.me to notify me of an update to a specialized twitter search feed that shouldn't update more than once or twice every 3-4 days. The update is sent to my personal mailing list and then sent out to my users.
Its for announcing the start of a live stream, thats only an hour long. The mailing list processes every 5 mins. So obviously time is of the essence.
Since the notifications are of such low volume, is there any way I can pay for faster response time?
Im using notify.me to notify me of an update to a specialized twitter search feed that shouldn't update more than once or twice every 3-4 days. The update is sent to my personal mailing list and then sent out to my users.
Its for announcing the start of a live stream, thats only an hour long. The mailing list processes every 5 mins. So obviously time is of the essence.
Since the notifications are of such low volume, is there any way I can pay for faster response time?
I’m content.
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Inappropriate?Well I just read a pre-public release interview with Jason Wieland where he mentions the service pushes out the notification every 1-2 mins.
I assume this time has increased a bit with server load and the amount of users you now have. Anything under the 15min mark is acceptable to me, but I would rather hear the official response from the company.
Also I read the other question here about paying for service. Disregard my previous question on that.
I’m clarifying
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Inappropriate?Hello Hartley,
Our goal is to make source processing as fast as possible. We have three ways of receiving information and each way has a different amount of latency.
SMTP: You can send and email to you notify.me account hartley@notify.me and you should get a notification in about 1-2 minites
FEED: We parse rss/atom feeds about ever 10-15 minutes. It was every 1-2 minutes 6 months ago now we are parsing 10's of thousands of feeds and it takes us a while to go through them. At then end of July we hope to release a new enhancements to the feed engine that will allow us to loop through 100k of feeds about every 5 minutes.
API: Our recently released API can process a notification in seconds. You can read about it here: http://wiki.notify.me/User:Arne/WIP/A...
There is a c# library implementation and a perl one is do to be release in 2 weeks.
So if you are looking for the process with the least amount of latency I would suggest to look at our API.
Let me know if you have anymore questions.6 Comments
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Jason. Any plans to offer a "premium" service? I'd pay an annual fee in order to get more frequent monitoring of my feeds. -
Hi Karl, We have (and still are) considered adding a premium option. We have a core group of users that would pay for increased service and response times. However at this point that group size does not justify the costs associated to running a paid service. Thank you for your comments though.
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What about if I need to check a feed not so often? Suppose, for example, that for my needs parsing every 30 minutes is enough, and I do not want parsing every minute or two. Will be possible to choose the parsing interval?
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So you would like to digest messages in 30 minute intervals? We don't have that feature yet.
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Thanks, I'm not interested in digest. Indeed, I use notify.me to have distinct notifications. I just ask for in many cases I do not need immediate notifications and maybe it could be interesting a less-effort service both for you and the feed source servers. But perhaps mine is an isolated case.
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Yes we can't control how often we check a feed. We do it as often as possible. However, it highly optimized and takes very little resources.
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Inappropriate?Thanks a lot for the reply, and on a Sunday evening as well.
Reading through the API now, good docs.
I’m satisfied.
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Inappropriate?Our website has live Traffic updates that we want to feed through notify.me to ping.fm but the system seems to only check the rss list every 20 to 30 minutes (sept 09) and we really need them to be checked every 2 to 3 minutes to keep our customers happy! Please please suggest a fix or some way to get a faster check!3 Comments Add a comment
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John, I understand your issue. Our latest enhancement which will be rolling out fairly soon will lower the interval to around 5-10 minutes, still not good enough for your requirements. We have planning to support for pubsubhubbub [http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/] and after that rsscloud [http://rsscloud.org/]
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Jason thanks for the prompt reply. I looked at pubsubhubbub but there will be no way to implement support for it and rsscloud looks like a long way off. I really don't mind paying for a speedy service but failing that I am going to have to get some hard coding with php and cron jobs which I really didn't want to do. Whats the stab in the dark time frame for the faster 5 to 10 minute updates?
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I'm guessing it will be released in the next 1-2 months. PuSH and rsscloud are here and ready today http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/...
If you want near realtime syndication it is the only way to go IMHO
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