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NewsGator’s ping endpoint

February 14th, 2006 by gregr

For those who are wondering how to ping NewsGator’s system when a feed is updated…the ping endpoint is

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

It implements the standard XML-RPC ping protocols.

This has been up for ages, and is used by ping-o-matic, pingoat, feedburner, and others…but I don’t believe it’s actually documented on the site anywhere. So, rather than my having to dig around looking for it every time someone asks, this will hopefully get it google-able. :-)

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2 responses about “NewsGator’s ping endpoint”

  1. Brent Simmons said:

    Cool. I’ve already asked Gus to add this to the next version of MarsEdit.

  2. NewsGator feed retrieval intervals - Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Musings on just about everything. said:

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