# Automatic update RSS flash reader?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-update-rss-flash-reader/58959>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-update-rss-flash-reader/58959 "2004-07-27T12:14:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![keitai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@keitai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/keitai)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-update-rss-flash-reader/58959/1 "2004-07-27T12:14:25Z")

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Hi there,

Trying to make a simple rss-reader with flash. Got it kind of working, but now i am stuck.

I made a feed.php that flash reads when the .swf is played. Now i want flash to read the feed.php every say 5 min. To check if there is any new data. In the end i want to make a little .exe file a user can put on his desktop.

Any suggestions

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-update-rss-flash-reader/58959/2 "2004-07-27T12:41:28Z")

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am i on the right track

```auto

function loadXML(feedURL) {
myIdentifier = Math.round (Math.random () * 10000);
mc.load (feedURL + "?uniq=" + myIdentifier);
}
setInterval (loadXML, 5000, "http://www.whatever.com/feed/feed2.php");

```

yep, i think this is a good start. NOw i need this to be skipped the very first time?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-update-rss-flash-reader/58959/3 "2004-07-27T16:44:05Z")

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What you could do is the same thing that you do with a flash clock… you put your code on the first frame and then on the second frame put gotoAndPlay(1) but that will update it every second which could be bad wit ha rss feeder if someone is reading it at the time and it decides to update itself and screw up their reading