Do More With RSS

Two years ago we posted about how there are RSS feeds for individual machines, which lists a particular machine geting added to places.

Those are cool, but were they enough? They weren’t.

So we enhanced them. And now they can do more.

• Support arrays of machines (e.g., multiple machine IDs)
• Support a location ID
• Support latitude and longitude in order to show nearby machines being added.

Here’s an example: http://pinballmap.com/location_machine_xrefs.rss?machine_id[]=4615&machine_id[]=4616&machine_id[]=4617&lat=34.05223&lon=-118.24368

That is showing the three versions of Pokemon being added around Los Angeles.

These are the params:

• machine_id[]=
• location_id[]=
• lat=
• lon=
• max_distance=

Distance defaults to 30 miles, but can be adjusted.

machine IDs can be found here: https://pinballmap.com/api/v1/machines.json?no_details=1

location IDs can reliably be found by looking up a location on the website and then seeing the id in the url or in the permalink.

Have fun!