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vbgamer45:
I meant check a couple posts back inside this topic some people here posted a possible fix.

OldShaterhan:
Thank you very much.
I don't know English very well, but I believe it will be works.

One more thing. Why it add only 1 post despite it's more?

PS Why isn't the parser version choose isn't in configuration?

graaywolf:
The mod is working fine except it don't post the latest feed it only posts the second to the last post from the sites... How would i configure it to post the latest post from the other sites?

chuck23322:

--- Quote from: graaywolf on June 09, 2012, 12:04:09 PM ---The mod is working fine except it don't post the latest feed it only posts the second to the last post from the sites... How would i configure it to post the latest post from the other sites?

--- End quote ---

{Make sure, first, that you are saying in the feed config, that you want more than 1 post to be pulled each time...  The system will not double-post -- it keeps a MD5 hash in the MySQL table of every post to make sure it doesn't double post -- so even if you say post 10 each time, if 9 of them have been posted before, it will post only the new 1, because there is no MD5 match to previous posts -- all my feeds say pull 15 posts -- I think that's the max}

You're not alone on that one.  I originally figured it was my complexity in scraping feeds, etc.   But it turns out I was wrong -- certain feeds, just as a straight RSS feed into the SMF Mod -- also dropped an item....   the symptom was that the missing item would get posted when the feed got it's "next" item -- but of course, that item was missing until the next one showed up, etc, etc....

I can't give you an exact solution...  and it certainly depends on your personal desire to get into the alternative "hack" (and it is a HUGE hack)...

But I've taken to Yahoo Pipes to do pre-processing of my RSS feeds before giving it to the SMF Mod.

For those feeds that are dropping a post,  the Yahoo Pipes tool lets me do a "reverse" of the feed - therefore what was the TOP of the feed is now the BOTTOM - and the drop no longer is an issue to me -- no, it's not a fix :)

Granted, there's a learning curve for yahoo pipes.   And the other issue is that the RSS SMF Mod doesn't like the & character in a URL link (Yahoo pipes RSS links always have a &) --so you also have to create a Tinyurl.com link to your Yahoo pipe...

so it ends up being...   RSS -> Yahoo Pipe -> TinyURL --- and the TinyURL is what goes in your feed configuration.

Now, of course, I'm hacking a fix to the symptom, instead of finding the original problem and fixing that -- but that's what my skill set is, and Pipes has my intrigue because of all the other stuff I can do with it.   I'm now "scraping" web pages of interest, and converting them to RSS feeds, that the SMF mod can pull in...   So otherwise, I wouldn't "just" be using Yahoo pipes to 'fix' this issue -- but in the case of my feeds, it was easy enough to toss in a pipe operative saying "reverse" -- and volia, the problem of the missing post went away for me.

mageguild:
I have enabled this MOD and enabled a feed but it does not seem to be importing all the data in the feed.   

Refer to the attached images.

The first image shows the feed that I have enabled.  It is setup to update every 5 minutes and to import 10 items each update. 
The second image shows that board that the feed is posting to.  From this image, you can see that it is importing 2 items every 6 hours. 

Can anyone suggest what could be causing this?

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