RSS Feed Poster

[vbgamer45]

Do not have any docs yet. There is no way to remove links from posts.

[seojoe]

i think i just need to find content that doesnt have loads of links to affiliate offers in them in an effort to avoid my issue.

[Akyhne]

Very nice mod, but by adding http://eu.gran-turismo.com/gb/rss/1.0/news.xml I get an error when submitting:

An Error Has Occurred!
XML error: Undeclared entity error at line 435


Also when adding feeds, I get the error:

http://www.xxx.com/index.php?action=feedsadmin;sa=addfeed2
Undefined offset: 33
File: /home/xxx/Sources/Subs-RSS2.php
Line: 142

And the same when I edit a RSS:

http://www.xxx.com/index.php?action=feedsadmin;sa=editfeed2
Undefined offset: 33
File: /home/xxx/Sources/Subs-RSS2.php
Line: 142

However, the mod still seems to work, only not with the http://eu.gran-turismo.com/gb/rss/1.0/news.xml that can't be added.

[vbgamer45]

That feed looks odd looks like a badly formatted feed I can't even view in firefox I just see blank
http://eu.gran-turismo.com/gb/rss/1.0/news.xml

[Akyhne]

Does work for me in Firefox 3.6.8

EDIT: Seems it only works now and then.

[Akyhne]

Well, for now I just used the US rss link. But what about the errors in my log?

[atdev]

Any suggestions for my problem?
I have installed the mod, but can't get it to post.
I have tried:
using "admin" as the poster
using another user as a poster
unchecking "html enabled"
changing the forum in which it is supposed to post
selecting "use fake cron jobs"
using "curl" as the download method instead of all
The feed is fine, and I can post in the forum where I told the mod to.

[vbgamer45]

Try a real cron job instead

[atdev]

How do I do that? Just uncheck the use fake cron jobs box?

[vbgamer45]

Google on how to setup a cron job for php then point to the cron url for the feed poster

[nymphe]

Dear VBgamer45,

Thank you for your efforts creating this plugin. Unfortunately no matter I try, I couldn't get it work. I am using SMF 2.0 RC2 with no other mods installed, except this one. I've installed the plugin with the builtin package installer of SMF admin interface.

I tried to read the posts of last 6 months, but I couldn't find an answer. Unfortunately I don't have access to CPanel, but I've checked with a test.php whether curl or fsockopen are enabled or not, and I think they are on. ( Test site results: http://bit.ly/cGIsFk )

So, I see there ise scheduled task in the admin area, I set it for 30 minutes. After that, I've added RSS links to "Feed Poster Configuration" and set them 30 minutes either. I've changed my settings, and everytime I change the setting, I hit the run the task at the admin area to gather RSS posts, but no luck.

As far I understand the fake cron job setting is not necessary for SMF2. So any kind of method should work.

Where am I making a mistake? My forum is in Turkish UTF8.

Thank you very much for your help.

[tRu3_sKiTz0]

Forgive my NUB question. Do I need to subscribe to a feed via a feed reader before I can use this mod effectively? I just downloaded it and installed it. I haven't set up any feeds yet. I just don't wanna screw something up.

[vbgamer45]

Just grab the feed url and have it entered into the mod.

[tRu3_sKiTz0]

Kool, thats what I did, how long does it usually take for the bot to start posting, and is there a way to speed that up?

[nymphe]

I still couldn't find a solution. Everything seems fine, but no posts are added...

[tRu3_sKiTz0]

I just turned on fake cron job and made a bunch of bots and mine are posting. Awesome mod! This saves me LOADS of time getting content on my forum.

[joeygras8]

My error is this:

8: Undefined offset: 27
File: /home2/cpunatio/public_html/forum/Sources/Subs-RSS.php
Line: 143

any suggestions?

[nymphe]

what is your smf version? is it smf 2.0 or 1.1

I just turned on fake cron job and made a bunch of bots and mine are posting. Awesome mod! This saves me LOADS of time getting content on my forum.

[tRu3_sKiTz0]

2.0rc3 with my own variation of the curve theme. Here check it out if you like:

Code Select Expand

www.usgrantdiscussions.com

I will be changing the color scheme integrating it with our other website. This was just recently "Launched" as is and once I am comfortable with the general layout, I will begin the merger.

Anyway, you see that I have four boards that are RSSbots only. Read only also, I still have to go in and clean up the posts but these were all posted last night and this morning with just 5 simple bots posting topics. This mod is exactly what I needed.

[MoreBloodWine]

SMF: 1.1.11
Mod Version: 2.2.1

HTML Tag Workaround: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=411

I keep seeing people talking about the HTML tags not working, well, why no one suggested this is beyond me. Anyway, my bots in a VIP group and with the suggested mod I assigned that group permission to use the BBC HTML tag so as far as HTML issues go this should fix any problems people are having with display issues. I'm still waiting on my first feed post to come through so I have to admit I don't even know if this will solve the HTML issues.

Anyway this is what my setup looks like...





If my cron is set up right it should run every 30 minutes of every day of every hr etc.
30 * * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/<REMOVED>/public_html/cronrss.php

From what I read the cron should be set up to run the same interval as the feed you have in admin.

With that said my one and only feed as of now should be set up right, with that said though does that mean any other feeds I add need to run every half hr like the current feed and cron does / is supposed to ?

Anyway, it's been about an hr sicne I set everything up and I have yet to see a feed post, best I can tell I have everything set up right so if it takes time for the first one to come in then I guess all I can do at this point is just wait some more.

Edit: Ok, so it's alittle past 3:30am right now and I got this cron email timed 3:30 in my inbox so it seems that something is right but not everything.

Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=bd7ccb54809bc82d0c53bbee0fb569d8; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: private
Content-type: text/html

Feed Poster Configuration

So everything appears to be working ok but I haven't seen a post yet in the specified board... it's late now and I've been missing some sleep so I'm crashing for the night. Hopefully when I wake up later I will have a feed post or more but if I don't I will be sure to re-visit this thread.

Edit 2: Thought I'd check something before crashing... http://www.eojmarket.com/php_info.php

Going by this it seems that I shouldnt be having any issues...

allow_url_fopen On On

and...

cURL support  enabled 
cURL Information  libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5 

Edit 3: Ok, so I've gone through something like 20 cron jobs (every half hr) sicne I set this up last night all sending me emails like below and I have yet to see a single feed post. AFAIK I have done everything right including setting up the cron job so whatever's wrong is beyond me...

Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=7be97530c8841e7ed5f3cdeea268f760; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: private
Content-type: text/html

Feed Poster Configuration