RSS Feed Poster

[lamlam]

Who have a feed to check on 5 minutes... 1 minutes? 30? 60?
Came one..... think about that.......
or are you feeding a twitter about........ "linux" (just to say something)




Anyway..... this mod did not work for me... just keeped publishing 2nd item.... no news at all




will try later

Same here! It only published the second item for some reason. I thought it might have been my RSS feed, but it validated perfectly fine.
Any more information on this?

[aka Fusion]

It took a bit of figuring out but i got this mod to work and its great

My site has curl on but i had to activate fopen by this i had to create a file using notepad.
Place allow_url_fopen = On inside the file. rename file to php.ini place file in root of folder that you wish to use that function and chmod to 644.

Struggled mostly with the cron job command but this is what worked for me

Note  - When you visit the url

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http://YOU DOMAIN/forum/cronrss.php
and get this message Feed Poster Configuration - then you have cracked it

You need the url not the webspace location (which makes sense as you want the cron job to call the url rather than you clicking the link) so this is what worked for me

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/usr/bin/wget http://YOURDOMAIN/forum/cronrss.php

if you dont want an email with a report every time the job runs then add this after the command

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>/dev/null 2>&1

one of these variations worked as well (cant remember which) but  but it only seemed to work when i visited the feed url in a browser

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php -q /public_html/domain.net/forum/cronrss.php
/usr/local/bin/php /public_html/domain.net/forum/cronrss.php

Topics being added twice a day on two forums  - Thanks for a great mod

[wynnyelle]

I had this installed a while back but I have no idea if it is doing anything or not. I never do anything with it myself, but my host back then or someone else may have. How do I find this out?

[vbgamer45]

Check under RSS Feed Configuration and see if you have any feeds enabled.

[papabill]

I installed this mod on my SMF 2.0.2 forum over an hour ago, and here is my configuration data:

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Feed Title: Google RSS Feed
Feed Url: http://news.google.com/news?cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&output=rss 
Forum:  [RSS Links] - Google 
Message Icon: Standard   
Poster Name: papabill
Topic Prefix: [Feed]
Update every x minutes: 5
Number of items to import each update: 50

Feed Enabled

Feed download method: All

However, even after over an hour, I still have no feeds coming into my forum.

Help??

Thanks

[vbgamer45]

Do you have the scheduled task enabled? Under Tasks

[papabill]

Yessir, I do. In fact, I clicked the "Run Now" box and tried again. Still nothing.

Tried it again, and it seemed to work. Thanks

1:08pm edit
However, in some of the posts, I get this:

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<p><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/oscars-snubs-and-surprises-1327362196-slideshow/snubs-and-surprises-oscar-gallery-photo-1327353287.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uEVpJ2agzFYD7g4vmIXVwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ca/News/AccessHollywood/158873.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Melissa McCarthy in 'Bridesmaids,' 2011 -- Universal Pictures" align="left" title="Melissa McCarthy in 'Bridesmaids,' 2011 -- Universal Pictures" border="0" /></a>This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for this year's Oscars. When it comes to snubs and surprises, there was plenty to go around. Still, the favorites hung in: Clooney for best actor, Streep for best actress, and "The Artist," "The Descendants" and "Hugo" was "Huge-o" for best picture with eleven nominations.</p><br clear="all"/>

Sorry, no <CR> in the thing

Tried to uncheck HTML enabled, but I get this error:

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An Error Has Occurred! Unable to download the feed.

[vbgamer45]

Try each different method instead of ALL and see if it would work.

[wynnyelle]

Check under RSS Feed Configuration and see if you have any feeds enabled.

Thanks--where would  I find this, though? I went looking for something in admin panel, couldn't find anything.

[papabill]

Finally got it to work. I set the Feed download method to fsock, and it seems to work properly now. Thanks

[papabill]

Check under RSS Feed Configuration and see if you have any feeds enabled.

Thanks--where would  I find this, though? I went looking for something in admin panel, couldn't find anything.

Under Admin->Configuration->Feed Poster Configuration

[wynnyelle]

Thanks....It just says this:

Feed Title    Feed Url    Poster Name    Feed Status    Options
Add Feed

Cron Job Url:  http://warriorcatsrpg.com/cronrss.php

Settings
Use fake Cron jobs. Checks if feeds need to be updated on each page load.

So....I am taking it to mean we have never used this at all? I've seen RSS feeds of our site on google though.

[papabill]

Thanks....It just says this:

Feed Title    Feed Url    Poster Name    Feed Status    Options
Add Feed

Cron Job Url:  http://warriorcatsrpg.com/cronrss.php

Settings
Use fake Cron jobs. Checks if feeds need to be updated on each page load.

So....I am taking it to mean we have never used this at all? I've seen RSS feeds of our site on google though.

Dunno what to tell you about that. I know before I could set up ANY RSS feeds, I hadda click the "Add Feed" link.

[wynnyelle]

Yeah there is no feed listed under that menu there, only the cron job thing.

[wynnyelle]

So apparently I am not using this on my site. I tried to uninstall it and it will not allow me to uninstall the mod.

I get errors involving these files:

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg308/wynnyelle/failed-uninstall-rss-feed-poster.jpg

Really not sure how to proceed from here, I do want to uninstall and remove, I have too much code clutter already

[Arantor]

Well, the first error is likely because the package manager is not capable of fixing certain problems itself.

Perform the uninstall, ignoring the errors. Then find your index.php file (top level one) and remove this line:

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'feedsadmin' => array('FeedPoster2.php', 'FeedsMain'),

Then in Sources/Admin.php, remove:

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'feedsadmin' => array(
'label' => $txt['smfrssposter_admin'],
'file' => 'FeedPoster2.php',
'function' => 'FeedsMain',
'custom_url' => $scripturl . '?action=admin;area=feedsadmin;sesc=' . $sc,
'icon' => 'server.gif',
'subsections' => array(),
),

If you want to attach those two files, I'll do the edits for you - it should be safe to proceed to uninstall without those two edits being removed, too, because while they're in critical files, the edits should not materially affect anything.

[papabill]

Do you have the scheduled task enabled? Under Tasks

I'm noticing that the thing is not updating as it is supposed to. The only posts in the topics are the ones I manually did yesterday evening, even though they are in the scheduled tasks, and they are configured to update every hour.

[luuuciano]

Wich feed url are you using?

[papabill]

Wich feed url are you using?

Here are the urls I'm using:

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http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32752/f/517092/index.rss
http://www.cbn.com/news_rss.xml
http://pewforum.org/rssfeeds/news/rss.xml
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorComputer/rss
http://news.google.com/news?cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&output=rss
http://rss.weather.com/rss/national/rss_nwf_rss.xml?cm_ven=NWF&cm_cat=rss&par=NWF_rss
http://www.religionofjesuschrist.com/bible_topics.xml
http://www.worthynews.com/news-editor/scripts/rss-news.php?nr=8
http://www.abpnews.com/index2.php?option=ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/FocusOnTheFamilyDailyBroadcast
http://www.christianpost.com/services/rss/feed/
They all work when done manually.

[wynnyelle]

Well, the first error is likely because the package manager is not capable of fixing certain problems itself.

Perform the uninstall, ignoring the errors. Then find your index.php file (top level one) and remove this line:

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'feedsadmin' => array('FeedPoster2.php', 'FeedsMain'),

Then in Sources/Admin.php, remove:

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'feedsadmin' => array(
'label' => $txt['smfrssposter_admin'],
'file' => 'FeedPoster2.php',
'function' => 'FeedsMain',
'custom_url' => $scripturl . '?action=admin;area=feedsadmin;sesc=' . $sc,
'icon' => 'server.gif',
'subsections' => array(),
),

If you want to attach those two files, I'll do the edits for you - it should be safe to proceed to uninstall without those two edits being removed, too, because while they're in critical files, the edits should not materially affect anything.

Thanks--I have uninstalled it.

...I was going to ask you to do the edits, but I believe i may have done them successfully on my own! I'm browsing around right now just to make sure...