RSS Feeder

[jay.clark]

Sorry of this has been covered already, (I couldn't find it). My feeds are coming in with no images - is there something I need to be doing to enable images? Thanks

I am having a similar problem, have done searches, and checked the distribution for notes without any luck.

The Mod installed without any problems, and I found the admin area under:
Modifications Settings>RSS Feeder

I was able to install a couple of feeds and they seem to be working pretty well so far, however no images.

It appears that images are supposed to be a feature since 1.10, and there is a reference in one of the posts about turning off hotposts in images.

But I cannot discover where to make any settings for images, and at this point I am not 100% convinced this mod is supposed to import images.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance

jayr

[MATTEK]

Is there a demonstration of this mod that I could see please?

[Liam.]

MATTEK, there's no direct demonstration needed since all you'd see is random posted topics... However, look around the last couple of pages of the thread and there are some.

AFAIK, the feeds are being posted in BBCode, and most blog images are embedded in HTML; so it may not work... I'll look further into that and include a BBC or HTML option in the next version; if needed.

[jimmy6154]

is there anyway to wrap the body of the message in

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[html] [/html]



type bbc code and then not convert it?

[jay.clark]

Still wondering if this mod is supposed to import images from the RSS feed or text only

jayr

[Liam.]

Thanks for that Spuds

[jay.clark]

Really today its an RSS feed poster, moving it to the next level is an RSS Feed Scraper which is quite a bit more complicated!

Ok, Text only works ok for my application, text and pics would be better but am content to wait.

I use a tool for creating my RSS feeds, and it uses pure HTML for adding pictures, I assume in line with the standard, however I can see the headaches writing and testing code for all the different ways that the standard might permit for image inserts

Thanks for letting me know what the situation is

jayr

[Liam.]

Well, I know of some blogs that embed a hell of alot of weird things in their posts. For example; a regular blog I read has some things in their main CSS file that's loaded every time, but only used in one or two articles. How would it go about embedding it in those articles?

However, I'll have a look at getting basic HTML tags (what SMF defines...) to work, I'll have a look at that tomorrow.

[GazOutEast]

Liam - a few research pointers for you against the requests of earlier   posters ....
 
  Multiple schedules - this is available in   WordPress's WP-o-Matic feed posting plug-in - it also captures images   but obviously doesn't have the issue of converting the tags to bbcode,   however a basic substitution routine should do the trick on switching   < img > to [ img ] and so on.  This one also offers the choice of   leaving the image at the source and linking to it, or downloading it and   storing it in a cache (either in the database or in a folder with a   link to the cache folder in the database).  It's GPL and hasn't been   updated for about 18 months, therefore you should be able to "borrow"   ideas if not code from it.
 
  The SMF Feed Posting competition to   your / SDs mod also had multiple schedules built in when I last used it   in ..... errrr .... 2007/8(?) - I know I have the packages from back   then on HDD - if you can't get a copy of the older version from anywhere   for "research" give me a shout and I'll email one across to you.
 
  Now   the "this'll drive Liam nuts and make him want to dangle upside down   from lamp posts" comment - are you ready?  I'd need to do some forum   archive trawling to confirm this, but - I'm pretty sure this mod already   does pull in images ... if the feed is set up properly. 
 
  I'm   pretty darn sure that most of last year, when importing one particular   feed from the "official" PayPal blog onto one of my boards, that the mod   was pulling in the goofy corporate mug shots of the PayPal bloggers.    It didn't work with eBay news feeds because they wrap everything into   <td> tags and put months worth into one table with each post   having the same wrapper tags around them (and their feeds suck as they   truncate at 100 characters after title, which is usually in the middle   of the url to the goofy corporate mug shot, rather than in a piece of   real text).
 
  Another feed-posting script that does pull in images   (but again is using html to html) is the auto-newsletter builder within phpLinks  phpLIST   newsletter mailing script.  Again it's GNU/GPL so you might be able to   get some pointers from their code.  I suspect the easiest routing would   be to build the engine as html in / html out, but then pass the html out   through a tag replacer routine that switches < img > to [ img ]   tags   (as I said earlier).
 
  Feeds disabling themselves -
  - I've been   using this mod (and before it, the other one) for a few years "in   earnest" with a heavy import loading on it.  One of the most common   causes of feed self-disabling that I've seen (on both mods) is when the   feed has not had new posts added for some time.  I'm not sure if there's   a clock/calendar countdown for dormancy of the source, or if there's   one for X number of polling attempts, but it is certainly a common   factor amongst the feeds that always seem to self-disable (no new posts   for a long time).  It's almost as if the mod gets the hump with not   being given new content from a dormant source, and cuts it off.
 
  Another,   though less common, common cause is when the source changes the feed   source URL - especially prevalent on financial sector blogs for some   reason.  Also if you're using RSS imports to post product catalogues as   one post per product, the feed source have a habit of switching domain   structures around and knocking out the original source feed.  The only   solution is to go back to their site and re-acquire the feed URL.
 
  On   feed posting mods on other scripts, which are not as well behaved as   SMF and its two main feed poster mods, dormant feeds failing to   self-disable are floating high in the "probable cause" list of reasons   why server resources have been hammered from time to time by some of my   sites (the ones not hammering don't do RSS feed posting at all). 
   
  < soapbox >This is something I'd like to collect more data on   from other users - if their account gets suspended by their hosts for   resource abuse - what triggered it, can the hosts pinpoint the subscript   or subroutine, which element of the server was it (database,   DB-connection, page loading, data inbound or outbound) and similar info   from error logs. 
    Hosts nowadays are getting way too trigger happy on shared account   suspensions due to RSS errors as a means to sell VPS accounts, without   providing the info needed for full and accurate debugging of the site to   prevent re-occurence and avoid the need for VPS expense. If there's any   evidence tying a resource-abuse suspension to failed feeds, or   self-disabled feeds due to dormancy, then I'd like to hear about it.    Some source sites seem to treat feed URLs in much the same way as most   people treat supermarket plastic carrier bags - some reuse them, most   just throw them away and get another one.< /soapbox >
 
  Gaz

[distante]

There is some way to allow feeds to embed videos from youtube or vimeeo? or another type of embeds?

I can't find the way to do this, I even put HTML rights to the poster

[Liam.]

There is some way to allow feeds to embed videos from youtube or vimeeo? or another type of embeds?

I can't find the way to do this, I even put HTML rights to the poster

How are the videos being embedded, or attempting to be embedded? Also, have you tried a combination with AEVA?

[distante]

I saw that the problem is not the RSSfeeder but the feed it self.

RSS feeds from blogger don't have video or audio info

[jcastellese]

We're having a problem with our RSS Feed. We have about 35 feeds that we feed into our forums, but we're having a problem with one of them. I've checked the feed on three different RSS validators and it always checks out.

The log says "A Feed could not be found at http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEWS_RSS&omniture=0&MIME=XML" but if you follow the link, you'll see that the feed is infact there.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this error?

EDIT: I also want to include that we're using the latest version of the mod 1.1.4 and our forum is SMF 2.0 RC3. like i said, we haven't had any problems with any of our other feeds. but the feed in question does validate and has worked in the past, so I'm having a pretty hard time finding what's causing the problem.

[diamondred123]

whats the set time to add them?

is it like 2 days because i had to wait that long

[Liam.]

We're having a problem with our RSS Feed. We have about 35 feeds that we feed into our forums, but we're having a problem with one of them. I've checked the feed on three different RSS validators and it always checks out.

The log says "A Feed could not be found at http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEWS_RSS&omniture=0&MIME=XML" but if you follow the link, you'll see that the feed is infact there.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this error?

EDIT: I also want to include that we're using the latest version of the mod 1.1.4 and our forum is SMF 2.0 RC3. like i said, we haven't had any problems with any of our other feeds. but the feed in question does validate and has worked in the past, so I'm having a pretty hard time finding what's causing the problem.

How strange, I've checked out the feed and it does indeed work and validate, very weird. Not sure where to go with that, but I'll definitely have a peek around at their other feeds myself and check if they work, but I have no direct idea where to go with this...

[rd]

Could it be that monroenews blocked the RSS bot or something?

[jcastellese]

thanks for the responses. yeah it's been giving us a pretty hard time for sure!

I hadn't even though about our host blocking RSS bots. I'm putting in a support request to see if they've made any changes that might have caused this.

To follow up, we have it checking about every 5 minutes. This is pretty frequent, but we have about 35 feeds coming into the site, and people want to see their stuff instantly coming up..

Also, here are the links to our other feeds from monroenews.com..
http://monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEWS_RSS&omniture=0&MIME=XML
http://monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=SPORTS_RSS&omniture=0&MIME=XML
http://monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=OBITS_RSS&omniture=0&MIME=XML

If you guys do come up with any ideas still I'd love to hear them still in case it turns out to be something else.

If i find the problem any time soon, I'll be sure to post it up here too in case anyone else ever runs into this as well.

[Liam.]

I don't think it'd be the issue that Royalduke suggested; if other XML feeds from that site are working on your site, it wouldn't make sense for a single one to be broken. However, it's possible and you should ask the feed owners aswell as your host, to check if anything is wrong... Very odd though.

[KirkhamsEbooks]

If I add several comma deliminated keyword phrases, does the feed look for all of them to be in the article or just one of they keywords and the article is posted?

Rick

[Giulio92]

I was wondering if you could ensure that certain feeds were sent by mail to members of a particular user group.

Is this possible?
I wondered swe could not be set in the profile option to receive (via feed name) which feeds get and what not.

Thanks