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Started by Web Help Forums, April 23, 2017, 06:13:12 PM

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Web Help Forums

I can't find a way to retrieve a RSS feed of all/newl posts done by a specific profile (e.g. me)

To RSS feed all new posts give too much spam due to bots posting at the website, but if I could syndicate posts by my own forum admin, then... thee could be a big potential in it

Amd I missing something?

Arantor

There isn't an option for that in SMF, only filtering to new topics, perhaps inside a given board - e.g. a news board.

Web Help Forums

Hi,

Okay - I will see if I can find a workaround. Maybe I can scrape the recent posts page of a profile and convert to a RSS feed... Then upload automatically. I will try see.


Web Help Forums

Okay:

This is the page I want converted to RSS and posted to e.g. Twitter
https://webhelpforums.net/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1


Solution #1 for RSS:

fivefilters.org
https://webhelpforums.net/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=1
topic
https://webhelpforums.net/
=
http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=webhelpforums.net%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Dprofile%3Barea%3Dshowposts%3Bu%3D1&in_id_or_class=topic&url_contains=https%3A%2F%2Fwebhelpforums.net%2F

Solution #1 problem:
Does no work with https://dlvrit.com/ which is recommended replacement for twitterfeed.com


Solution #2 for RSS:
http://fetchrss.com


Solution #2 problem:
Unfornately, all links seem to include PHPSESSID

I think solution may be to edit forum (or find mod?) where this can be inserted at top before any session calls:

<?php
ini_set
("session.use_cookies"1);
ini_set("session.use_only_cookies"1);
ini_set("session.use_trans_sid"0);
?>




If anyone has ideas, suggestions, comments or suggestions for succeeding with the above, let me/us know! :)

Web Help Forums

I ended up using my own scraper software (private build sofar) to generate a simple RSS feed and then run it through https://dlvrit.com/ - It appears to work. Hopefully SMF will some day support it built-in.

Kindred

Quote from: Web Help Forums on April 24, 2017, 07:23:21 PM
Hopefully SMF will some day support it built-in.

unlikely...  generally not considered important or overly useful
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Украинi

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Web Help Forums

I understand - the problem using RSS feed syndication based on boards is for me that my forum is now and then hit by e.g. porn spam or what have you. Like hundreds of posts by maybe 10+ accounts. I can pretty quickly remove it from the forum, but if syndicated to social sites = big problem. By only syndicating posts from my own profile - I can ensure it is fairly relevant and non-span.

But I agree, probably not super wide-spread usage, so I understand :)

Arantor

You could always do it based on first post in topics rather than all posts and disallow people to start new topics in that board.

Kindred

Or improve your anti-spam measures....
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Украинi

Please do not PM, IM or Email me with support questions.  You will get better and faster responses in the support boards.  Thank you.

"Loki is not evil, although he is certainly not a force for good. Loki is... complicated."

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