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Custom Titles with Feedgrab

2009-08-18T17:21:56+00:00

Hi Andrew

Thanks for an fantastic plugin. I’ve just started work on a new project where I’m wanting to import a few hundred properties into EE from an RSS feed. Ideally these properties are going to have search engine friendly urls, and so I was wondering if there was any way of being able to create title (and therefore url_titles) from more than one field of the RSS?

I noticed that someone already asked this on the EE forums but I couldn’t see a reply.

Cheers for now

Jim

/go page stops at “Fetching: url”

2010-07-27T04:09:45+00:00

I recently installed this & ran through the tutorial on this site, but for some reason when I try to load the rss, it only reads


"Fetching: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/31353077.rss"

and then nothing else appears.

I’m running ee 1.6.8. I downloaded the plugin yesterday, it’s installed properly and visible in my plugins directory.

My /go template has the following:

{exp:feedgrab url="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15408028.rss" 
                          weblog="8" 
                          title="title"
                          date="pubDate"
                          use="link|description" 
                          fields="feed_url|feed_body" } 

The index template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblogfeed" orderby="date" limit="10" show_future_entries="yes"}
<div id="blogfeed">
   <div class="sheader">
<h4><a href="{feed_url}">{title}</a></h4>
    </div>
<div id="sentry">

<p>{feed_body}</p>
</div> <!-- End of sentry -->
</div>   <!-- End of blogfeed -->
{/exp:weblog:entries} 

I’m planning on using it for wordpress & flickr as well, but I haven’t tried flickr yet since this isn’t working out.

date not being processed with feedgrab

2010-07-25T18:42:28+00:00

I’ve got feedgrab working great except that the date isn’t being entered correctly.

my code is below and the atom feed is here:

I think the problem is that the feed has the time output twice using the same tag (published) and the first time it’s got this extra “T” in it. Is there a way to work around this?

{exp:feedgrab url="http://www.dailymile.com/people/createsean/entries.atom" 
                          weblog="5" 
                          title="id"
                          date="published"
                          use="dm:distance|dm:duration|dm:felt|link" 
                          fields="distance|duration|felt|dailymilelink" } 

Assing entries to categories Dont Works!!

2010-07-21T10:36:14+00:00

hi,

the problem:
dont assing the entries to category 25, nathing happend, what happend?

I dont see nathing wrong in my code:

{exp:feedgrab url="http://www.mysite.com/rss" weblog="2" category="25" title="title" unique="title" use="link" fields="link"} 

the entries appear great in the weblog 2 BUT dont in the category 25…

I run this local with a new ee fresh install… and yes work, the entries allow to the category 2, works beacuse are a minus number category??? I mean in the online version I have around 40 categories… in the local just 3…

please help Im frustrated! I just need that for end my project… thanks

FeedGrab YouTube Videos?

2010-07-17T01:16:39+00:00

Im trying to get youtube videos, and almost work!

by example most popular videos:

{exp:feedgrab url="<a href="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/standardfeeds/most_popular?client=ytapi-youtube-browse&alt=rss&time=today">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/standardfeeds/most_popular?client=ytapi-youtube-browse&amp;alt=rss&amp;time=today</a>" weblog="2" category="4" refresh="60" title="title" date="pubDate" use="link|description" fields="link|description"} 

url: (Feed WORKS GREAT)
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/standardfeeds/most_popular?client=ytapi-youtube-browse&alt=rss&time=today

link: (WORKS GREAT BUT SHOW A LITTLE PIECE OF CODE THAT I DONT WANT, SEE:)
get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2P0-tgL4A&feature=youtube_gdata
I want just this (you know just the short normal link, why i need this? for works videothumb plugin… (http://expressionengine.com/archived_forums/viewthread/148364/) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2P0-tgL4A

description: (DONT! WORK)
get a lot code css things etc… how can get the description of the video?

for understand me well, please see this screenshot:
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5914/screenshot20100716at134.png

last question, any pro tutorial or guide for do this? maybe Im confused and exist any other easy way to show youtube videos with FeedGrab

really thanks!

Auto add category possible?

2010-06-11T04:52:38+00:00

I see that the plugin will auto-create a category in Method 2 of your Categories documentation, when the category is pulled from a feed item.

Is it possible to auto-create a category when using Method 1?

Here’s why I need that:

I want to grab the overall blog title (channel title) and store it as field data with each item, but as I can see no built in way to do that I am using the category parameter to treat it like a category. This works fine, so long as I use Method 1 and I have already created the categories in the weblog.

Would be great if the categories were auto-created if not present, but that seems to only apply to Method 2.

Put variable parameters into feedgrab (fields? global variables?)

2010-05-19T03:27:01+00:00

Hey Andrew,

I have a couple of questions about the feedgrab plugin.

I’ve set it up so that a client can choose from a feed, from a list of feeds, that he or she would like to take feed items from. I’m happy that I can use parameters to control the input into the feed. My “go” template code works like this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="feeds" limit="1"}

{exp:feedgrab url="{feed_url}" author="{logged_in_member_id}" 
weblog="13" title="title" date="pubDate" use="link|description" 
fields="feed_item_link|feed_item_body"}

{/exp:weblog}

<a href="{path='editorpages/feedview'}">Click to view / 
edit / select the feed items...</a> 

A couple of things:

When I try this the feedgrab tag with GZIP compression turned on in Expression Engine, I get an error (from every feed I try): “can’t decode raw data.” When I turn it off, it works fine. Is there a trick to making this work with GZIP?

Also, Is it possible to use the feedgrab plugin to insert values into other fields in my “feed items” weblog? I would like to, for instance, insert the entry_id of the feed that a feed_item belongs to and that the user chose from the list, into a custom field, for each feed item I import.

Thanks! I’m using Expression Engine 1.69, latest build.

R o B

Working, sort off.

2010-01-12T17:06:57+00:00

It does seems to work, partially

I’ve got the following in my templates:

GO template

{exp:feedgrab url="http://missing.amberalertnederland.nl/nl/index.rss" 
                          weblog="1" 
                          title="title"
                          date="pubDate"
                          use="link|description" 
                          fields="alert_url|alert_body" }

{exp:feedgrab url="http://alert.amberalertnederland.nl/nl/index.rss" 
                          weblog="1" 
                          title="title"
                          date="pubDate"
                          use="link|description" 
                          fields="alert_url|alert_body" } 

Index template

{exp:weblog:entries
    weblog="site" orderby="date"
    limit="10" show_future_entries="no"}

<h4><a href="{alert_url}">{title}</a></h4>
<p>{alert_body}</p>

{/exp:weblog:entries} 

Something is showing up, but it’s all empty. I want the newest of both RSS files to appear in the sidebar of my blog.

tag category doesn’t work with categorys in different groups :(

2010-01-05T14:23:49+00:00

Hi,

is it possible to use tag category in different category groups?

Problem with character

2010-01-03T22:23:19+00:00

Hi!

I have a Problem with character.

When Fetching: http://www.votpusk.ru/newsrss/tm/news42.xml

the database (utf8) records look like (wrong characters)

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Found new entry: Ïàññàæèðîîáîðîò ìèðîâûõ àâèàêîìïàíèé âûðîñ â íîÿáðå òðåòèé ìåñÿö ïîäðÿä
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may be, someone can help me? Thanks.