RSS items as posts

[zCarot]

NAME: RSS items as posts v0.6
DESCRIPTION: RSS items are added as the posts of the choosen topic.
AUTHOR and IDEA: zCarot (www.zcarot.com (http://www.zcarot.com))
INSTALLATION TIME: 2-5 minutes
DIFFICULTY: average

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

--------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------

By default vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.0 and 4.1 can import RSS elements as threads and announcements.
This mod allows you to import them as messages as well!
It can be convenient for RSS with the important information which doesn't required to be discussed.

----------------------------------- REMARKS -----------------------------------

If the thread ID does not set, than the name of RSS feed will be the used as title of the topic.
If the topic still does not exist in the specified forum, it will be created with first item of RSS.
Practically all adjustments for display of RSS items as topics will influence on their display as posts.

---------------------------- INSTALL & UPGRADE ----------------------------

See at readme.txt

------------------------------------ HISTORY -----------------------------------

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

---------------------------------- SCREENSHOTS -----------------------------------
Standard version
1 element = 1 thread:
79188

My version.
1 rss feed = 1 thread:
79189
1 element = 1 post:
79190


YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

[delmarva]

Thanks!

[cafenetland]

let me try it.

sounds interesting

[cafenetland]

i dont really understand what it does.

i thought its creating full topics which opens by the RSS manager.

i mean users dont need to click "more" to read the whole content.

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">cafenetland

This hack just allows you to post items of RSS feed as posts of the thread. By default you can post items of RSS feed as announcements or threads of the forum.

This hack does not change anything else.

P.S. If you want to get all content from RSS feed of vBulletin forums then you can try to add "&fulldesc=1" to the end of the link.
For example:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=1&fulldesc=1</font>

[7lanet]

I am trying to use the rss with Http://www.portaliz.com/forum

But not shows topic only topic title
Use

{feed:title}

{rss:content:encoded}

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">7lanet

This RSS feed does not provide description. You can not get it for this feed without grabbing HTML.</font>

[jiteshdubey11]

done......

[zelnik]

Great just what I was looking for!

Time to go install!

[Nadeemjp]

cafenetland

This hack just allows you to post items of RSS feed as posts of the thread. By default you can post items of RSS feed as announcements or threads of the forum.

This hack does not change anything else.

P.S. If you want to get all content from RSS feed of vBulletin forums then you can try to add "&fulldesc=1" to the end of the link.
For example:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=1&fulldesc=1

will this work for RSS feeds from other site too? (I am refering to full contents display)

[zCarot]

Nadeemjp,

Nope :( Only for vBulletin forums.

[Nadeemjp]

awww, i see.
it is just wht i was looking for, however, i am also looking for some hack that could force the full contents display from the RSS feed....is there any such thing that exists?:)

installed nonetheless:)

[lorddomain]

This is great!!!

[Nadeemjp]

i upgraded to 3.8.2 and this hack disappeared:(

[Nadeemjp]

please update it to the latest version

[Lynne]

i upgraded to 3.8.2 and this hack disappeared:(
You upgraded from what version to 3.8.2? I'm running it on 3.8.0 just fine. Make sure you are running the lastest version and that you read the instructions carefully (there were some changes from the previous version).

[Mesohu]

awww, i see.
it is just wht i was looking for, however, i am also looking for some hack that could force the full contents display from the RSS feed....is there any such thing that exists?:)

installed nonetheless:)

This will be the best hack for vB ("a hack that could force the full contents display from the RSS feed.")

[BiZiMDiYaR]

Hi,

Just had a question... somebody told me that having this addon is bad for your Google PR... is this correct.. ? due to you are getting the data from other sites etc... Can anybiody advice on this. Thanks.

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">Nadeemjp
Try to delete this mod and repeat all installation steps.

BiZiMDiYaR
Yea.. Content must be unique for search engines. I suggest to close threads with RSS content from guests.</font>

[BiZiMDiYaR]

Hi,

But I have vbseo.. so I assume that is added in the sitemap... or maybe I need to let vbseo to ignore that post or so... any suggestion ?

Thanks.

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">BiZiMDiYaR
Sorry, I can't provide solution for you. Ask at vbseo.com</font>

[Nadeemjp]

i uninstalled and then re-installed. but nothing happened.
maybe you hsould upgrade to all versions of 3.8?

[daddel80]

Hi,

Is there a way of getting the WHOLE list of the RSS Feed. VB only passes the new or changed topics. As i want to read a complete Top Ten list i'm getting always gaps in the numeration.

Is it possible to implement this in this hack as an additional function?

Thanks!

[zCarot]

Hi,

Is there a way of getting the WHOLE list of the RSS Feed. VB only passes the new or changed topics. As i want to read a complete Top Ten list i'm getting always gaps in the numeration.

Is it possible to implement this in this hack as an additional function?

Thanks!

Sorry, but no.

[RetroDreams]

Developer: Do you have plans on porting this to vB4 when it comes out? This is probably one of the most elegant and useful hacks out there. Should come STANDARD in vBulletin.

[mostafa10601]

i uninstalled and then re-installed. but nothing happened. ..!

plz help me.

[signTEK]

That's just what I wanted ... But the AddOn doesn't check if either there are new posts or not - what it does is post the specified number of news, even if they aren't new.

So basically it adds the same 5 posts every 10 minutes. Can someone help me with that?

Thx and greetings from Germany ...

[Ava-Kyrillos]

First thanks a lot for your greet hack

please help me in 3 questions about this

1- how I can know the rss link for any website i want to copy from it.

2- how i can protect my website rss from copy to othe website.

3- how i can read rss for member from a forum and don't read all rss

[marshal_ramdev]

thanks

[drsli]

Thank you very much for this useful enhancement! :) This is obviously the solution to my headaches with the floods of rss-announcements showing up in the unread/new-posts-summaries. So now I?m able to include forums with rss-feeds and regular content into the newposts-summaries without being dominated by the rss-infos.

[drsli]

I hope I installed it properly. I performed all the subsequent edits from the readme and installed the xml.
I checked the options "Merge many RSS items to one post" and "Merge with old post" and forced the post to keep the old dateline.
The initial sticky thread is created accordingly. A little issue: the title of the first entry doesn´t catch the markup - it´s always plain text.

There is a double-entry to find furthermore.

The second automatic entry with 6 items is always rejected by the database-system with the following error-message:

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '
1253460094,
'News was added',
'CNN corresponde' at line 8
Error Number : 1064

Maybe I edited the php-files not correctly?

[segwayon]

cafenetland

This hack just allows you to post items of RSS feed as posts of the thread. By default you can post items of RSS feed as announcements or threads of the forum.

This hack does not change anything else.

P.S. If you want to get all content from RSS feed of vBulletin forums then you can try to add "&fulldesc=1" to the end of the link.
For example:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=1&fulldesc=1

Where would this edit happen?

[segwayon]

Question related to RRS feeds and VB. I use a Google news source, but the RSS stories each come with this line:

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />

Is there a way to fix that in the AdminCP?

[AndrewRich]

I had to completely re-install this mod after upgrading to 3.8.3 PL1. After reinstalling, still works fine.

[Clayton]

would this work in 3.6 .. please?

[zCarot]

<font color="DarkSlateBlue">Clayton

Yep.
3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x</font>

[Clayton]

Thank you .. will delve a little deeper shortly

Thanks

[Lynne]

Clayton

Yep.
3.6.x, 3.7.x and 3.8.x
I'm not sure if you've installed vB4 yet, but it also seems to work on there also. (I've just done limited testing of it on my test board, but it worked.)

[metrika]

I still dont know what it does

[Clayton]

metrika .. instead of creating a new thread for each rss post, it places the rss posts in to one thread

so if you have a subject thread called Life in Honk Kong and your rss feed is from Life in Hong Kong the posts will all be made in the Life in Honk Kong thread and not many different threads

Hope this helps

C

[hilfe-forum]

vb 4.0 version please
:)

[Lynne]

vb 4.0 version please
:)
Read three posts above yours...
I'm not sure if you've installed vB4 yet, but it also seems to work on there also. (I've just done limited testing of it on my test board, but it worked.)

[hilfe-forum]

Read three posts above yours...


Oh Sorry :o

[fer_75]

Hi Lynne,

When I import it to 4.0.1 i get this:

Las siguientes dependencias no se cumplieron:

1. Este producto no es compatible con la versi?n 4.0.1 de vBulletin. (Compatible Empezando con 3.5.999 / Incompatible con 3.8.999 y mayor)

Means it is not compatible.

I would really like to see it updated. I can donate right now to have it updated.

[zCarot]

Hi Lynne,

When I import it to 4.0.1 i get this:



Means it is not compatible.

I would really like to see it updated. I can donate right now to have it updated.
try to change this string at .xml file:

<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.5.999" maxversion="3.8.999" />
</dependencies>
to
<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.5.999" maxversion="4.0.999" />
</dependencies>

Sorry, but I have no time for updating this mod to 4.x and even for testing it.

[fer_75]

It works great with this fix Zcarot, thanks a lot. and I confirm it is also working on 4.0.1

[xBhp]

It works great! Thanks

[DeejayDMX]

i have a problem:

01.01.1970 - Video zum Testsieger: 15,6-Zoll-Notebook Lenovo G550 im Test

He always shows only on 01.01.1970 ..

[Drake Splinter]

try to change this string at .xml file:

<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.5.999" maxversion="3.8.999" />
</dependencies>
to
<dependencies>
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.5.999" maxversion="4.0.999" />
</dependencies>

Sorry, but I have no time for updating this mod to 4.x and even for testing it.

I can confirm that using this edit also works for 4.0.2

Thanks!

[jarosciak]

There is a problem with adding rss using this hack.
If I am adding RSS feed with more titles (over 10) and adding each rss feed as a separate forum post, then first 10 posts in chronological order always end up on my forum on a second page (as forum posts number 11-20) and on the first page are posts older.
Obviously, it means that if newer posts are starting on a second page, then an entire thread will make no sense.
For this single reason I can't use it.
Can you provide the fix?

UPDATE:
I think it has something to do with the Date of the post.
I've manually changed the dates of all 20 posts in POST table (under dateline) and all forum post are sorted fine now.
Is there any way to add this to your script? Maybe it could use dates from RSS or something like that, because all 20 posts (in this case) had the same epoch.

[Shenanigans]

Awesome, thanks!

[ispots]

Does anyone recognize this error?? I tried to install on vb4.0 and am getting this error.

I REAAALLY want this product to work!! I've gotten used to it!

Fatal error: Field threadid is not defined in $validfields in class vB_DataManager_RSSFeed in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 515
#0 vb_error_handler(256, Field threadid is not defined in $validfields in class vB_DataManager_RSSFeed, /home/s2katl/public_html/forum/includes/class_dm.php

[Super-six]

Ive read this entire thread and I did not see mention of something:

Is this hack enabled to pull multiple different RSS feeds into different areas
of your forum?
IOW, I hypothetically have one RSS news feed ported into a news forum subsection, and
a second RSS feed from a photography site ported into an Art forum area and a
third RSS feed from a weather site ported into a regional weather forum area, etc, etc ,etc.
[All on the same board]

This hack can do that?

[Clayton]

Super-six, I would have thought all you need do is create separate RSS feeds to each forum via the RSS Feed Manager to achieve this?

I currently feed various feeds to various forums, this hack would hopefully add the feed as posts to to given thread in given forum

however I have yet to test the RSS items as posts but do use the built in RSS Feed Manager to deliver to the various forums on topic

hope this helps and whether zcarot can add to this

[Jah-Hools]

Can this auto upload the little photo that eBay's rss spits out?

Thanks

UPDATE! - YES!

[Jah-Hools]

Very excited to get going with this one!

Does anyone know if it is possible (using this plug in) to have multiple RSS feeds streaming into ONE thread?

[AndrewRich]

Very excited to get going with this one!

Does anyone know if it is possible (using this plug in) to have multiple RSS feeds streaming into ONE thread?
Yes, just set both feeds to use the same thread ID. Make sure they're both set to "new item as post" and not "new item as thread".

[BirdOPrey5]

I don't understand the install instructions... the current version is 0.5.3- do I only make the file edits under "Install" or none at all- it looks like I don''t need to make any file edits but if so why include them in the readme file at all?

[Jah-Hools]

Yes, just set both feeds to use the same thread ID. Make sure they're both set to "new item as post" and not "new item as thread".

Thanks!

Thread ID ????

is that simply the thread URL

Or some other number "code"

(sorry to be a dunce)

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks!

Thread ID ????

is that simply the thread URL

Or some other number "code"

(sorry to be a dunce)

ThreadID would be the number from the thread url.

For example this thread url is:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201742
The thread id is: 201742

[Jah-Hools]

AHHH!!!

I get it now!

(no wonder it wasn't working exactly right!)

Many thanks!
:up:

[BirdOPrey5]

I installed this but nothing changed in my admin cp... RSS Feed Manager looks exactly the same- no options were added in vbulletin options- how do I use this? :confused:

[BirdOPrey5]

I installed this but nothing changed in my admin cp... RSS Feed Manager looks exactly the same- no options were added in vbulletin options- how do I use this? :confused:

OK, I made the file edits and now it works...

I thank the coder very much for this mod- this should really be a built in option in vBulletin which I think is about the highest compliment you could give a developer... but that said I have to take issue with the documentation for this mod... It's confusing and misleading.

In the top post it clearly says if you are using version > 0.5 (and this is 0.5.3) then all you need to do was upload the XML product- but in fact you have to make file edits contained in the install text file... That file lists this install as "average" but this is multiple edits to 3 different files in 3 different directories- this is the most file edits I've ever had to make for a vBulletin mod- it's still worth it but I wish the instructions were a little clearer and a little more open/honest.

[Lynne]

In the top post it clearly says if you are using version > 0.5 (and this is 0.5.3) then all you need to do was upload the XML product- but in fact you have to make file edits contained in the install text file...
Actually, it says if you are doing an Update, then all you have to do is upload the new file. It tells you to read the ReadMe text file for installation instructions.

[BirdOPrey5]

so it does... :o

[athehun11]

I had it working for 4.0.6, but it's not working anymore on 4.0.7

[BirdOPrey5]

I had it working for 4.0.6, but it's not working anymore on 4.0.7

There were file edits needed for this mod, you have to remake the edits every time you upgrade.

[athehun11]

There were file edits needed for this mod, you have to remake the edits every time you upgrade.

Ah, I feel stupid now. Thanks.

[RTWAP]

The plugin itself works fine but I'm constantly getting duplicate posts. Any reason?

[cmmguy]

I am having the same issue as this unanswered post:
There is a problem with adding rss using this hack.
If I am adding RSS feed with more titles (over 10) and adding each rss feed as a separate forum post, then first 10 posts in chronological order always end up on my forum on a second page (as forum posts number 11-20) and on the first page are posts older.
Obviously, it means that if newer posts are starting on a second page, then an entire thread will make no sense.
For this single reason I can't use it.
Can you provide the fix?

UPDATE:
I think it has something to do with the Date of the post.
I've manually changed the dates of all 20 posts in POST table (under dateline) and all forum post are sorted fine now.
Is there any way to add this to your script? Maybe it could use dates from RSS or something like that, because all 20 posts (in this case) had the same epoch.


I take an RSS feed from my chat and turn it into posts for everyone to read later of for those who are blocked from the chat. But because the shortest RSS feed is 10 minutes, there may be 10 to 20 chats in between each RSS call to the chat feed. This results in out of sequence posts.

For example:

First RSS check and posted in this order:
Chat Message 11
Chat Message 10
Chat Message 9
Chat Message 8
Chat Message 7
Chat Message 6
Chat Message 5
Chat Message 4
Chat Message 3
Chat Message 2
Chat Message 1

Next RSS check and posted in this order:
Chat Message 22
Chat Message 21
Chat Message 20
Chat Message 19
Chat Message 18
Chat Message 17
Chat Message 16
Chat Message 15
Chat Message 14
Chat Message 13
Chat Message 12

This results in the posts out of sequence.

Is there anyway to reverse the posting, so instead of starting at the "top" of the RSS feed and working down through it, it could start at the bottom and work up... sort of reversing the loop?

Thanks. It does work well except for this.

[Uberguilds]

The plugin itself works fine but I'm constantly getting duplicate posts. Any reason?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[BirdOPrey5]

My guess is it's the RSS feed pushing out duplicate content. I get one RSS feed from PCWORLD that is always full of duplicates, seriously thinking of dropping them... But my others almost never have duplicates.

[zCarot]

0.6 (2011/03/27)
- Small fix for full support of vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x
- NEW: Support for reversing order of RSS feed
- FIXED: DB error with merging posts

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261003

Sorry for so long inactive time. If somebody still have some problems or questions - post them on the new thread. I will not answer in this thread anymore.

P.S. Click "Mark as Installed" in the new thread, if you want to recieve emails about future updates

The plugin itself works fine but I'm constantly getting duplicate posts. Any reason?

My guess is it's the RSS feed pushing out duplicate content. I get one RSS feed from PCWORLD that is always full of duplicates, seriously thinking of dropping them... But my others almost never have duplicates.

Yep, it's your RSS feed problem. They change something (may be just add or remove one character, even a dot) => item have different md5 sum => you have a duplicate post

[nervice]

Does anyone recognize this error?? I tried to install on vb4.0 and am getting this error.

I REAAALLY want this product to work!! I've gotten used to it!

I'm afraid this post was never answered. I have the same issue on vB 3.8.2.

Field threadid is not defined in $validfields in class vB_DataManager_RSSFeed in [path]/includes/class_dm.php

What can I do to solve this issue?

[nervice]

Sorry, my mistake.
I skipped one line in the install instructions ("3. In file includes\class_dm_rssfeed.php").
One needs to be really careful with all these code modifications.
It works now :)

[appsfinder]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function convert_wysiwyg_html_to_bbcode() in /home/myweb/public_html/includes/cron/rssposter.php(375) : eval()'d code on line 257

[MD_Hacker]

Is there a way of changing {feed:date} to only display the date in titles, rather than the date and time?