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[TimberFloorAu]

We have a bouyant and busy forum news section.

However, it would be nice to automate the news.

Basically, I would like to:

a) create a NEWSBOT user.
b) fetch news ( somehow ) from specific sites
c) auto post the news as a New Thread, posted by NEWSBOT

Is this possible, it sounds like RSS is the saviour, but being a bloody noob with rss, and parsing this as a thread.. is beyond me, but I am sure is totally dooable...

Has anyone achieved this ?
If so how so... can you help ?

Cheers Big Ears

Ste

[Lynne]

RSS Feeds are the answer. However, you will not get the full text from the site of the feed, just a blurb with a link to the original article on the original site.

You can play with it on your test site and see how it works.

[TimberFloorAu]

Im absolutely "virginal" with RSS as you may well know from previous questions Lynne.

My issue, I think.. is how to parse the rss feed into a new thread, automatically...

this is the bit I cannot quite figure.

[Lynne]

Take a look at the RSS Manager - it has a default template right there for how the thread gets parsed. Just leave it all default when you first play with it and you'll see what it does.

[TimberFloorAu]

Take a look at the RSS Manager - it has a default template right there for how the thread gets parsed. Just leave it all default when you first play with it and you'll see what it does.

Thanks :up: