eBay RSS Feeds

[Reece^B]

Problem, im using a eBay RSS feed but each time I click a link it keeps opening ontop of my sites URL. So instead of being it's own link as such.

Not Found

The requested URL /admincp/'http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1 was not found on this server.

[kh99]

I tried an ebay feed and didn't see any issues. Does that happen for all the links? If it's only the "Read More" link then maybe you have a problem with the template in the feed manager (maybe quotes around the {feed:link} where there shouldn't be any).

[Reece^B]

Thanks for your help, if you follow this link (http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/showthread.php?t=83312) and click the image you get the 404.

[Simon Lloyd]

Would you like to show us how you've taken the feed...etc, are you using vb's own rss bot or an add on?

EDIT: I think you may have a rogue . before the url you want to go to which is why it's giving the top level url first.

[Reece^B]

vB's own RSS feed from a eBay link. Im sure this has always been working okay until late.

[Simon Lloyd]

Can you show us the link you are using for the rss feed from your rss manager?

[Reece^B]

Sure, this is direct from eBay.

http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?keyword=%28pitbike%2Cpit+bike%29&categoryId1=9800&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=15&campaignid=5336923007&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&descriptionSearch=true&feedType=rss

[Simon Lloyd]

Sure, this is direct from eBay.

http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?keyword=%28pitbike%2Cpit+bike%29&categoryId1=9800&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=15&campaignid=5336923007&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&descriptionSearch=true&feedType=rssIs that EXACTLY what you have in your rss manager?

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Just checking your source code and you have this<a href="http://www.pitbikeclub.co.uk/#'http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&amp;toolid=10039&amp;campid=5336923007&amp;item=230826 649252&amp;vectorid=229508&amp;lgeo=1'" target="_blank"><img src="http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/pict/2308266492524040_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /></a><b>£450.00</b> (0 Bids)<br />
End Date: Thursday Jul-26-2012 15:10:20 BST<br />
Buy It Now for only: £700.00<br />
<a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&amp;toolid=10039&amp;campid=5336923007&amp;item=230826 649252&amp;vectorid=229508&amp;lgeo=1" target="_blank">Buy It Now</a> | <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&amp;toolid=10039&amp;campid=5336923007&amp;item=230826 649252&amp;vectorid=229508&amp;lgeo=1" target="_blank">Bid now</a> | <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=4&amp;toolid=10039&amp;campid=5336923007&amp;vectorid=22 9508&amp;lgeo=1&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi1.ebay.com%2Fws%2 FeBayISAPI.dll%3FMfcISAPICommand%3DMakeTrack%26ite m%3D230826649252%26ssPageName%3DRSS%3AB%3ASRCH%3AU S%3A104" target="_blank">Add to watch list</a> <br />
as you can see at the top your forum url and # is directly before the ebay link! so it's down to however you are injecting that in to the postbit under <!-- message -->

It could be to do with your image loader that you have.

[Reece^B]

Yes thats exactly it, if this helps i've just changed hosts...

[Simon Lloyd]

its not to do with your host its to do with how you get that in to the postbit including the picture...etc

[Reece^B]

Okay well how do I rectify this?

[Simon Lloyd]

you'll need to look at your image delivery mod i think, i believe thats where the problem is, if you want to pm me access i'll take a quick look but i've only got around 15 minutes before i have to get off for a while.

[kh99]

I get the same thing happening. I think there might be some strange characters that vb isn't handling very well. Anyway, I found that if I set "Convert HTML to BB Code" to no and "Allow HTML in Announcements" to yes, then the link works (but there's still one of those A with a circle on top things before the pound sign in the price).

[Simon Lloyd]

It seems that it's something to do with the delivery of the description and pic from ebay, it doesn't seem to be vbulletin at all, i did as kh99 suggests but it didnt change anything, everything else worked except clicking the pic.

[kh99]

With all the playing around I did, I forgot that I also had changed the end of the url to say feedType=atom, so that might have been part of it.

[Reece^B]

So is there a fix?

Thanks fellas!

[kh99]

Well, sort of - I think if you change to feedType=atom (at the end of the url), set "Convert HTML to BB Code" to no, and "Allow HTML in Announcements" to yes, that seemed to fix the links for me.

[Reece^B]

humm none of the images display when I select this.

[kh99]

Hmm...try changing feed:description (in the template) to feed:content:encoded. Unfortunately I deleted the feed I created yesterday so I'm not sure exactly how I had it.

Edit: OK, it's like this: I used this url: http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.atom?keyword=%28pitbike%2Cpit+bike%29&categoryId1=9800&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=15&campaignid=5336923007&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&descriptionSearch=true&feedType=atom (I changed the item.rss to item.atom as well as changing it at the end), changed feed:description to feed:content:encoded, and did the other things I mentioned above. To be honest, I don't know if they're all needed or not.

Edit: well, that seems to fix the link if you're posting as announcements, which I thought was what you were using, but I just looked at your site again and it looks like you're posting to a thread. So that means for this fix to work you'd have to enable html in the forum you're posting in, which you normally wouldn't want to do (unless no one else can post there).

Sorry - if I have more time I'll try to look in to it more.