maybe Velocd is busy. his life isn't to watch this place all the time. i know he has a life outside vbulletin.org.

I have everything setup except the crontab until I get things running right. I created a NewsBot user to posts the articles and everything shoudl e setup right. When I go to execute the articlebot.php file manually i get a white screen and no errors (which I figure is a good thing). But no headlines are posted. The first one I setup is Slashdot's RSS feed located at http://slashdot.org/index.rss

Any tips on where to look to figure out why this isn't working?

I am now able to get the Slashdot feed to work by turning off the similar threads option and by turning off the option to ignore posts without a description.

I also have a feed setup for Bluesnews and The Inquirer. Both of these two are setup the same as the Slashdot feed but articles from them are not posting. I am using the same user to post all three and I assume that part is ok.

Any ideas?

Ok, im going to install this all over again, i wasnt very happy last time as it went slightly wrong, lets hope this time the results are better ;)

/me wonders why he even bothered try to install it again, he realises he has wasted his time and wonders if there is still a way to fix the mod so it will asctually post news!

Than you need to follow the instructions percisely, and read on modifications that fix the bugs.

What I'd really like to see happen with this is two things.

a) The news posts don't count towards user post total. Although the forum properties are set to it, it still posts towards the total amount.

b) Automatically prune the news after X amount of posts.

Although I realize no one is innovating on this script, I hope there is a chance.

vbulletin should have an auto-pruning option on each forum, like phpbb does. That would solve your problem if your RSS forums were distinct from your regular forums.

You should perhaps look at this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67049

I don't really care too much about the post count thing, but I agree that it would be proper for it not to count.

I installed this hack and setup my cron and all that. I am getting no errors, but no articles are being posted. I setup my BOT and put its ID in the proper field. It is active. I then setup my feed and pointed it to that BOT and pointed it to the forum I want it in.

My feed is http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/RSS_FEEDS/RSS_ALL_News.xml

I also edited my articlebot.php file with the proper path.

What is wrong?

Run the articlebot.php manually, than if something does show up it's your crontab input. If not, try a different RSS feed, make sure the userID is right, etc. Just double check everything.