Yes, the robot has carte blanche. It can even post to forums that don't allow posting. Probably the pulldown list for forumids should skip them, but it doesn't. You'd probably need to hack the code and set whatever flag is associated with each post for moderation status.

Regards,

Matt

I think you are asking not how to setup the Google News Alert but how to configure the Article Bot to post from a Google News Alert?

I don't think that's possible, yet.

But on a related point I am upset that about 1/2 the articles the Google News Alert turns up seem to require a password subscription. Sometimes not on the first visit from the mail link, but as the post ages a day or two, or perhaps on return visits.

Have you seen this? http://www.bugmenot.com (a system that provides free passwords for various news and subscription services)

Regards,

Matt

Great hack!

Installed and working a treat, thanks :)

Is that true? :(
I receive the google e-mails about the topic that I like and wanted to setup with the Article Bot hack.

I thought some other member in this thread (few pages earlier) mention that it does work. I should look back and post.

Here it is!
buro9, please help me on setting up Google News Alert to work together with the Article Bot. Thank you.

You want to be looking at this:
http://wonko.com/software/mailfeed/

It's what I use with Article Bot to get emails into forums via RSS.

If you don't want to go so far as hacking scripts, then consider mail bucket:
http://www.mailbucket.org/

In both cases you'll need to modify Article Bot slightly to allow any sized RSS description to pass throught (so the email content isn't truncated).

I can't get this to work, tried it with yahoo and bbc feeds, doesn't seem to get anything, I run the script and the page is blank with the text "ArticleBOT"

When i try to Add Article Bot I get this Error message?
What does it mean?

Do i have to create a member on the forum first with this "Bot name"?

ErikXXon
Ill have VB 3.0.3

The PHP script just updates the database entries, it is not supposed to display anything itself. It's like a "cron job" and not meant to generate any visible output.

I'm using this as a way to incorporate Web links via My Furl from the RSS feed, see example. It could be cool, because then we could also have discussions about the web links if we want.

Is there any way to stop posts from Articlebot from showing up in New Posts? I had another feed set up, but I ended up deleting it because I didn't like all of the items from that feed showing up under New Posts.

Does vBulletin have a mechanism, or is there a hack available, to exclude forum(s) from the New Posts? I'm using separate forums for each feed, so if there was some way I could exclude a forum from the New Posts, that would work.