I am wondering, using the who's online hack I display "getting the articles..." for location instead of /var/www/etc../.../articlebot.php. Is there a way to make it display a name instead of "Guest" ?

I noticed this too a while back... noone offered a way to fix it. :(

I have the articlebot running via a vB Scheduled Task. The thing you have to remember about the scheduled tasks is that it's not a "real" cron job - it depends on activity on your forum to kick it off.

You may want to take a look at the NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ) & Mailing Lists mod. I am using the gateway to import emails instead of newsgroups and it works great. I have created several different email addresses @ my domain for the different categories of news/information that I am receiving emails for.

I've found an interesting (and yet aggrevating) issue w/ Article Bot...

I'm pulling RSS from this URL:
which I have edited to remove my access code (sorry guys, register and you can have one too ;))

HOWEVER here is what Article Bot is storing (due in part possibly to storing it as rendered html?)
You might see the problem: namely the & instead of & as a result of this I cannot pull RSS from any of the feeds on this site (seeing as they require the category and code to access them.

Is there a quick way I can get around this? I'm going to try to investigate the storage of the RSS URL when I get home, but perhaps someone has some insight before I start? :)


EDIT: i used [code ] tags for the url's in hopes that they wont render as real links simply so you can see the & issue :)

and...i figured it out thanks to some input from Ianomed :D I have yet to find a URL that this has an adverse affect on, but if someone finds one please let me know :)

How To:
1) Open /admincp/articlebot_admin.php
2) Do a find for:
And replace with:
Save and upload :) Pretty simple, it uses html_entity_decode to convert the html entities to their applicable characters. It's working for me so far and is rendering valid URL's now!

Awesome work ...few questions...

Is there anyway to control the style of the text etc ?

Is there any possibility to have the ability to include images if they are available ?

Cheers

Paul

Hello. Seemingly basic question (since nobody has asked it in 28 pages).

How do I add the articlebot_post template. Is it the 'vbulletin-style.xml' page that I alter? If so, what does the code look like?

Thanks. I'm very new to VB.

No, just open the styles and templates and in the little pull down menu choose the "Add New Template".

-Jason

I'm trying to import this XML feed:

http://news.biohealthmatics.com/feeds/rssnews.aspx

The link in the xml file looks lik this:

<link>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041117/law061_1.html</link>

but I'm getting a malformed URL like this on import:

http://<br%20/>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041117/law061_1.html<br%20/>

Any ideas as to what is going on here and how I can fix it? I have several other feeds that are importing just fine. :confused: