"News Bot" type mod needed
 

Can someone tell me where to get a mod that automatically posts threads in a specific forum for each news item. I assume it's driven off of RSS feeds or something.

The thread title is the title of the article, and inside is a link to the full article and a short excerpt.

I saw this at the site below and really want it:

http://www.clutchfitness.com/files/newsbot.jpg

Go to the vB ACP -> RSS Feeds -> Add New RSS Feed. There you can set a feed such that it posts to a forum. More information on how to set up a feed can be found at http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/rssposter

Its worth mentioning that this is a new core feature that was introduced with vBulletin 3.6:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...79&postcount=9



Besides that, it's also possible to affect the same (and with more features/customizability) with an add-on called ArticleBot.

There's another one, called Inferno RSS but it's not nearly as configurable.

awesome - thanks for the feedback! I'll start with the core vb version first and see if that meets my needs! Nifty!

Very cool. I have never played with RSS feeds before. All the ones I setup only have 1 or 2 lines of text with a link for "more information".

Is this how they all are? Kindof a tease but I guess why people create them....

Not all are like that. Some feeds and weblogs syndicate the full article.

Can you post some that give you the full article please.

There are hundreds of thousands of feeds out there. Name a category, I guess?

Here's a blog site that I like: http://www.fresharrival.com/
RSS feed here: http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/feed/atom/

The issue is that I am tring to get full articles out of the rss instead of a partial based on keyword.

Example, If I want to import from rss articles with keyword "adsense" from google or yahoo feeds I get 3 or 4 lines and a click here button for the rest.

I am trying to find a way even if its a paid service to import the full article.

thanks in advance for any answers.

Yeah, but that's an issue with how Google and/or Yahoo have chosen to syndicate out their RSS services. Sorry, I'm not aware of any alternatives to achieve what you are looking for.

ok sorry I got excited when I saw this post ;)

"Some feeds and weblogs syndicate the full article."

It gave me hope fr a bit... lol

Primarily because that has been held to be copyright infringement. :( The only way is to got on some sort of newswire or ap service, both of which charge subsantial amounts of money.