Best "bot" to post RSS content?
 

Does vbulletin 4.0 offer a better system for article posting (from rss feeds) with full content? Or is there a specific mod out there?

On this issue, is it bad practice to fetch rss content in relationship to seo? will it have a bad affect on search engine results?

thanks.

anyone?

What issues are you having?

you can use the built in RSS poster if you wish, you'll only get what the feed owners allow though

Is there another poster "robot" available that vb4.0.x can use. The built-in RSS robot is buggy.

I've worked with magpie and Zend_Feed and you can of course just use PHP's built-in SimpleXML...I haven't actually looked into vBulletin's RSS feed poster. What bugs are you experiencing?

The poster robot is awful. It worked great in 3.8.x

The 4.x poster robot randomly stops pulling the feed in, and after filling out a ticket with the vb designers said "this is normal and is by design" but they are not listening to what I'm trying to do.

The rss poster robot should pull in the contents of the RSS feed of the external site that you are trying to publish. I DON'T WANT THE FULL ARTICLE I WANT THE FULL CONTENT OF THE RSS FEED. The vb designers can't seem to understand this.

The poster robot randomly stops pulling in the rss feed, and will post anywhere from 5 characters to the entire rss feed article, and has no rhyme or reason why it does it.

One issue - or intended behavior - that support confirmed with me has to do with the underlying database's interaction with the RSS robot.

If an RSS feed item has been read by the RSS robot EVER, then it won't be re-read. You can create a new vBulletin RSS feed (based on your external RSS feed), you can freate a new forum, you can prune all the previousy generated RSS item threads - and the RSS items that have been previously read will NO be read again.

There was another post - can't remember which one - where the poster gave a SQL example of how to clear out this persisted durangement on the part of the RSS robot.

At that point, the RSS robot will re-read items.

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Along with my prior post, I've seen the scheduling be flaky as well. Like the last poster says, there is random stoppage in the RSS feeds. I don't think the scheduled jobs work properly but I haven't asked support about this yet.

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Danny.VBT - is it possible to incorporate a different RSS component into vBulletin?

Might be a fluke, but seems like after 4.0.5 all my rss feed problems are now resolved.

That's interesting. I'm at 4.0.2, so...you can bet I'll look into that patch. Thanks for mentioning that, even if it may not be the remedy.