[v1.6] Inferno RSS Forum Feeds Technology

This hack was made purely by request, and the fact IPB will have a similar system as default functionality, i wouldn't like them to have a upper hand to vbulletin

v1.5 Updates:
- Auto detect RSS settings system
- Forum stats rebuilt correctly (last post info)

v1.6 Updates:
- Various bug fixes

Description:
This once added to your forum allows you to connect to any RSS feed you desire, once set up the system will automatically post data from the RSS feed into threads within a specified forum.

Previews are available at the bottom, and an FAQ is built into the admin controls since I know not everyone will understand how to set up the options. Also an example to use a BBC UK News rss feed is below

Example BBC UK News Feed:
Feed Name: BBC UK News
Feed Location: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
Feed Prefix: [BBC UK News]
Feed From User: Assign users username of your own choice
Feed Forum: Choose a forum you want threads to be posted into
Feed Read Direction: Newest First
Parent RSS Tag Name: channel
Items RSS Tag Name: item
Thread Title RSS Tag Name: title
Thread Post RSS Construct:

[b]Published:[/b] {XML[pubDate]}

{XML[description]}
[url={XML[link]}]Read More...[/url]

Note: After adding a new feed i suggest clicking update for that feed, this will manually update that singular feed specified, the cron job included will automatically update all feeds, best not to have it update them all from the start otherwise it could execute a lot of queries. Further more I highly recommend you do not have lots of feeds unless your server can with-stand it.

Enjoy

- Zero Tolerance

[kall]

Yahoo and Goole News: http://www.nzboards.com/forums/new-zealand-news-feeds/

[michaelsilvia]

A few questions. I added the add on to this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=108377

Is there a way to either:

1. Turn off the auto posting or;
2. Have the post show up better?

In the Thread Post RSS Construct I am using XLM, but that doesn't show up well on my forum. The links are broken. What is the best way to use the mod and have the RSS feeds post well.

[subnet_rx]

Anyone know what keeps a feed item from appearing twice?

[webgroup]

Originally Posted by webgroup

I'm only getting this in my rss posts:

Thread Title: MSN News h

News: h

h
Date: h

also the thread title has at the end the "h"

Any help?

Thanks!!!

any help?

[TheOutdoors]

I'm also getting the "Invalid URL To RSS Feed Given" error when adding any feed, regardless of where it originates from.

Since I can't get this to work, is there another mod that will do the same thin, or, if there a workaround or fix that some of you are using?

Thanks,

Jeremy Henricks
Discuss The Outdoors
http://www.discusstheoutdoors.com/

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Kwak

I happened to have the Articlebot installed but it never worked ever since I've installed it, but might be because it is compatible with only v.3.0.

ArticleBot for 3.0 is here

ArticleBot for 3.5.x has been moved to http://www.vbmodder.com.

[AyeCapn]

Installed and working great, with the exception of special characters showing up as garbage.

[kafi]

Originally Posted by AyeCapn

Installed and working great, with the exception of special characters showing up as garbage.

yeah would be nice to have some sort of translator functions, because some RSS are in different charset then forum charset...

[stevenb7]

I created a forum specifically for the feeds and set it to moderate new threads so i can review the news and only post news that is really interesting to my users. However the posts show up right away, what do i need to change so the post await moderation?

[ibeblunt]

Originally Posted by stevenb7

I created a forum specifically for the feeds and set it to moderate new threads so i can review the news and only post news that is really interesting to my users. However the posts show up right away, what do i need to change so the post await moderation?

You need to change your cron job from checking the feed every minute, assuming that you are using the settings found in the setup instructions.

ACP > TASK MANAGER > Scheduled Task Manager

Edit RSS Feeds Update.

Change the minutes or hour. Depending on how you need it.