The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

Viks · #1 03-23-2005, 12:52 AM

hi folks,
I am not sure of this is the right forum to ask this... but here is what i wanted to find out more abt.

I would like to get latest news articles from news websites as news feeds on my forums. I would like to pull news feeds from selected sites (reputable news websites) that contain specific words.

My question is

1. Is it possible to do this?
2. How will the news feeds/news articles show up on my forums?
3. Is there a mod that picks up feeds or fetches the feeds and dsiplays is accordingly?
4. Would I have to pay to websites for taking the news feed and displaying them on my forum?
5. Is there any drawback of whi whole process... like on forum s/w, members, database, etc, etc.
6. What are you personal opinion of such a feature?
7. is there any FAQ etc i can read to get more info?

I am very new to this newsfeed thingy.. and any help from members here will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Viks

noppid · #2 03-23-2005, 01:21 AM

I wrote both for my sites. I have a different news topic posted as a thread per day that rotates weekly.

I also have a news page that folks can choose from topics to get on demand.

The feeds are published for your use, you are expected to keep the publisher information intact when displaying the items is all that is usually required.

There are hacks around to do both. Avoid hacks that brew their own RSS reader and opt for one that uses an RFC complient and caching RSS reader like carp.

Viks · #3 03-23-2005, 01:45 PM

hmmm.. thanks for the insight. Any idea if I can see a demo?

noppid · #4 03-23-2005, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viks

hmmm.. thanks for the insight. Any idea if I can see a demo?

Follow either of the links in my sig, both forums use the news feeds in both ways I've cited.

Viks · #5 03-24-2005, 03:23 AM

Hi noopid. thank for this.
I checked it out and did find it good.

However I am looking for a news feed that will search certain news websites for 2, 3 or 4 keywords. IF it find it then

pick that news articles and post it in a forum as one single thread.

is that possible???

I WILL appreciate any response on this from any members, mderators, admins here.

thanks

noppid · #6 03-24-2005, 03:44 AM

That's exactly what yahoo! news allows. Those are custom news requests to them in most of the links. Seach for news on any topic ya want on demand. It's awsome IMO.

Viks · #7 03-24-2005, 02:12 PM

So you wrote the mod yourself???

any plans to share it here on vb.org

I hav been looking into CaRP http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/ but not sure if it will work with vB.

noppid · #8 03-24-2005, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viks

So you wrote the mod yourself???

any plans to share it here on vb.org

I hav been looking into CaRP http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/ but not sure if it will work with vB.

That's my RSS app of choice, I purchased it.

It's what my scripts are based on. I won't be releasing them, soemone else did it and I don't care to deal with the politics of releasing one of the same idea, even if mine is less code and works.

Sorry.

wacodep · #9 03-31-2005, 05:37 PM

Okay, why does THIS feed work fine using the v1.26 hack:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

But this one does NOT?
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rs...F-8&fl=0&x=wrt

noppid · #10 03-31-2005, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wacodep

Okay, why does THIS feed work fine using the v1.26 hack:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

But this one does NOT?
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rs...F-8&fl=0&x=wrt

Ya better post in the hack thread. This may not get noticed here.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.04285 seconds Memory Usage 2,250KB Queries Executed 13 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (1)ad_showthread_firstpost (1)ad_showthread_firstpost_sig (1)ad_showthread_firstpost_start (3)bbcode_quote (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)navbar (3)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (1)pagenav_pagelink (10)post_thanks_box (10)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (10)post_thanks_postbit_info (10)postbit (10)postbit_onlinestatus (10)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_postinfo_query fetch_postinfo fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
Messages:

The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

It is not a VB3 engine, just a parsed copy!