RSS feeds?

[RedGTiVR6]

I thought at one time vBulletin had RSS feeds, is this the case and I'm just overlooking it somehow?

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

[dm_fan]

Yep,
RSS feeds are built in (at least they are on my version 3.5) but I think they are disabled by default. Check out the online docs and search for feeds

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/

Steve

[RedGTiVR6]

Thanks for the reply.

I'd like to have an RSS feed for each of our forums and sub forums.

How would I go about doing this?

[calorie]

Go to the vB ACP -> RSS Feeds -> Add New RSS Feed and enter the requested information including into what forum the RSS feed is to be posted. Click the question mark icons for further information.

[akoj]

I am just now looking into importing rss feeds. I know I am way behind the times. Can someone recommend a good place to look for feeds.

[Brandon Sheley]

calorie just told you how to import feeds

try google for feeds

[akoj]

I know how to import them, that wasn't me asking.

I was just looking for a recommendation on a place that might be easier than google to find decent feeds. I have a site aimed at kids so I need to be pretty careful with the content.

[RedGTiVR6]

Originally Posted by calorie

Go to the vB ACP -> RSS Feeds -> Add New RSS Feed and enter the requested information including into what forum the RSS feed is to be posted. Click the question mark icons for further information.

I don't want to post the feeds to forum.

I want it so that each of our forums generates its own RSS feed.

I don't want to pull feeds from another site and post them on our forum.

We are a CarPC site. We have a lot of wired users, naturally. Many times, these users want to keep an eye on a specific forum (Power Supplies, Screens, Work Logs, etc.) and want to do so by having each forum have it's own RSS.

Perhaps I'm using the terminology wrong?

[dm_fan]

That might have been my mistake. If you search for "feeds" in the Docs I linked above you only get info about importing RSS feeds. Try searching for "External Data Provider". You should get this info:

Implementing the External Data Provider
The External Data Provider is used to syndicate this information to external websites. This feature uses the permissions for the Unregistered / Not Logged In usergroup. If that usergroup doesn't have permissions to view the forum, the feeds will not work.

Below are examples on how you can control what is shown on these websites.

To syndicate in a Javascript format you would call the following URL from your external site. This will require additional javascript on the external site (an example is listed below).
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...al.php?type=js

Example Code:
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/external.php?type=js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (i in threads)
{
document.writeln(threads[i].title + " (" + threads[i].poster + ")<br />");
}
//-->
</script>
The External Data Provider also gives alternative feeds in commonly used formats. These are useful if you have external readers or a script to read them already. These feeds are available in XML, RSS .91, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 so it should fit a wide variety of readers. The system defaults to RSS 2.0 so if you leave off the type, that is what you get. RSS 1.0 and 2.0 feeds will include HTML markup and attachments unless &nohtml=1 is added to the feed url. Many aggregates support HTML markup and so posts will appear close to how they would appear when viewed on the forum.

The URLS to access these feeds are:
XML - http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...l.php?type=xml
RSS - http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...l.php?type=rss
RSS 1.0 - http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/....php?type=rss1
RSS 2.0 - http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/....php?type=rss2

You can refine the listings by specifying forumids in the path. For multiple forums separate them with a comma. This will limit the feed to the specified forums only. (Below example uses xml as type, but it works with rss, rss2, and js too)
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/exter...rumids=1,2,3,4

Threads will be returned in descending order based on the date of their creation. Description information will be returned from the first post of the thread.

If &lastpost=1 is added to the feed URL, threads will be returned in descending order based on the date of the last post of the thread. Description information will be returned from the last post of the thread.

If vBulletin Options > External Data Provider > Enable Podcasting is enabled, the first attachment of the post will also be returned within an [DEF]<enclosure>[/DEF] tag. The enclosure tag is used within iTunes and other RSS aggregates to allow files to be downloaded from the feed.

That was what I was trying to point you to.
It describes that you can access a specific forums by modifying the url you use to access the feed.

Steve

[tobybird]

And here's a nifty little hack to somewhat accomplish the same...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133365