RSS Feeds from other sites Onto My Site, Each as a Separate Article?

[Dave234]

I wish I knew enough about this stuff to understand what you just wrote......

A couple questions:

1. Where would I find my feed id?
2. Can you please go step by step (I mean like baby step by baby step) of what I need to do after clicking on admincp > Maintenance > Execute SQL Query? I see three boxes where I can type stuff. The top box says "Automatic Query". Beneath that it says "Manual Query". The one beneath that says "Results to Show Per Page" and it is default set at 20.

By the way, the RSS feed that is not working for me with pulling the video or images into my posts is: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml

For example, on this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19613295# it is only showing this in my forum post:

VIDEO: China holds world goldfish championships

More than 3,000 goldfish have been competing at the first International Goldfish Championships in China's Fujian Province.

More...

[Dave234]

Also, my RSS feeds don't seem to be updating..... I have to go into admincp RSS Feed Manager and click "Run" for the feeds, but the past couple times I tried it today it goes to one of those "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" screens (like that screen within the frame of the admincp, where my internet is working fine, but the message dispalys anyway).

This has happened quite a few times before, but eventually it would work like if I closed out of the screen and then reopened it. However, the last couple times I tried it it simply would not work.

I have the RSS feeds being updated every 30 minutes, so it really should be updating the website with new RSS feeds...........

Do you know why this might be happening?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Dave234

I wish I knew enough about this stuff to understand what you just wrote......

Well, you might want to consider just creating the feeds through the Manager, unless you have hundreds you want to change. Changing the database directly isn't really a good idea in general. You should be pretty safe only making changes ot the rssfeed table, but it's always a good idea to have a backup of your database.

A couple questions:

1. Where would I find my feed id?

It doesn't display directly, but it's part of the url when you edit a feed, so you can see it in the url when you mouse over the Edit link in some browsers, or else you can check the "Frame Info" (in FireFox, for instance). Or you can use a query, like:

SELECT title, rssfeedid FROM rssfeed

and it will display the titles and feed ids of all your feeds.

2. Can you please go step by step (I mean like baby step by baby step) of what I need to do after clicking on admincp > Maintenance > Execute SQL Query?

It's easy, you just enter your query into the "Manual Query" box and hit continue. If you're doing a query that changes the database it will warn you on the next screen and you'll have to hit continue again. That's it.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Dave234

Also, my RSS feeds don't seem to be updating.....

Is your forum busy? The feeds update throgh the Scheduled Tasks mechanism, and that only runs if your forum has traffic.

Do you know why this might be happening?

I don't know. I think that error probably means that the php script is ending in an error, but unfortunately that doesn't narrow it down very much. If you've been changing the feed "template" areas like we were talking about above, maybe there's an error in one of those or something (but that's just a wild guess).

[Dave234]

Well, you might want to consider just creating the feeds through the Manager, unless you have hundreds you want to change. Changing the database directly isn't really a good idea in general. You should be pretty safe only making changes ot the rssfeed table, but it's always a good idea to have a backup of your database.

I think, just to be safe, I will enter the rss feeds one at a time, in my RSS Manager, even though there are literally hundreds. I really don't want to mess with the database.

Is your forum busy? The feeds update throgh the Scheduled Tasks mechanism, and that only runs if your forum has traffic.

There is no one on my forum yet -- it's closed at the moment. I'm trying to get it up and running before I open it to the public.

I don't know. I think that error probably means that the php script is ending in an error, but unfortunately that doesn't narrow it down very much. If you've been changing the feed "template" areas like we were talking about above, maybe there's an error in one of those or something (but that's just a wild guess).

Maybe it's because I'm doing the rss feeds through yahoo pipes. I think I'm going to just have to enter them into the RSS Manager one by one, even though that is going to be literally hundreds of them. If it's gotta be done that way, it's gotta be done that way.

Would you be able to provide any insight on why the RSS feed that is not working for me with pulling the video or images into my posts?

Using the RSS feed, for example, of: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml

For example, on this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19613295# it is only showing this in my forum post:

VIDEO: China holds world goldfish championships

More than 3,000 goldfish have been competing at the first International Goldfish Championships in China's Fujian Province.

More...

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I don't know why it's STILL not working. I've unchecked the vast majority of the RSS feeds and then clicked "Run Scheduled Task Now", and it still comes to that "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Why would it be doing this?????

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This is happening EVERY time now.

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I don't know. I think that error probably means that the php script is ending in an error, but unfortunately that doesn't narrow it down very much. If you've been changing the feed "template" areas like we were talking about above, maybe there's an error in one of those or something (but that's just a wild guess).

I definitely haven't been doing that. I thought it might have something to do with yahoo pipes but even after I unchecked the ones with the yahoo pipes rss feeds, it still shows the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error....................... It used to just do this every once in a while, but now it is literally every time, so much so that I can't even run the rss feeds now. I really need this to work.

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Please, can someone help me with this?

[Dave234]

Anybody?

[kh99]

Do you have access to your web server error logs? You might be able to look there and see if there is any more information. Otherwise, I suppose it might be some problem with one feed so you might try disabling feeds to see if you can get any of them to work. Or if you don't have too many feeds defined you might try deleting them all and starting over.

[Dave234]

Could there be too many feeds, making it not work?

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I've asked vbulletin.com to assist, and they will help, but they say the following:

- Whether or not you have edited any files (if you have installed hacks or modified any of the vBulletin PHP files, we cannot offer any support until the original files are restored.)

Which makes me very nervous. I would much prefer to fix it on my own than have them mess with anything I've spent a lot of time already doing.

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To disable feeds, I would just need to uncheck all of the feeds in my RSS Manager?

[kh99]

Yeah, it's too much work for them to have to debug problems that may be caused by mods. Have you made edits to any of the vb files?

Yes, I meant just uncheck feeds in the manager to disable them.

One thing you might try: edit the file includes/cron/rssposter.php, and at the top near the error_reporting line, add this:

ini_set("display_errors", "1");

That may show the error when you run the scheduled task manually. (remove that line when you're done).

[Dave234]

I don't know, I really don't want to mess with anything in the ftp....... Can I do this in admincp?

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What could be wrong with it, if it was working before? Is there anything within the settings that say I can only have a maximum number of RSS feeds at one time?