[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

[libertate]

For two days the system worked fine.

Today it downloaded 3,000+ articles from one of the RSS feeds. OUCH! Talk about serious bandwidth sucking!

Can we limit the quantities as to how many to post?

[Cebby]

No problems with install. Great Hack!

*clicks install*

EDIT: OK, one problem - the ["] quote and ['] apostrophe garbage generated is a PITA, but other than that, great for my use. Any fixes for this yet?

[MrDiaz]

hi, the hack is amazing but I have a question.

When the bot post an article and I reply to it, my post appears first. Why so?

[Scrolls]

i am having trouble getting the RSS feeds to update...and how do i set a bot to post threads in the forum of my choice? can someone please help with this, i will gladly give someone all the passwords to the proper areas of my admincp and server info so they could do this right quick (i have the news feed sources, i will provide the link and everything needed!)

[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!!!

[michaelsilvia]

You are the man Zero! Is there anything you can't do?

Mike

[Kwak]

Is this the only RSS Feed hack available for v3.5.4?

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.

[kall]

Originally Posted by Kwak

Is this the only RSS Feed hack available for v3.5.4?


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.

What does it really matter, if you haven't tried it, why search for alternatives?

I use this Mod, and when you add in my Users can Post HTML Mod, it's perfect.

[Kwak]

The coder for this hack is away from vBulletin.org for awhile, leaving users hanging with questions and/or problems so I'm a little hesitant to install it.
But if all users had success installing and working with this hack, it would be okay then.

But if there are no alternative and not will be one for a long time, I might as well uninstall the old Articlebot hack and try this one out.

[michaelsilvia]

I use this Mod, and when you add in my Users can Post HTML Mod, it's perfect.

What are some RSS feeds you are using that us HTML? I'd be curious to see.

Mike