How VB to RSS Grafitti to Facebook???

[rexall]

Sat 5 Jan 2013, 9:05 pm

Hi,

Noob, non-techie here. Please be nice.

New VB4.2. I want to publish new posts or recent posts or activity stream to my Facebook page via RSS Grafitti. But how do I set up the RSS feed in VB? In setting up the Facebook app, the first step is

Add new source: "example.com" or "example.com/rss.xml"

But where do I get or how to I creat that URL source? The RSS section in admincp seems to be for posting feeds FROM external INTO VB. I want to publish reent VB posts.

Appreciate your help, guys. Thanks.

Rex
Khon Kaen, Tailand

[CAG CheechDogg]

The url to your forums rss feed should look something like this:

PHP Code:

http://www.yoursite.com/yourforums/external.php?type=RSS2 


Add that url in the settings page of your graffiti source settings.

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Be aware though, facebook will be crawling your forums like crazy and can cause server overloads. I had to block facebook from crawling my forums and instead used twitter to post to facebook instead.

Keep an eye out for the amount of spiders and crawl critters on your site, you will get over 1000 guests which are mostly facebook spiders.

[rexall]

Thanks a million, CAG CheechDogg!

I don't want my entire form broadcast on Facebook, just, maybe the ten most recent posts or activity stream, or something like that. I really don't care about Facebook. However, changing times have finally forced me to get an account. I just want my Facebook page to support my forum, and to make it appear that there is something happening on my Facebook page.

1. How do I specify that?
2. Will what I am describing really place the kind of demands on my server that you are referring to?

Thanks again.

Rex
Khon Kaen, Thailand
rextutor@gmail.com

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CAG CheechDogg, one more question, if I can impose upon you, please. Thanks for the RSS URL, I am trying it out now in RSS Grafitti. I hope it works. How did you know this was the RSS URL? If you had not sent it to me, where would I have looked to find the info? Is this just a standard thing, it always ends with ....external.php?type=RSS2 ?

Thanks