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#1 01-25-2008, 02:16 PM

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RSS Feeds on vbulletin

I am trying to set up feeds on vb 3.6.8 ..

I have tried to pull in google but it adds an image tag to the post.

Code:

<img alt="" height="1" width="1">

because it has

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&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot;&gt;

all through out its feed ...

When I use xxxx://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/sports I dont get any errors. When I use something like this xxxx://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=football+OR+colts+OR+manning&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt I get the error >

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 9

Would love to feed teh most applicable data instead of having to weed through it before feeding it. Is the RSS Feed feature really this limited?

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#2 09-24-2008, 06:23 PM

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

Any updated on this? I have the same issue.

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

I do not understand what you are trying to do? If you would explain it better I would be happy to help.

I mean are you trying to pull it in a little box? using a widget? What?

I was not liking none of the RSS feeders and all, so I just added my own using a script i found. You can check mine out. I only use it to pull in my blog in a certain forum. But it has options of what you pull in with it. I am using ticker style

Argue Crazy Blog

Check that out. But since vbulletin is so flexible I mena you can use anything to pull in rss feeds. But if you let me know little more be happier to help you. I do not understand why you are trying to filter stuff. Or do you mean your using it to post to your forums?

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#4 09-24-2008, 07:52 PM

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

I added a google rss feed to VB

"base jumping" - Google News

Then I have the body template as:

Code:

{feed:title}

{feed:description}

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Then I get this for the feed coming back:

Quote:

New York outlaws 'base jumping' - AFP
New York outlaws 'base jumping' - AFP

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=rQeENStXLXYJ&imgurl=afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5hlccP7o03gfGthHy5Tt4pmqTexew width=52 height=80 alt="" border=1>
AFP
<img alt="" height="1" width="1">
New York outlaws 'base jumping'
AFP - Sep 22, 2008
The law targets freelance practioners of a sport known as BASE jumping, which stands for Building, Antenna, Span or Earth. Climbers scale large objects, ...

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I would like to get my feeds like Yahoo displays which is:

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New York outlaws 'base jumping' (AFP via Yahoo! News)
New York outlaws 'base jumping' (AFP via Yahoo! News)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday outlawed extreme thrill seekers who dodge police to jump or hang from high buildings, his press office said.

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

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Originally Posted by mknutson

I added a google rss feed to VB

"base jumping" - Google News

Then I have the body template as:

Code:

{feed:title}

{feed:description}

More...

Then I get this for the feed coming back:

I would like to get my feeds like Yahoo displays which is:

Do you have the option checked to convert to bbcode?

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#6 09-25-2008, 12:16 AM

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

so I turned off the bbcode option, then I get this:

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New York outlaws 'base jumping' - AFP

<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td width=80 align=center valign=top><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0i-0&fd=R&url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_jYnkD8IsDX-UeGTrlJFh2GEosg&cid=1249432654&ei=dx3bSLyfOoX6lQTk 6rmcBA&usg=AFQjCNHoMBKpiqLlQysdDX5_kVdoYLYr3Q"><im g src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=rQeENStXLXYJ&imgurl=afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5hlccP7o03gfGthHy5Tt4pmqTexew width=52 height=80 alt="" border=1><br><font size=-2>AFP</font></a></font></td><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_jYnkD8IsDX-UeGTrlJFh2GEosg&cid=1249432654&ei=dx3bSLyfOoX6lQTk 6rmcBA&usg=AFQjCNHoMBKpiqLlQysdDX5_kVdoYLYr3Q">New York outlaws '<b>base jumping</b>'</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>AFP&nbsp;-</font> <nobr>Sep 22, 2008</nobr></font><br><font size=-1>The law targets freelance practioners of a sport known as <b>BASE jumping</b>, which stands for Building, Antenna, Span or Earth. Climbers scale large objects, <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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by Google BASE Jumping News

Here is the new body template I used:

Code:

{feed:title}

{feed:description}


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by Google BASE Jumping News

Now i had an issue in my forum that did not set html allowed. But when I enabled that, the html is displayed, but not the way I think it should. Here is my rss posting:
http://blincmagazine.com/forum/news-...html#post69268

here is the actual rss from google:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=...r=1&output=rss

So mine does not have the image nor does the link point to the correct place as in the feed..

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Hmm I see what your saying now its not picking up everything. Maybe its some vbulletin bug. You could always install some mod to do this. I know I seen a couple on vb.org

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

So I remove "allow BB code", and "Allow [img] code" and now the article prints like it should, but I am now worried about all the rest of my rss feeds by removing this.

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#9 09-27-2008, 10:42 AM

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Re: RSS Feeds on vbulletin

I posted this to VB forum as I think this is an RSS defect:

Issue with google Rss feed output - vBulletin Community Forum

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