Feedgrab - Working correctly - almost

Sorry, I am not following at all. Do you’ve got a link to your site? Which version and build of EE are you using? Also, by “feedgrab”, are you referring to Andrew Weaver’s plugin?

Im using ee 1.6.3 i think - have not done recent upgrades

by feedgrab i mean exactly Andrew Weavers plugin. Is there another feedgrab?

ok to make myself clear. - using feedgrab is a 2 sided equation…correct?

Side 1:

Use feed grab to get the contents of an rss feed and write in in to my ee weblog.

Side 2:

Use ee standard tags to write out the contents of the weblog.

my problem is that the 2nd part of the equation is not working

Hi Tony,

Which link has the http:// in it?

Andrew

the link returned by the rss feed.

here is my command

{exp:feedgrab url="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BurnThisRSS2" weblog="58" title="link" date="pubDate" use="title" fields="link"}

im just using a feedburners stanard feed for now. just to eliminate delicious as the problem. but the issue is the same

Thanks.

Just to check:

title=”link” - is trying to import the link of each RSS feed entry into the EE title field.

use=”title” field=”link” - is importing the feed entry’s title into the EE custiom field called “link”

I’d expect it to be:

title=”link” and use=”link” field=”link”

Are you taking the http:// out of the EE title field to get it working?

Andrew

Tony, if you entered an article via the regular publish page, does it work?

andrew - sorry. It was the other way around - i put link in title jsut to try a different approach. it didnt work

ingmar - the answer is yes

OK then, let me move this to the “Plugins” forum.

Thanks Ingmar…

I’m not sure what the problem is, to be honest. Is it possible to take a look at the site?

I’m about to call it a night but if you’d like me to take a look, can you PM me the details.

Thanks, Andrew

no its ok - it it is not an obvious problem it is probly something im not paying attention to.

ill have another go and report back

ok. I have upgraded to ee1.6.7 and the problem did not change.

Ok - to reiterate.

I have one weblog with one custom field called link. My feeb grab puts the rss”link” into the weblog”link” field.

When i run the feed grab it works. As it it does what it says it does. The weblog has 100 new entries each entry has a title that is populated with the rss title and a link populated by the rss link.

So for all intents and purposes this is no problem.

However when i use the weblog entries tag to output the contents of my weblog EE seems to think that the weblog is empty.

ONE MANUAL FIX: If I remove the text “http://” from the beginning of teh value stored in the weblog “link field” and then rerun the weblog output page, 1 entry appears.

Strangley however it is only the title of this entry that is written to the screen. beside it where the content of the link should be there is {link} which usually means that that field dosent exist in the weblog.

It does exist and is populated.

To me it seems that feed grab is putting hidden characters into the weblog fields.

anyone?

I also tried the example in the plugin to get andrews magnolia links. Same issue

um…help please?

nobody?