Plugin: FeedGrab

This plugin is great. It is 99% or what I needed. I am pulling my tweets into my blog as entries so people can possibly comment and I have a record of my daily life.

The biggest issue I have is actually related to the twitter feed itself and I was hoping that FeedGrab had some kind of workaround and or feature request.

title=”title” This parameter reads the title of the RSS feed and creates a new title for the entry, which is fine except that twitter places the entire tweet in the title and description. Is there a way to put a custom title in that field? ie title=”Tweeted on pubDate” so my titles make sense when the entries are created? Possibly allow for EE style date formatting.

The other minor issue I have is that the feed publishes the author automatically, ie ffpblog:tweet. Is there a way to get it to erase everything up to the first : since that seems to be how Twitter formats the feed?

I am currently using twitter timeline to display tweets, but it would be so much better to have them created as entries within the blog so I can capture them for posterity.

thanks.

I have the same problem as below - pulling in RSS from a twitter feed. Looks fine in CP. Doesn’t output anything. I tried adding site=”” parameter just in case but no luck. This is not a multisite setup.

sorry for cross post to “how to” 10 days and no response so.. I’ve got a Feedgrab issue where a twitter feedgrab import is not working as it should when output to weblog:entries I have the “FeedGrab” plugin pulling in data from twitter. it looks more or less like this:

{exp:feedgrab url="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/11111111.rss" 
weblog="21" 
title="title" 
date="pubDate" 
use="link|description" 
fields="twtlink|twtbody" 
unique="twtlink" }

twtlink and twtbody are custom fields within a field group dedicated to twitter feeds. twtbody is a text input field of 161 characters w text formatting set to none twtlink is a text input field of 256 characters w text formatting set to xhtml the import appears to succeed pulling in 20 or so items, generating a response in the following format: Fetching: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/111111.rss Checking: twitterusername: twitter post data Found new entry: twitterusername: twitter post data the data is visible and editable in the CP. new posts may be entered directly in the CP the issue comes when I try to use it in an entry form as follows:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="tweet_feed" orderby="date" limit="10" dynamic="off" show_future_entries="yes"}

{title}<br>
{twtbody}<br>
{twtlink}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

entries entered directly in the CP render fine. entries pulled in via FeedGrab - while they look fine on import and in the CP - do not render… any bright ideas as to what is happening and how to solve it? thanks!

code example? charset?

I have the same problem as below - pulling in RSS from a twitter feed. Looks fine in CP. Doesn’t output anything. I tried adding site=”” parameter just in case but no luck. This is not a multisite setup.

sorry for cross post to “how to” 10 days and no response so.. I’ve got a Feedgrab issue where a twitter feedgrab import is not working as it should when output to weblog:entries …….

Hi bafadam

Are you able to post your template code and the exact settings you made to the two weblogs?

I’ve tried inserting your changes into pi.feedgrab.php but I don’t think I’m quite there yet. Feedgrab was working fine and inserting entries but I can’t get them to associate themselves with their feeds.

I have made custom field in my posts weblog called ‘feed_id’ which is a relationship field pointing at the feeds weblog

I have:

{exp:feedgrab url="{resource_rss_url}" 
                          weblog="9" 
                          title="title" 
                          feed_id="{entry_id}" 
                          post_date="pubDate"
                          use="link|description" 
                          fields="post_url|post_description"}

…but I’m getting an SQL error

(Description: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘WHERE entry_id = 187’ at line 1 Query: UPDATE exp_weblog_data SET WHERE entry_id = 187)

Any help really appreciated!

{exp:feedgrab url="http://themancast.spookyouthouse.com/feed"
                  weblog="3"
                  title="title"
                  pubdate="pubdate"
                  use="link|description"
                  fields="feed_link|feed_description"
                  parent_weblog_id="2"}

I think you’re missing the “parent_weblog_id” parameter there, chief. I could export my weblog settings for you, but that’s a little more work than I think I need to do. Try the parent_weblog_id and let me know if that works for you.

Is parent_weblog_id equal to site_id? I’ve never heard of it before.

Is parent_weblog_id equal to site_id? I’ve never heard of it before.

He’s using the mod that I posted, not the standard. It was just an example on how you could relate one weblog to another via the code that was already posted.

Thanks for replying. Have added parent_weblog_id but I’m still getting the same error. Also noticed in my code I have this parameter | feed_id=”{entry_id}” | whereas you don’t. Thinking either my custom fields are wrong or something else I don’t know.

The mySQL error is in the ‘SET WHERE’ bit which I think happens here:

$sql = $DB->update_string('exp_weblog_data', $relDataSwap, 'entry_id = ' . $entry_id);

Hmm…

Is there a way to specify particular keywords, and have feedgrab only grab articles that include those keywords?

Thanks for a great plugin!

Is there any way to pull “username” out of the following code from an rss feed?

<myst:CreatedByID ObjectClass="User" Title="username">147777</myst:CreatedByID>

I’m trying to move a client’s blog from Myst to EE, and I’m having trouble pulling the blog entry’s author name out.

also, I’m having the exact same problem as comment #182: I get:

Checking: Title1 Checking: Title2 Checking: Title3

and so on, but no entries are being added.

Ok, this might be a clue. The entries that were getting checked are apparently in the system, but when I click the Edit tab, they don’t show up. Yet, when I view the template I set up to display the entries that get imported, they do show up. What’s up with that?

Ok, this might be a clue. The entries that were getting checked are apparently in the system, but when I click the Edit tab, they don’t show up. Yet, when I view the template I set up to display the entries that get imported, they do show up. What’s up with that?

wow… i have the COMPLETE opposite problem! i can edit them. but they dont show up in the template. it says they have been checked, but they dont show up. then… only the title will show up if i edit that particular entry. but nothing else.

im thinking, do i need my weblog prefrences set up any particular way? like does the particular weblog HAVE to have a default category that it post to?

thanks.

my particular problem was that I hadn’t assigned an author. I was trying to get the plugin to parse the author from the feed, but apparently that isn’t supported. The entries were showing up on the Control Panel home page, so I opened them from there and assigned an author.

My new problem is that I can’t get the categories to parse. They’re multiple word categories like Employment Verification, and they’re all inside tags like this:

<category>Employment Verification</category><category>Form I-9</category>

and so on. They won’t parse at all-is there another way to get categories?