Plugin: FeedGrab

The unique=”title,date” parameter is actually the default behaviour. Possibly the feed’s title or timestamp changes and you get duplicates because of that.

I tend to find that a lot of RSS feeds have a unique field to check on, often called something like guid. I set up a custom field (called, say, feed_guid) and import the feed’s guid into it and use the parameter unique=”feed_guid”.

That might help…

Thanks Andrew, I did see your documentation on GUIDs. Was hoping the “title,date” stuff would work and I did explicitly invoke that parameter after my last post. It’s off to visit GUIDs then! 😊

I ran into duplicates as well when checking titles - seems it happens if the original title is too long and therefore is truncated by the plugin.

-Markus

Thanks ms, that is good to know. I will take it as another vote for using the GUID field. I sure hope the feeds I’m using have that functionality. :)

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it (Forgot I changed my default weblog field group)

Hey,

I’m also wondering about the offset parameter. My Flickr feed is 20 hours into the future.

Thanks for the plugin. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and it works very well. One feature request, though, could you add the ability to automatically update the last_entry_date in exp_weblogs? Thanks.

Andrew, your plugin rocks… but add me to the list of people who can’t get the “offset” parameter to work. My Twitter posts are two hours earlier than they should be, so I’ve tried offset=”2”, offset=”-2” and offset=”+2” – nothing seemed to happen for any of those. How should I be formatting this instead?

Two questions:

1. Is the offset parameter in minutes or hours? I’m having odd results, hard to explain, but it jumps a whole day even though I’ve only changed it by two hours or so, it seems to ignore the day of the month. Can it do negative time as wel?

2. All of a sudden i am getting this error when my feedgrab page runs.. it just started happening for no reason (that i can tell, on my end)

Fetching: http://www.mysite.com/boards/news.xml

Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.mysite.com/boards/news.xml (HTTP Error: connection failed (11) in /home/usr/public_html/dir/system/plugins/pi.feedgrab.php on line 1784

Any figure that sucker out? :\

Solved:

put an invalid value in the date=”” parameter, such as title or something else. I then used the offset parameter to adjust the time zones of the feeds to match my servers time zone (for my case, i have 7 feeds i want to all be on the servers time zone)

I still have the above error and have looked into it on my side. We had our php updated by thre are no settings that should be affecting this particular feed, so perhaps its on the other sites end.

Briggs, any chance you could post some of your code? I’m still having trouble with timestamps on FeedGrab’d data, and I can’t get the offset parameter to work at all.

Or Andrew, are you there? 😊

Regarding offset, the code that ended up working for me was

offset="-18000"

I had other problems, but at least that was working. 😉

Wow. So it’s in seconds?

I know the feeling ‘cuz I was the same way, “d’oh!!” I only use HH:MM in my templates so that’s why nothing was happening when I put “-2” or whatever.