[nodebb-plugin-rss] RSS Feed plugin

phreaker

I like it so much

Maybe an option later to pull the feeds into one topic ? For some contents its can be better.

eva2000

Anyway to populate the RSS feed plugin from a text file ?

i.e. feed.txt containing

rssurl1
rssurl2
rssurl3

and import that in a database listing that can also be selected on the 'Enter the RSS feed URL' field ? Would make it easier if you are setting up alot of RSS feeds

Also need for a way to backup/export the existing RSS feed settings/url and forum association and import it into a different NodeBB instance ?

Guiri

@baris, does the user already need to exist in the DB? If I want to scrape a sub-reddit, I should manually create the RedditBot user, right?

<baris>

Yes the user that you put in the plugin page should be an existing user on the forum. You can create one from the users page manually.

Guiri

Awesome, it's working great. Some feeds have the HTML ascii and tags still, such as & and <td>. Would enabling the html-sanitizer plugin instead of the one in the Markdown plugin potentially fix that? I assume all feeds are piped through one of these.

julian

@Guiri If you are seeing html tags like < and > in your post content, then they were escaped in the feed itself (probably). If they were imported as-is, they would've been sanitized out by the markdown plugin.

That is, if you specifically see things like <tr><td>, then the post content probably reads <tr><td>, and is not detected as HTML, since it's actually just escaped text.

Bryant Young

@baris You stole this plugin directly from my mind! Was looking for exactly this.

Howevever, I gave this a spin today and it works up until the point of of the body content. All of the posts came in, they're titled correctly and attributed to the correct user, however, the content is simply : {posts.content}, if you click edit on the post, it becomes [object Object] (it's trying to parse it).

Is this a result of the feed's format, or something else?

Im on nodebb v0.4.3.

<baris>

@Bryant-Young published a new version can you try that one? v0.1.9.

Bryant Young

@baris Alright, updated to 0.1.9, restarted nodebb, I'll report back when the next interval goes through and pulls in new comments if there's further issues. On a sidenote does it show plugin version anywhere?

Bryant Young

@baris Just got some new content pulled in - worked great!

Now I just needa figure out how to do bulk deletions of old content! Thanks again for fixing that!

a_5mith

@Bryant-Young Click the first topic, then hold shift and click the last one, and it will tick all the ones in between a la Google Mail.

psychobunny

@a_5mith said:

@Bryant-Young Click the first topic, then hold shift and click the last one, and it will tick all the ones in between a la Google Mail.

Haha wow, you're a power user. So much so that even I didn't know we could do that. I guess kudos to @baris for building that in

<baris>

Updated with tags input and topic timestamp. v0.1.11

Silvina

Was playing around with this plugin, its working great with posts and all, yet i felt something was missing.

-URL Source (URL of the Original Content)

Title Prefix (RSS ?)

Tanner

An optional URL source at the end of the post would be nice.

Silvina

hi @baris

Recently i tried pulling this RSS feed, and it is failing, any idea why?

feed url: http://www.rssitfor.me/getrss?name=%40AmazonAppADay

running via nodebb dev,

the error shown is: error:
[[nodebb-plugin-rss:error]] Error pulling feed http://www.rssitfor.me/getrss?name=%40AmazonAppADay Cannot read property 'feed' of null

omar5687

Anyway to get the feed to post as read as to avoid spam in the unread tab?

julian

@Silvina Can you provide Baris with the full stack trace from that error?

Silvina

@julian I can probably do that. where can i find the full stack trace?
what ever that is shown on the ./nodebb dev console window?

julian

@Silvina said:

what ever that is shown on the ./nodebb dev console window?

Yep, that's it