[nodebb-plugin-rss] RSS Feed plugin

Chris

@julian Haha, he would if I could test it.

Doesn't seem to be working for me. I add the RSS feed and it seems to do an initial pull (I have it set for 1 minute) but doesn't continue looking (or at the very least, nothing new gets added).

Very strange how I delete the RSS feed, add it. It pulls all items and they show up fine. Duplicate appear to have stop showing up, but nothing new shows up either for me, it seems. Unfortuantely there's no verbose output when running nodebb dev so I can't see it trying to do anything either.

I'll keep messing around with it and see if it's something on my end I guess.

<baris>

Fixed a bug and published a new version(0.2.2). It might fix the issue where new posts aren't showing up.

Chris

@baris Was this just a moment ago? As part of my troubleshooting - I removed it and reinstalled it like 30 mins ago.

<baris>

Yeah I just fixed it 10 mins ago.

Chris

@baris I gave it an update and it's still not working. Is there any verbose output anywhere so I can try and give you more info?

<baris>

If there are any errors the plugin logs them to the console or the output.log file in your nodebb folder.

If you want to add more logging you can modify the plugin source to see what's going on.

For example if you want to see what the plugin pulls from google every minute you can add a console.log(entries); here.

Chris

@baris Instead of just removing and reinstalling from CP, went to install from git and getting this error:

error: Error: Cannot find module 'to-markdown'

I'm assuming my install is out of date?

<baris>

You need to run npm install to get the dependencies.

Chris

@baris I just did it all again, which resolved that error - but now I'm getting this one:

error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'applyCSRF' of undefined
at Object.module.init (/srv/forums/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-rss/index.js:28:60)

<baris>

The 0.2.2 version of the plugin is compatible with nodebb 0.6.0. It won't work with nodebb 0.5.x.

If you are using nodebb 0.5.x you need use the 0.1.22 version of the plugin, although that version doesn't have the fixes.

Chris

Ah, well that's a pickle. A few random plugins don't seem to be working with 0.6 and I just had some general issues with it so I went back to a stable build.

I'll try upgrading again.

<baris>

For the plugins that are not working you can either open issues on their github repos or make a thread in the NodeBB dev category. We updated most of the core plugins to be compatible with 0.6.0 but there plently of 3rd party plugins that are not yet updated.

Chris

@baris Updated and trashed broken plugins. Loads fine on 0.6x now - still doesn't bring automatically add new posts it finds in the RSS, though. When I delete the feed and re-add it it pulls everything like you'd expect. Same behaviour it seems.

<baris>

Can you provide a link to the rss feed you are using?

Chris

@baris Sure - You got pm.

<baris>

Published 0.2.3, added a new option that lets you specify the number of entries to pull per interval. This value is the num parameter in the google api string.

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=4&q=http://yourfeed.rss

It was previously hardcoded to 4, which would result in some entries to be skipped if you had more than 4 entries per interval.

Also keep in mind google caches the data from the feed so changes are not immediately pulled.

Chris

For anyone who may want to bypass the google cache, you can edit the index.js file and do the following. At line 228ish where it requests the feed, I edited it like so:

function getFeedByGoogle(feedUrl, callback) {
var rsscurtime = new Date().getTime() / 1000;
request('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&num=4&q=' + encodeURIComponent(feedUrl) + '?' + rsscurtime, function (err, response, body)

Essentially I just set rsscurtime to unix time, and tacked that on to the end of the URL set in the control panel. It works fine with my feed but of course YMMV.

Normando

@a_5mith excellent!!!! The tag used by rss api for youtube is "link", and because I have the youtube lite plugin, I can get those videos from youtube with minor modifications to the rss plugin.

Maybe this can be a NFR for this plugin

a_5mith

@Normando I'm not sure what you mean. But you're welcome to create an issue on the plugin and I'll look into it.

Normando

Sorry. NFR = New Feature Request