[nodebb-plugin-rss] RSS Feed plugin

[psychobunny]

@amerilao nice, a Thai forum! any chance you'd be translating a language pack for Thai / Laos?

[quahfamili]

Hi there, after upgrading to 0.3.0, it seems like

The category field cannot be selected.

[baris]

Works for me on latest. Did you clear cache? Any errors in the browser console?

[quahfamili]

Tried on mobile firefox

Will check the browser error later

[quahfamili]

@baris I just tried with chrome, it did not show any error, i simply have no choice when it come to the selection.

[baris]

Do you see all the categories listed in the categories section?

[quahfamili]

yes i have categories.

@julian one interesting thing. I m unable to run the ~/admin/testing/categories

it simple stop working, nothing show in console. the browser just stop!

[julian]

@quahfamili Don't worry too much about that -- we took those tests out for now

[quahfamili]

thanks boss.

[quahfamili]

Hi,

For my instance, the categories unit test totally stop working. Once i check on the unit test, the admin page hungs. No error is seen on the console.

Need some help

[julian]

Just updated your instance again @quahfamili -- you shouldn't see those tests anymore :x

[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?