[nodebb-plugin-rss] RSS Feed plugin

Lemius

Hi, this is a really nice plugin. I have a question or a little nag, though. Actually it's really specific so if there was a way I could just fix it for myself I'd be happy. (I'm way too novice to try to fork your code though.)

When you use the RSS plugin to pull in posts to your NodeBB from Steam community pages there is a peculiar problem with parsing images.

For an example:

 [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=790302505](http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=790302505)

That is what it posts instead of an image or even a clickable link to the image. I don't know why it's spitting that out. Steam looks like it uses BBcode but that's not what that is. That looks more like making a hyperlink on Reddit.

Is there anything I can do about this? I'd like it to just go ahead and parse the image. I would settle for a link. Thanks for the great plugin in any case though!

<baris>

The plugin turns html into markdown so that's why it appears as [](), that is a markdown link. Like this http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=790302505 It appears the file is 404.

Lemius

@baris Aah! I installed nodebb-plugin-markdown and it made that ugly spew transform into links. Well, there is my wish granted. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. It just wasn't clicking for me. And thanks again for the lovely plugin!

Leonardo Galani

Seems like it stopped to work with 1.4.0

 7/12 00:00 [24258] - [32minfo[39m: [plugin-rss] posting, http://blog.eviltester.com/feeds/posts/default - title: [object Object], published date: 2016-12-01T21:20:00Z
 7/12 00:00 [24258] - [31merror[39m: TypeError: str.replace is not a function
at Object.module.exports.utils.slugify (/home/forum/NodeBB/public/src/utils.js:89:14)
at async.waterfall.topicData (/home/forum/NodeBB/src/topics/create.js:38:33)
at fn (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:746:34)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1213:16
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:166:37
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:706:43
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:167:37
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1209:30
at /home/forum/NodeBB/src/database/mongo/hash.js:244:4
at handleCallback (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:96:12)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/collection.js:2482:14
at handleCallback (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:96:12)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:309:5
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:436:18
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
 TypeError: str.replace is not a function
at Object.module.exports.utils.slugify (/home/forum/NodeBB/public/src/utils.js:89:14)
at async.waterfall.topicData (/home/forum/NodeBB/src/topics/create.js:38:33)
at fn (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:746:34)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1213:16
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:166:37
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:706:43
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:167:37
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1209:30
at /home/forum/NodeBB/src/database/mongo/hash.js:244:4
at handleCallback (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:96:12)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/collection.js:2482:14
at handleCallback (/home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:96:12)
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:309:5
at /home/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:436:18
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

<baris>

Seems like the real issue is entry.title is an Object

[plugin-rss] posting, http://blog.eviltester.com/feeds/posts/default - title: [object Object], published date: 2016-12-01T21:20:00Z

<baris>

Published 1.1.4.

Added ability to test feeds before publishing
Fixed issue where some topic titles showed up as [Object object]
Added confirmation to feed removal.

<baris>

Published 1.1.5

Added support for github flavored markdown, can be enabled in settings page.

<baris>

Published 1.1.7.

Improved table rendering
Added cache buster to feed retrieval
Fixed issue with saving settings

ffmad

@baris hi, have you seen that problem?

Since I've updated to [email protected], and updated the RSS module, I can't add RSS feeds : 0_1506692901962_b5fb6407-e67a-48ad-9423-8ccaf70af60b-image.png

<baris>

I will take a look.

<baris>

Published 1.1.9 which is compatible with NodeBB 1.6.0+

ffmad

@baris thanks a lot!

niacin

Seems broke in v1.7.3. Cant see it in admin panel. Not sure where i should look to debug. @baris

<baris>

@niacin Works for me, make sure it is activated and you ran ./nodebb build, check server and browser logs if it is still not working.

Mikael Jenkler

@baris There are a lot of data put into the database when creating posts for every rss entry. What is the cleanup routine and is it possible to use this plugin as a viewer only and skip the creation on posts? I would like to have a plugin that merges multiple RSS feeds into one and sort it after date. Then add it to a widget as a joint news feed.

I guess the topic ID will go nuts after a while. The admin part is great but it would be nice with a skip add to post feat. Ore is there any other plugins out there that does this already???

The Worms

hi,

Is it possible to disable rss tag recovery ?

i'm lot error :

[31merror[39m:  Error: [[error:too-many-tags, 6]]

<baris>

Updated plugin to remove YQL and use rss-parse, also upgraded to use turndown since to-markdown is deprecated as well.

New version 1.3.0

<baris>

This plugin has been rewritten. 2.0.0

It will no longer post the contents of the rss feed, it will only post a topic with a link to the feed entry.

Also added a new widget that shows entries from a rss feed. If you want to keep the old functionality stay on 1.3.1

The Worms

I have a error with update :

2019-05-08T08:04:38.132Z [4567/32068] - warn: [deprecated] requiring core modules with `module.parent.require('rss-parser')` is deprecated. Please use `require.main.require("./src/<module_name>")` instead.
    at Object.<anonymous> (/srv/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-rss/feed.js:3:14)
2019-05-08T08:04:38.132Z [4567/32068] - error: Error: Cannot find module 'rss-parser'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:548:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:475:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/srv/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-rss/feed.js:3:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:653:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
2019-05-08T08:04:38.132Z [4567/32068] - warn: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-rss

<baris>

@The-Worms said in [nodebb-plugin-rss] RSS Feed plugin:

module.parent.require

That's weird, there is no module.parent.require in 2.0.0 of this plugin.

Did you run npm i after installing the plugin? Maybe try uninstalling and installing again.