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Andrew Weaver

Posted: 29 May 2008 03:30 AM

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I’ve just updated the plugin (again). This *might* help with some characters getting converted to question marks.

FeedGrab download available here

Again, let me know of any problems.

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Dabbledoo

Posted: 29 May 2008 06:15 AM

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Wow - you’re on a roll! Fixed my character encoding problems! Thank you soooo much! This plugin is great.

-Doug

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Posted: 29 May 2008 06:35 AM

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Andrew -

In addition to using this on our existing EE sites, we have a WordPress blog that we’ve been wanting to transfer to EE. Would this (or your XMLGrab plugins be good methods for doing that? Or is there a different method you would recommend?

Thanks again,

Doug

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Andrew Weaver

Posted: 29 May 2008 07:23 AM

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Hi Doug,

Glad it’s working for you. Both have been problems for quite some time…

To migrate the data I’d suggest seeing if you can using the MT Import option first as this will handle user comments better. Failing that, either of the plugins should help.

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Dabbledoo

Posted: 29 May 2008 10:19 AM

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OK, thank you much.

-Doug

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Posted: 29 May 2008 02:23 PM

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Hey Andrew -

Sorry to keep bugging you. I just updated my version of the plugin so there is a status=”” parameter in the exp:feedgrab template tag. That way, I can feed in what I want the status to be. The reason I needed this specifically is because our default status is Draft (since we have a ton of writers and don’t want things published by accident), and we wanted items that are “grabbed” by FeedGrab to be posted to the site immediately.

I think this would probably be a worthwhile update to the plugin if you’re down with that. Obviously a very simple update to the plugin, but let me know if you just want my code.

Thanks,

Doug

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Andrew Weaver

Posted: 02 June 2008 01:42 PM

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Hi Doug,

That sounds a handy extension. If you could send through your code I’ll see if I can merge it into the next release.

Thanks, Andrew

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klick

Posted: 03 June 2008 12:39 AM

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hi andrew.

very nice plugin! exactly what i was looking for.
one issue though

i’m trying to import my friendfeed feed and can’t seem to grab the contents on a lower level.
that’s the structure (from their api):

entries[]
  id 
  title
  link
  published
  updated
  hidden
  user{}
        id - the user's FriendFeed UUID
        name - the user's full name
        nickname - the user's FriendFeed nickname, used in FriendFeed URLs
        profileUrl - the user's profile URL on FriendFeed
  service{} - the service from which the entry came
        id - the service's FriendFeed ID, e.g., "picasa"
        name - the service's official name, e.g., "Picasa Web Albums"
        iconUrl - the URL of the favicon for this service
        profileUrl - the user's profile URL on this service

 … 

it works well with »id«, »title«, »published« etc.
the bits i’m also interested in are »service name«, »user nickname« and so forth.

in the »go« template i tried »service/name« but no luck.

question now is how do i get them?
i’m pretty sure that’s an easy task but can’t see it.

thanks!

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Posted: 07 June 2008 03:08 AM

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mh … i looked through the whole friendfeed api documentation but couldn’t find any information on this. gonna build my own ff by importing the services myself. which certainly doesn’t makes it easier i guess

anyway. thanks for help …

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Dabbledoo

Posted: 09 June 2008 06:39 AM

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OK, quick question. We have 3 weblogs: A, B, and C. We are using FeedGrab to cross-post new weblog entries on the other weblogs within our same EE install. If I want to use FeedGrab to pull in new content from A onto B and C, how can I tell that the posts are unique? Right now, I can only grab unique content on ONE of our sites. Is there a value of “weblog” that can be put into the unique=”” parameter? This would allow me to make sure that posts have not been posted more than once on the SAME weblog, but would allow me to post the same thing on B and C if required. Any ideas?

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Doug

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Posted: 09 June 2008 12:51 PM

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I’m trying to use FeedGrab .7.6 for the first time, and I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_convert_encoding() in /home/.../plugins/pi.feedgrab.php on line 185

I’m running PHP Version 4.3.11 and EE 1.6.3.

Ideas?

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Andrew Weaver

Posted: 10 June 2008 03:21 AM

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Dabbledoo - 09 June 2008 06:39 AM
If I want to use FeedGrab to pull in new content from A onto B and C, how can I tell that the posts are unique? Right now, I can only grab unique content on ONE of our sites.

Hi Doug,

The plugin should actually do what you are trying to do. I’ll try and get a fix for you this week.

Andrew

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Posted: 10 June 2008 03:23 AM

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supersusie - 09 June 2008 12:51 PM
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_convert_encoding() in /home/.../plugins/pi.feedgrab.php on line 185

The plugin is trying to use a function without checking whether you have the correct php module installed.

I’ll try and get a fix for this to you this week.

Andrew

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chronistin

Posted: 11 June 2008 12:48 PM

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I love this plugin, it enables me to do what I’ve been looking for for a long time! It works perfectly for most of my feeds. Just 2 small problems:

- When I try to get my delicious tags as categories, only the first tag for each entry is imported. I copied the code from page 3 of this thread, changed only the feed address, the category group_id and the fields. Has something changed since then? I read the whole thread and the documentation, but could not find an answer.

- Fetching a blogger feed does not import the content field, the field has the text “array” instead.

Any hints? I haven’t looked very closely at RSS coding yet, so maybe I’m just missing something obvious.

(eta) One more question, is there a way to import flickr tags as categories? The rss source code looks like this:

<category term="tagnr1" scheme="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/" />
        <category term="tagnr2" scheme="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/" />
        <category term="tagnr3" scheme="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/" /> 

Whatever I try, I cannot get the tags to translate into categories…

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Dabbledoo

Posted: 12 June 2008 08:34 AM

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Hey Andrew -

Great work on this! Another (very small) thing that would be handy to add is a function that increases the post count for the author once the post is pulled over. The ‘exp_members’ table has a ‘total_entries’ field that is not getting updated. This is actually making it so I can’t use the “Filter by Author” plugin for that member. Not a huge deal, but I figured it can’t hurt to get this request out there.

Thanks!

Doug

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Posted: 18 June 2008 12:43 PM

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Hi Andrew. Any luck on that update?

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Justin (Hop Studios)

Posted: 01 July 2008 02:22 PM

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I modified our copy of the plugin to fix the charset error Travis mentions above (appx line 186):

if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding'))
{
  $encoded_title = mb_convert_encoding($this->post[ "title" ], strtoupper('UTF-8'), $source_encoding );
}
elseif(function_exists('iconv') AND ($iconvstr = @iconv($source_encoding, 'UTF-8', $this->post["title"])) !== FALSE)
{
  $encoded_title = $iconvstr;
}
else
{
  $encoded_title = utf8_encode($this->post["title"]);
} 

The logic is from core.regex.php.

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mrlee

Posted: 02 July 2008 04:10 PM

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I hate to sound like an idiot here but I’m not getting anything from this plugin.
The plugin is installed. I followed the tutorial:
created a new weblog, assigned the custom field groups in accordance to the XML nodes of the RSS feed.
Created a new template group with an index file and a go file. Double checked that the weblog ID is correct.
The go template just displays:

Fetching: http://www.joomlashack.com/index.php?option=com_rd_rss&id=2&Itemid=33

nothing else..

I’m using EE v 1.6.4 with FeedGrab (v.0.7.6)

Is this supposed to work with the above versions?

EDIT: After enabling debug, I see now that my error is also related to the mb_convert

I removed:

// Get unique url
            $source_encoding = ( isset( $this->RSS->source_encoding ) ? $this->RSS->source_encoding : 'UTF-8' );
            $encoded_title = mb_convert_encoding($this->post[ "title" ], strtoupper('UTF-8'), $source_encoding ); // Fixes warning on next line
            $this->post[ "url_title" ] = $REGX->create_url_title( $encoded_title );
            $sql = "SELECT count(*) AS count FROM exp_weblog_titles WHERE url_title = '".$DB->escape_str( $this->post[ "url_title" ] )."' AND weblog_id = '$this->feed_weblog_id'";
            $results = $DB->query($sql);
            if ($results->row['count'] > 0) {
                // Duplicate exists, add a counter on the end
                $sql = "SELECT count(*) AS count FROM exp_weblog_titles WHERE url_title LIKE '".$DB->escape_str( $this->post[ "url_title" ] )."%' AND weblog_id = '$this->feed_weblog_id'";
                $results = $DB->query($sql);
                $this->post[ "url_title" ] .= $results->row['count']+1;
            } 

to suppress the errors and it imported fine..

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