Sorry for the slow response.

Try checking the parameters - the error checking in the plugin needs improving and it will often bail out with no output if there is a problem.

Should media:content@url be in the fields parameter?

Andrew—

Am loving your FeedGrab plugin.  It offers something I have been wanting in EE for a long time, the opportunity to shove a large number of records into the database all at once.  I am having some troubles getting it to work properly.

First, like others, I found v.7 broke the CP w/ Magpie 1.3.2 also installed.  This is definitively the problem because if I remove Magpie, no problem w/ CP; if I remove v.7, no problem.  I have gone back to v.6.2 for the time being.

Second and more vexing, I get this error when I run the ‘go’ template:

Part of the trouble might be that I am accessing a non-standard xml schema.  I am exporting a file out of Adobe InDesign as xml, then throwing that into a directory and directing FeedGrab there.  My hope is to have FeedGrab shove each item as a distinct record into the db.  This xml file reads okay through Mozilla, so it is parsing properly, but the tagging is non-standard.  I can tinker with the export if this is the problem.

My xml prologue as it exports looks like this:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8” standalone=“yes”?>

Do I need to declare something else in my prologue?  If so, what?

Must “title” must == “title,” in other words the tag in the xml document must be “title.”

Finally, I am also trying to get my head around your new category feature.  Are you saying that I just point that to a field in my xml and FeedGrab will auto build that as a category in my EE weblog?  Very slick, if so,

Anyway, if you can help me through my error message, I can play some more.

Is there a version of FeedGrab that works with EE v1.5.2?  I’ve installed 0.6.2 and 0.7 and can’t get past the plugin page in CP.

TIA

You might want to ask the author, I’d also suggest a more helpful title that mentions Feedgrab in it.  And what do you mean past the plugin page?  The plugin page should be giving you instructions for what to put in your templates.

Sorry.  I thought I added this to the Feedgrab thread.  My mistake.

When I install Feedgrab and go to the plugins page, I get a white screen.  This has been reported by others, so I was wondering if there was a version of the plugin that works with the current version of EE.

Merged for you. =)  I think the plugin still works, just the plugin screen is broken.  Might be worth a shot - you can view the documentation right in the plugin file, usually near the bottom.

Using the latest EE build (20070506), I have installed

Magpie RSS Parser (v.1.3.3)

and

FeedGrab (v.0.7.0)

and the plugin manager is working (no blank screen). Webspace is using PHP Version 4.3.xx.

While I don’t use FeedGrab right now, it seems that there are combinations in which the plugin manager does not break due to the installation of the FeedGrab plugin.

timj - 12 May 2007 01:55 PM

I am exporting a file out of Adobe InDesign as xml, then throwing that into a directory and directing FeedGrab there.  My hope is to have FeedGrab shove each item as a distinct record into the db.  This xml file reads okay through Mozilla, so it is parsing properly, but the tagging is non-standard.  I can tinker with the export if this is the problem.

The library I use to read the files will only accept RSS or ATOM formatted files. I have a version that will read generic XML files in development, but in the meantime you might need to tinker with the export.

timj - 12 May 2007 01:55 PM

Finally, I am also trying to get my head around your new category feature.  Are you saying that I just point that to a field in my xml and FeedGrab will auto build that as a category in my EE weblog?

There are 2 ways to handle categories. I’ve started to to try and improve the documentation - try here for FeedGrab documentation and here for Categories.

Here’s a new version that I think fixes the Control Panel problem. Let me know if there are still problems.

Edit: Please see the FeedGrab page to download current version

Version 0.7.3 does not work. Just “Fetching: http://www.the-fan.co.uk/feeds/” - that’s all…

Version 0.6.6 does work normal but can’t work with non english characters. Text looks like this: СѓСЂР°. СЏ богат / Форумб

Tried 0.7.3.  Can get to the plugin page with this version, but it’s not importing entries. Willing to do some testing; let me know how I can help.

Thanks for the reports of problems - your help is appreciated.

What versions of EE and PHP are you using? Did the previous v7 work for you?

carvingCode: do you just get the “Fetching http://...” message and nothing else, like Orliha?

Is anyone (but me) finding this version working?

Ta.

php 4.3.11
ee 1.5.1

and my other problem: i need to grab information from feeds with russian characters (cp1251 etc..). Now when i use feedgrab i see “СѓСЂР°. СЏ богат / Форумб” (it’s not russian ), can i do something to grab without encoding?

EE version 1.5.2 and PHP 4.4.6

I did not get the “fetching” message.

Love the new version. In Feedgrab’s entry on EE’s plugin manager, I see there’s an optional “offset” parameter. Is this currently working? If so, I’d love to know how to use it—for some reason, my del.icio.us links are getting stamped with an entry time six hours earlier than when I bookmarked them.

Thanks so much for a great plugin.

a have another one problem.
when i try to use field from feed named “feedburner:origLink” (with “:”) - it is empty when it grabbed to my blog…
and the same with “somethink url=....”. I try to get url as you tolked here: somethink@url. but it is empty too.

Hello Andrew,

I’m using FG 0.73 with EE 1.52. Everything seems to work fine for me, most of the time. The only problem I’m having is the duplicate insertion of some stories. This happens periodically. For a while only one entry is made, then a series of duplicate entries occur, and so on. I’m not sure what the problem is - would appreciate any clues as to where to look. Would the use of the unique=“title,date” parameter resolve this problem?

Other than that, thanks for a lovely plug-in. Really appreciate it.