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We are using magpie to pull in an RSS feed.  Something happened with the feed and now we are getting these errors at the top of our page.

Is there a way to stop magpie from producing errors if there is a problem with an RSS feed?  We’d rather just have no data there then having errors that ruin the website experience.

We’re also not clear why these errors show up.  The RSS feed exists still, I can see it in my browser (firefox parses it) but I know something is different because I only see 1 post. They are looking into it, but my main concern is if this happens in the future, magpie knows how to handle errors.

Thanks!

Can you tell us which version/build of EE2.x you’re using? See EEWiki:// HowTo Determine My EE Version

How about a link to he RSS feed in question?

Sure thing:

Version: 2.1.3
Build: 20101220

Here is the RSS in question: http://blog.polk.com/blog/the-polk-blog/rss

This just started happening last night, previously it was fine.  The old RSS used to show all the entries, so we know something went wrong on their end, but not sure why magpie is freaking out even if the RSS is limited/malformed.

I am not aware of a way to disable such Magpie errors. That said, this should only be shown to Superadmins, is that correct?

You are right, it is only displaying for super admins, forgot about that.  So the errors are fine then, since normal users won’t see them and will just see a blank area of content (which is fine).

We’re trying to investigate to see if the RSS is not formed properly, that’s the only thing I can think would generate these errors.

Yes, that would make sense. Let us know what you find out, please.

Looks like one of the blog posts had some XML in it and that basically broke the feed causing magpie not to be able to read it.  They fixed the blog post, all is well now.

Thanks, glad to know the errors only show for admins too.

Glad to see that explains it. Post again in case there’s anything else, please 😊