Anyone have a hack for external RSS feeds (via a plug-in or file)?
I'm thinking you could either:
a) set up a daily process to pull RSS feeds from your favorite sites into local files and have WP display them
b) have WP display the RSS feeds straight-up
-=John
external RSS feeds (35 posts)
-
squishy
Posted 4 years ago # -
alexkingorg
Posted 4 years ago #Are you asking for an RSS aggregator?
-
Anonymous
Posted 4 years ago #i can make do with some way to use the feeds to generate content on some other pages of my site...
-
Posted 4 years ago #well i can certainly call the database and generate the headings in my site. but with other sites on other servers. There i need some way to parse RSS feed to generate HTML code.
-
Posted 4 years ago #Um, I believe that is what an RSS aggregator does. :)
You should look at some RSS aggregator scripts, those will certainly give you what you want much faster than waiting for WordPress to include this sort of functionality. -
When I ever will finish my work at the news aggregator used for one of my sites I could contribute the rss/rdf parser to WordPress. But it would be more healthy to not hold you breath on that, it could take at least until the beginning of next year... it's far at the end on my to-do-list :)
Bye, Mike -
Maybe take a look at Magpie RSS?
-
Doesn't support RSS 2.0 (Userland), as far as I could see. Although it shouldn't be too hard to implement that there.
-
Posted 4 years ago #It was Magpie that got me interested in asking if anyone had a hack for wp. I'll just use that or something like it.
-=John -
ThePimpress
Posted 4 years ago #zFeeder is easy.. Painless.. And very functional
-
LaughingLizard
Posted 4 years ago #Your post made me think of Jaykul's Newsfeed Parser script. Find it at http://jaykul.fragmentized.com/scripting/news_feed_parser.php and see it work at http://dinki.mine.nu/word/ I cheat and feed my two blogs RSS from each other :-P
-
Hah, now I've got other people linking to my stuff ... yay :-)
I should really move all those scripts and apps over to my new site though ... but I guess I'll leave them there (also) for now. -
jaykul: ur rss aggregator breaks on my installation on addition of any new hack using my-hacks.php. am i the only 1 facing this problem?
-
davidchait
Posted 4 years ago #I'm not using my-hacks.php, but I'm certainly using a number of hacks on www.chait.net, including a heavily-modded version of Jaykul's great-yet-simple aggregator (kudos!).
What problem are you running into?
I had problems at one point with getting blocks closed properly, mostly my own fault as I overhauled the code. Took me a long time, many browsers, and a few validator services, to finally uncover (and just scanning by eye at that!) the problem lines of my code.
=d -
idahocline
Posted 4 years ago #.I wrote a hack for this. You can find the source on my site.
idahocline.net
"b2psnRSS" is what you are looking for. It is based on Magpie RSS. -
Posted 4 years ago #If someone wants a heavily tweaked out version of Jaykul's aggregator, let me know -- it's what is providing the four feeds on the homepage of www.chait.net.
I'd have to go back and figure out everything I've changed -- though one useful enhancement was the ability to grab category entries for an item, and filter based on them (useful for a site like DealNews, which has the last-20 feed, but not a sub-feed for electronics -- so I grab last-20, and get the 4 most recent in category 'electronics'... pretty cool).
=d -
idaho, i have no idea on howto install ur aggregator
-
same here. its like magpie. can someone tell me a simpler version like the one from jaykul. 1 single file and 1 tag... as simple as that... give me a KISS version please :D.
-
rob
Posted 4 years ago #Idaho, I -think- what you have is exactly what I'm looking for...but I can't figure out how to install it.
-
Posted 4 years ago #Just to respond to a much earlier message in the thread, Magpie has no trouble parsing the RSS feeds produced by Wordpress, as they conform to the traditional title-link-description structure of RSS. Any of the examples of parsing RSS 0.9, or RSS 1.0 will work equally well with the RSS 2.0 that WP generates assuming this is a representative feed: http://wordpress.org/development/wp-rss2.php
As for installing it, I don't have a working install of Word Press, but I imagine taking the Magpie download, moving it to the Word Press install directory (e.g. 'mv magpierss-0.5.2 ~/public_html/wordpress/magpierss') should work. -
Posted 4 years ago #I ended up going with ZFeeder and hacked it to use the CSS from WordPress. It's still got a couple of issues, but you can see it at my WP blog. You can also download it from the blog under the dowloads sidebar.
-
Posted 4 years ago #Sushubh (and others) -
I've posted an accessible version of my current mods to the 'jaykul parser' on my website... feel free to grab it:
www.chait.net/my-plugins/xmlfeed.phps
I added the ability to parse categories within feed items, useful for taking a large feed and extracting just the relevant categorized articles (I use that for my filtering of dealnews..). I also rewrote the caching mechanism a little bit, added file locking around the file access, and cleaned up an issue or two with length limiting.
Enjoy. If you have any enhancements, please drop them my way. I'm maintaining a growing list of plugins (the refererLib stuff is the other one I've majorly modded, but also use the wp-hilite code, and some amazon-lookup code).
=d -
Posted 4 years ago #Anybody know what happened to the idahocline.net site? I've tried to download that plugin several times, but the IP won't resolve for me. Does anyone else know a secondary source?
-
I'm in the process of finishing it and then I will pack everything and send it back to you. It's getting better and better!
-
I finished packaging the mod (shown at http://bakshi.us/blog/feeds )
Download it here.
http://bakshi.us/blog/uploads/feeds.zip
If you got any questions post them here or email me. I'll try to fix it, but then again I don't have so much PHP/CSS knowledge so I would also like others to help if they can too. -
Posted 4 years ago #Sorry....I can't login to admin.php, anybody had the same problem?
-
on the zfeed thing?
-
PeterBlue
Posted 4 years ago #yeap..... I've try to useing the original zFeeder's config.php settings, now it works!
define("ZFURL","your URI here"); // URL to zFeeder directory installation
define("ZFADMINUSER","your admin name here"); // admin username
define("ZFADMINPASS","your pass here"); // crypted admin password
I found that zFeeder is useing md5 to check the password, so I change these to......
define("ZFURL",""); // URL to zFeeder directory installation
define("ZFADMINUSER",""); // admin username
define("ZFADMINPASS","d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"); // crypted admin password
then I can login to admin.php for no username & password.
at the zFeeder1.3 readme file, there are 2 important points for unix-like base's web hosting:
- give "write" and "execute" attributes to subdirectory: cache
(either with your FTP client or with CHMOD 0777)
attributes of all files in cache dir should be 0766 or 0666
Note: 0666, 0766 and 0777 attributes are considered a security risk
- give writeable attributes to config.php and subscriptions.opml
at last, thanks for your great job! :) -
No problem. Glad to be a help. I'll update the package with a new zfeeder and docs.
-
the zfeeder module templates have been updated to include images check http://bakshi.us/blog/feeds/ and http://bakshi.us/mobile .
I messed around alot with the CSS code. How do you like it? Is it a cheap and clever way to add RSS aggregation and mobile log integration onto your blog?
Topic Closed
This topic has been closed to new replies.