Use mshots or browsershots to replace images

  • Resolved josjee

    (@josjee)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    I use this plugin to grab content from RSS and put these in posts. Many of these feeds do not have images or images are to small to present them on my theme’s homepage.

    My question/idea. Is it possible to use a plugin/functionality like mshots or browsershots to grab an image for a category in this plugin? In this way I give credits to the site as it shows the homepage of the site next to their post. For me I solve the problem not having correct images.

    I tried to do it but I think shortcode is not allowed/processed in ‘Category default images’?

    Thanks for your great plugin Allen!

    Jos Jaspers

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

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  • Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello
    If the RSS feed has small images there is nothing my plugin can do about it..it doesn’t go out a scrape a web site looking for a larger image). What is can do is use a default image for a category – so if you know a certain feed has small images, you can assign that feed to it’s own category and then use a default image for that category instead of the image in the feed.

    Does that help?

    Allen

    Thread Starter josjee

    (@josjee)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Allen,
    In understand that the plugin can do nothing about small or no image.

    What I mean is that plugins like I mentioned grab a screenshot of the homepage of site where the RSS feeds resides. This screenshot could then be used as the default image for the RSS entry/category.

    For an example see this site: http://PolitiekenTwitter.nl. The two screenshots in the ‘Laatste nieuws’ section are generated by mshots (homepage of the site where the RSS feed is from) and used as the featured/default image for the post. In this way we always have an image for a post and it does not matter if the RSS feed image is to smal or does not have one at all.

    It’s more like a suggestion for your plugin and perhaps there’s a way to easily add this functionality in the plugin.

    Hope this makes sense.

    Regards,
    Jos

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Sure, that makes sense…well, maybe if I have some time I’ll see what can do about this (it’s a tricky solution because a) you have to go out and scrape the site, b) take an image from it c) resize it, etc, etc.).

    Actually, now that I see it’s embedded in wordpress, I’ll give this a try.

    Thread Starter josjee

    (@josjee)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Great! I think this would make your plugin even more awesome 🙂
    I’m happy to test if you have created something.

    -Jos

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    well, unfortunately, I just looked into this and they are not supporting mshots anymore (it was originally only for sites on wordpress.org).

    Thread Starter josjee

    (@josjee)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Well, we auto generate the pictures with an URL like this

    http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parool.nl%2Fparool%2Fnl%2F5%2FPOLITIEK%2Farticle%2Fdetail%2F3480898%2F2013%2F07%2F24%2FVVD-Als-ambtenaren-wel-werken-op-Dag-van-de-Arbeid-scheelt-dat-3-miljoen.dhtml?w=280 (which is now on the homepage of politiekentwitter.nl). This works great since 3 years.

    I also saw this one today http://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-shots/ and this one http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-snap/screenshots/ But I think these all work on top of mshots.

    Plugin Author Allen

    (@amweiss98)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    ok..well, I’ll see what I can do…contact me at

    http://www.allenweiss.com/contact

    and I’ll email you a file (once I get the time to work this out) and you can try it. Also, let me know if you are using the shortcode or feed to post version of the plugin.

    Thread Starter josjee

    (@josjee)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Just sent in the form on your website.

    thanks,
    -Jos

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