By elmwood on
For some reason, I can't aggregate any RSS feeds from Feedburner. (Not Atom feeds, but RSS).
Here's an example of one feed that doesn't work, even though it looks like normal RSS XML.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGutter.xml
Add the feed (administer > aggregator > add feed), update it (administer > aggregator > update items) and ... "0 Items" is always the result. No error messages that I can see; just "No new syndicated content from [name of site]". Is this a Drupal bug, or am I the only one having this problem?
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Feedburner feeds need to
Feedburner feeds need to have these settings, which can be found under "Optimize".
Turn off SmartFeed and then activate Convert Feed Burner.
Unfortunately, if it isn't your feed you can't change it to work properly as far as I know.
That's the right way. You
That's the right way. You need only consume the feed burner feed again through feed burner and then go to optimize. So the feed burner feed that does not work becomes your feed and is controlled by you.
Yeah, they're not my feeds,
Yeah, they're not my feeds, so I can't do much with them.
An awkward work-around is to use blogsearch.google.com to "clean" an Atom or Feedburner feed.
Hopefully, with Drupal 4.7 ...
nope, as I said you use feed
nope, as I said you use feed burner to clean feed burner feeds. Try it. All you do is start an account then point the errant feed burner feed to your account then make a new feed from it. You then optimize your accounts version of that feed.
I do this a lot and I find that after I do it I get many people subscribing to my converted feed even though it is a only a copy of the origanla feed burner feed from another site.
Question from FeedBurner
Hi guys -
Rick Klau from FeedBurner here; I'm not sure I understand the issue... I run a couple Drupal sites and haven't noticed a problem with feeds run through FeedBurner (my own feed included) - can you give me a little detail about what specifically isn't working with feeds hosted by us?
Happy to dig in on this; since part of our value proposition is *reducing* the complexity of feed management, I'd like to think you don't need to repeatedly run feeds through us to get a version that Drupal will like. :)
--Rick
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Hi, Rick
Hi, Rick
If you want a good example of such a feed then try Moveabletypes which is delivered through feedburner but des not seem to work in Drupal 4.5.
Feedburner
Hey Rick,
All I know is that it seems that when SmartFeed is enabled, which is the default (?), that Drupal has problems getting any items from it. I have an aggregator on one of my sites and am having to use Feedburner to burn feeds that are already burned by Feedburner but have SmartFeed enabled.
I did some checking and this
I did some checking and this is in fact true. The SmartFeed has stopped the aggregator everytime.
Thanks!
OK, this likely means that we're sending a version of the feed that the Drupal aggregator can't parse properly, which is a simple fix on our end. Can someone who's got info on this shoot me an email at rickk@feedburner.com and I'll coordinate with our CTO on a deployment fix for our smartfeed service?
Thanks,
Rick
I can add the above feed
I can add the above feed just fine into today's HEAD (ie. the forthcoming Drupal 4.7). I doubt, however, that it'd work in Drupal 4.5, and I've just confirmed that it doesn't work in Drupal 4.6 (for reasons I don't care to investigate, really). Since Drupal 4.7 is so close to release, and this is a non-critical bugfix, your best bet to get the correct behavior is to look forward to upgrading.
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TheGutter.xml is actually
TheGutter.xml is actually Atom and not RSS - Drupal 4.6 doesn't support Atom, only (the forthcoming) 4.7 does (and thus, you should be able to parse that feed in Drupal 4.7b4 with no difficulty, but b5 is coming soon, so wait a week or so). As for 4.6, I've been able to add the Movable Type feed (per another comment herein) to Drupal 4.6 with no problem. Drupal 4.5, however, is just too old - we're no longer actively maintaining it, and I don't know of any dev that has an test copy setup somewhere. If you're still using 4.5, it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't work, but there's no way I'll be able to confirm or tell you more. Consider upgrading. Really!
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