Hi,
I've followed all the instructions as given in the installation documentation. I've installed the Imagegrabber, Imagefield, Filefield, Imagecache modules. Installed UrlAbsolute, getID3 libraries. My hosting provider supports CURL on PHP.
I'm using the "book" content type to store the feed-items. I've defined the imagefield and enabled imagegrabber for the field. It doesn't seem to be grabbing the images.
It is creating an imagecache directory in sites/default/files directory. There doesn't seem to be any image files in it.
I'm also observing another wierd thing. I first removed all the feed items from the feed and refreshed it after I enabled imagegrabber. Now, it is only getting the feed items that have images in them (although without the images). The feed items that don't have any images in them are not being accessed anymore.
I've gone back and forth and for many hours now but am not able to figure out what else to try next. Any clues to what more I can try will very helpful. Thanks a lot.

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publicmind commented
Component: Code » Miscellaneous
Assigned: Unassigned » publicmind
Priority: Critical » Normal

This is unique. Can you post me some relevant details, so that I can help you better? First of all, I request all of you to post at least the following details before posting the support/bug request:

1) feed-url (so that I can try it at my website)
2) OS of the host provider
3) versions of all the modules involved (especially filefield and imagefield).

Hope to see your reply soon.

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publicmind commented

It will also be nice if you can post some screenshots of your following pages:

1) feed add page
2) status report page.

Regards,

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gathu1 commented

Hi,
Thanks a lot for the quick response. Here are the details.

feed-url: http://delicious.com/parentmusings
OS: Linux shared hosting on godaddy
PHP 5.2.8
CURL 7.15.5

FeedAPI 6.x-1.8
FeedAPI Imagegrabber 6.x-1.1-rc1
Imagefield 6.x-3.1
Filefield 6.x-3.1
getID3 6.x-1.2
ImageAPI 6.x-1.6
ImageCache 6.x-2.0-beta10

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gathu1 commented

Hi again,

What does the feed add page mean? did you mean, when adding the feed using the feedapi module?

Here is a cut and paste of what I'm seeing in the status report. Sorry, I couldn't get a screenshot. Thanks.

Drupal 6.10
Access to update.php Protected
Configuration file Protected
Cron maintenance tasks Last run 57 min 33 sec ago
You can run cron manually.
Database updates Up to date
Drupal core update status No update data available
No information is available about potential new releases for currently installed modules and themes. To check for updates, you may need to run cron or you can check manually. Please note that checking for available updates can take a long time, so please be patient.
FeedAPI SimplePie simplepie.inc file missing
Obtain the SimplePie package and copy simplepie.inc to the parser_simplepie directory.
File system Writable (public download method)
GD library bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
GD library bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
ImageAPI GD Memory Limit 64M
It is highly recommended that you set you PHP memory_limit to 96M to use ImageAPI GD. A 1600x1200 images consumes ~45M of memory when decompressed and there are instances where ImageAPI GD is operating on two decompressed images at once.
MySQL database 5.0.67
PHP 5.2.8
PHP memory limit 64M
PHP register globals Disabled
Unicode library PHP Mbstring Extension
Update notifications Enabled
Upload progress Not enabled
Your server is capable of displaying file upload progress, but does not have the required libraries. It is recommended to install the PECL uploadprogress library (preferred) or to install APC.
Web server Apache
cURL Library 7.15.5
getID3() 1.7.9-20090308

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publicmind commented

Hi,

Thanks for the info. As I see the URL you are using is not a feed url, it actually points to a page on delicious. On the bottom of that page, actually lies the feed url of the bookmarks made on that page. I hope that will be helpful. If not write back here!!

One more thing, I request you (all the readers) to go through the previous support requests before posting a new one. In some recent request I explained that FeedAPI ImageGrabber is activated once the feed has been completely refreshed by FeedAPI module. So, if you are not seeing any feed items, its probable that the feed is not even completing the FeedAPI stage. ImageGrabber can never interfere with the working of the FeedAPI. So, even if ImageGrabber is having some issue, you will still see all the feed items.

Therefore, you can do this, disable ImageGrabber and then try refreshing the feed. See, if it works. If it doesn't you might want to open a support request in FeedAPI forum. But, I guess you using the wrong Feed URL was the main problem.

Regards,

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gathu1 commented

Hi,
Thanks for the tips. I changed the url to the actual RSS feed url but the images are still not being grabbed.

You're right that the issue about feeds items not being updated is not a Imagegrabber issue. It's something related to the parameters that I use when I retrieve the items from del.icio.us.

But not sure, what I can do to get Imagegrabber working. Any help is appreciated.

Regards

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gathu1 commented

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that I tried my Imagegrabber installation with a completely different RSS feed on a different website and it is working now.
I have to figure out why it is not working with delicious now.
Thanks for all your help.

Regards,

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gathu1 commented

Hi,
another question. Looks like the Imagegrabber installation is working well but just not with the feeds from del.icio.us. Has this module been tested with del.icio.us feeds? Please let me know. Thanks and regards.

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gathu1 commented

Hi,
I'm sorry about the number of messages that I'm posting but I thought I'll give you an update again.
The latest update is that I was able to retrieve images through the delicious feed. But there are some links where there are a lot of images but imagegrabber didn't retrieve any image.

Examples of links where it DIDN'T retrieve images are as follows:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111895028&ps=cprs
http://www.edutopia.org/emotional-intelligence-missing-piece

Examples of links where it DID retrieved images successfully are as follows:
http://blog.klp.org.in/2009/08/karnataka-gets-special-focus-in-newly.html

Any ideas why it may not be retrieving the images? Thanks
With regards,

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publicmind commented

Hi,

I am happy that your settings for the FeedAPI finally worked out. Thanks for all these links, I will just give a try run on my system and will update you of the probable reasons why it might be happening.

Anyway, the next release is almost ready and I promise you that it will perform much more better and faster than the RC1 release. Look out for it.

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publicmind commented
Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Category: support » bug
Priority: Normal » Critical

Hi,

Thanks for reporting these URLs. I was able to grab images from the first URL but was unable to do so for the second URL. Although, even in the first URL I got the "file name too long" warning but still ImageGrabber grabbed an Image successfully. I am trying to resolve this error in my next release.

For the second URL, I came across a bug in the module which was why ImageGrabber was unable to pull images for the post. Specifically, it was unable to convert the relative urls to absolte urls. This will also be resolved in next release.

Thanks.

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publicmind commented

Hi,

Please do the following to make the current release work with the absolute url conversion:

change the following line no 442

$base = parse_url($original_url, PHP_URL_HOST);

to

$base = $original_url;

Thanks,

This issue has been resolved in the next release of imagegrabber.

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publicmind commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This will resolve your issue.

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publicmind commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Hi,

FeedAPI ImageGrabber v1.8 has been released. The new release fixes this issue. Please do post your comments about the new release , I am always looking for your feedback.

Thanks.

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droope123 commented

Hi there :)

I have failed to get imagegrabber to work with:

http://www.tu.tv/rss/categoriamusica/

Just wanted to point that out; I am using every latest module there is.

THis, on the other hand, works:

http://blog.klp.org.in/2009/08/karnataka-gets-special-focus-in-newly.html

If you require more info, i will be suscribing.

Cheers!
Droope