Could not refresh feed error
unxposed - October 25, 2009 - 17:48
| Project: | FeedAPI |
| Version: | 6.x-1.9-beta2 |
| Component: | Code feedapi (core module) |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Here's my process:
> Create content
> Feed
> Form fields
Title: Twitter
Taxonomy: Twitter
Feed URL: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=htc (example feed)
(tick refresh on creation)
The rest I leave as default.
> Save
It creates the feed node, but I get an error 'could not refresh feed'.
If I attempt to refresh the feed I also get 'could not refresh feed'.
Clicking on 'Feed items' brings up 'No feed items found'
If I run cron I still get 'No feed items found'
I've tried this with a BBC feed also, and same thing happens.
#1
Can yout try out if you can use this feeds with the core aggregator module?
Maybe somehow the external http requests are restricted on the server.
#2
I'm experiencing the same issue - they were working with 1.5 with the Common Syndication parser, but when I upgraded to 1.9-beta2 (and ran the update script) all of the feeds started returning the error above.
#3
Oddly enough, as soon as I applied the patch from #606564: FeedAPI erase the link feed field. it started working again. Go figure.
#4
Hmm, didn't seem to do much for me... I'll try reverting to an earlier version see if that works.
#5
unxposed: did you upgrade from a previous version or was it a brand new installation?
#6
Hello, my site was running fine until I updated to Drupal 6.14, then I also updated to the latest feedapi because my feeds were not refreshing. however, i have tried everything recommended but my feeds are still not refreshing. i tried the set time limit patch to drupal core to no avail, so i had to reinstall drupal again. i also updated my databases. i know i am not the only one with this issue and am scared to imagine if this was with a live site.
#7
i also wanted to add that i am using php5 and my site is online but in maintenance mode, not on my own personal server...
#8
probably I'm running the biggest FeedAPI site with over 110 feeds. after upgrading to Drupal 6.14, it bacame a nightmare!!!
Cron runs once an hour without an issue and gives no error. But my feeds are not updated somehow for hours... though I can do manual refreshes...
I'm begining to think that instead of upgrading to a newer Drupal version I should live with my working site!
hope someone solves this matter.
#9
I can not even do manual refreshes. I am using yahoo pipes to put my feeds into one url. i was going to launch soon bu t now i am scared...
#10
#8: drupallogic: I strongly encourage you to start debugging on a code level on your site. There are quite a number of things that can go wrong in feed aggregation which means errors are hard to reproduce. You're in a great position to actually find out what's going on. Your help would be much appreciated!
One hunch: There was a change in how FeedAPI queues items for refresh introduced with 1.7 beta 1. There may be something faulty with the upgrade script. So your particular upgrade history matters, too.
In order to address this issue, we need to know exactly what fails on a code level. Thanks!
#11
not being a hard coder is my short coming... are there any modules or techniques i can use to debug? i really want to launch my site and need a long-term solution that will not break my site when I updgrade
#12
Hi Alex
actually I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do debugging. But if it will help I may share my Drupal site admin info and server login info. just let me know if you would wish to have a look at.
#13
Aron was right, the external http requests were restricted on my server. to check this i looked at my server's elefante scripts and saw an option to view outgoing connections. yahoo was blocked, and i am using yahoo pipes. i was able to do a manual refresh. going to see if my scheduled cron updates it on the hour overnight. will update you with my findings tomorrow...
#14
I am also using Yahoo Pipes! to aggregate over 600 sources. Since two days I got "Could not refresh feed".
But I get it randomly (about 50% of the time).
1/ I saw Aron's msg abt "the external http requests may be restricted on the server".. Apart from checking with the aggregator module (my rss imports fine with the standard aggregator module), how can I check that??
2/ Do know -for those using Yahoo Pipes! - that Yahoo Pipes! had a major hiccup in the past 48 hours, which was only resolved last night (Nov 5th after midnight EU time). There were intermediate denial of service, server timeouts and other weird things. Think that might also have contributed to the problem people see.
Peter
#15
to check outgoing connections you have to do it from your host's administration menu. For example, my host has a section to manage and administer outgoing connections and i found it there. you can ask your host where that section is in your control panel.
however, not all my feeds are updating either. my video feeds, being fed through yahoo pipes as well are not showing. i am grabbing youtube as well as yahoo video. before i upgraded to the latest beta feedapi i was seeing video well and using jwplayer to show my videos. now they are not refreshing.
i use yahoo pipes to combine several rss feeds in one url, unless feedapi has a module to do this that will yield better results. that may be beyond the scope of this forum.
i am curious how to get my video feeds working...
#16
#17
i have applied the patch above, and only my video feeds are not being parsed... i am using simplepie