Lately, I am having a lot of problems important Yahoo Pipes RSS feeds into FeedAPI.

Almost no updates with CRON, and when manually refreshing any of my Pipes RSS feeds
e.g. this RSS feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=4e203c7a0de5d4476986c85747776c...

..either FeedAPI times out or gives the error "Can not refresh feed".

Peter

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petercasier’s picture

petercasier commented

This is still a problem. 50% of the manual refreshes time out by giving a blank screen....

Peter

tallsimon’s picture

tallsimon commented

very odd. are you having any problems with other feeds? does this feed have more data than the others?

petercasier’s picture

petercasier commented

All my Yahoo Pipes - feeds have very regular time-outs... I guess the problem is the time it takes for Yahoo Pipes to generate the feed. On a test site, I import some simple feeds, and that works fine.

The only work-around I have found is to patch common.inc to reset the famous semaphor after a certain timeout, and to run a CRON job every 10 minutes,
just to hit 1 out of 5 feedapi refreshes successfully...

None of the two are pretty solutions, but they are a working workaround, though...

Would be nice if FeedAPI had some more robust time-out handling...

Peter

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aron novak
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Do you have any info what's the fatal error what php throws? Maybe execution timeout?

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petercasier commented

Running on a shared host, so will check where the error logs are stored. Would not surprise me I get execution timeouts, as I get some with the search function too.