By sreejithk2000 on

I'm using Drupal 4.7.3 and my major purpose of the instalation is to use news aggregator. But I see that the aggregator module is not updating feeds from new Blogger beta (http://beta-blogger.com).

I digged in to the aggregator module until I found the problem which I think it is. The function aggregator_parse_feed is not fetching the link property for the individual posts. So the database insert query fails.

Since I'm not familiar with the code that reads the feed, I'm unable to fix this. Any thoughts about a fix will be welcomed.

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jorre’s picture

jorre commented

also looking for how to automatically updating a feed...

I see headlines from say one week ago when I manually pressed the update feed link. Don't know how to do it automatically?

Pakfriet.be

bobseekone’s picture

bobseekone commented

I found this same problem in V5. Here's how it was solved:

Turns out, by default, Blogspot advertises Atom feeds. Drupal will accept it, but it won't work properly. All post links have a URL that points to the very first post on Blogspot.

I tried running the feed thru Feedburner, and still doesn't work. However, Feedburner has a cool feature where it will convert a feed to a different format. I choose to convert it to RSS 2.0 and viola, it worked! Googling around let me see that there are some problems with Drupal and Atom feeds. To complete the test, I found out how to generate a RSS feed with Blogspot. Use your blogspot URL and add this on and it will work:

/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

The News Aggrigator now properly parses the feed since it is no longer an Atom feed but is RSS.

72dpi’s picture

72dpi commented

This is another link to help with this problem :
http://drupal.org/node/124895

Adding: /feeds/posts/default?alt=rss gets you the right link, but won't show the content details...

Sighs...