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05 November 2025, 01:36
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Rob Alan
Snitz News Aggregator?
28 December 2005, 21:59
I did a quick search, and didnt see that anyone really suggested something like this yet...
Has anyone thought of creating a news aggregation 'bot' for Snitz Forums? It would go out to entered RSS feeds, download content, and post each new entry into the forum. Vbullitin already has something like this - called the RSS News Feed Hack. (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63798)<
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HuwR
29 December 2005, 05:25
Have you looked on SnitzBitz ?<
Rob Alan
29 December 2005, 12:53
Originally posted by HuwR Have you looked on SnitzBitz ?
I have indeed - more than a few times - and I couldnt find anything like this. There was a 'newsletter' MOD, but that's completely different from what Im talking about here.
Am I missing something there?<
Rasco
29 December 2005, 15:08
Don`t know exactly how it works, but maybe the RSS 2.0 Feed MOD by MarcelG could be extended to do what you want<
Rob Alan
29 December 2005, 15:12
Originally posted by Rasco Don`t know exactly how it works, but maybe the RSS 2.0 Feed MOD by MarcelG could be extended to do what you want
Negative ghostrider - thats for publishing a form into RSS form. What I'm looking to do does more or less the exact opposite. (takes an RSS feed and publishes it to the forum)<
Rob Alan
10 January 2006, 11:09
Does anyone have interest in this besides myself?<
MarkJH
10 January 2006, 12:26
I did but an interest was as far as things went, unfortunately.<
AnonJr
10 January 2006, 15:18
I've seen some JavaScript code floating around for something like that, but I've never actually tried to do it. I've also found some ActionScript for parsing XML files in Flash - something that could be put to use in making a Flash-based RSS reader.
Unfortunately I haven't had time to do anything with them yet, nor have I seen anybody else. Maybe some searches along these lines could help?<
maduko
22 January 2006, 16:41
Is that what Feedburner does?
Or do you mean the RSS feeds of many forums?<
MarcelG
23 January 2006, 01:52
Originally posted by Rob Alan Does anyone have interest in this besides myself?
No I don't think it is Marcel, he wants the individual items in the feeds to be created as topics in the forum<
MarcelG
23 January 2006, 08:01
Ah...ok. Now I understand.
Sounds a bit dangerous to me ; auto-importing content from an external source into the db.
I think my code cán be modified to do just that ; it already has the items, so with a INSERT statement one could achieve a lot.
Too dangerous for me though, so I won't be testing it! <
MarkJH
23 January 2006, 11:36
As long as you import content from well-known, trusted sites (BBC, Microsoft) it shouldn't really be a security risk, should it?<
MarcelG
24 January 2006, 02:34
Well, even though the chance that the risk will become reality is little, I'd like to keep it safe. Just as with safe sex, you can never be too carefull <
MarkJH
25 January 2006, 12:09
Haven't checked it out yet because you need to register but I wonder if this MaxWebPortal MOD would be any good?<
MarcelG
25 January 2006, 16:09
sounds promising....MWP isn't bad as far as I know, so I guess the mods will be of the same 'level'.<
maduko
31 January 2006, 17:11
Originally posted by HuwR ..he wants the individual items in the feeds to be created as topics in the forum
Is it just me or does this seem a little bassackwards?
Spewing forum content out on RSS is a wonderful thing. Sucking it into a forum seems redundant. I mean what is the point?
If you're trying to provide more content for your forum visitors why not just provide newsfeed links? Or display them in the header or footer of you forum with one of these scripts.<
Rob Alan
07 February 2006, 12:36
Originally posted by Rob Alan Does anyone have interest in this besides myself?
Is this what you're looking for ?
This is very close to what I had in mind...<
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