RhondaN

Does anyone know of an RSS Reader/Affregator that can export an RSS feed?

Here is what I need. I work in an office and am supposed to take an RSS feed that comes in and delete the non vital or articles then export it to an RSS file and send it to the staff to read since they all have RSS readers.

Does that make sense?

DjSap

Set up feedwordpress on a blog, aggregate the feed you take in and make sure to choose that all aggregated posts have to be moderated. Then moderate them and publish, give the staff the blogs rss feed.

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starpimps

try autoblogger pro
you can pull in the feed, view/modify it => export your feed to a blog

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Jace

what he said is the easiest and best solution, and free

RhondaN

One of the guys at the office already tried to do that with FeedWordPress, but one of the feeds we read won't load. It comes up with an error saying "This site does not syndicate". We don't want to re-publish articles on the web, we just want to send them to the staff as an rss feed. I could just send the rss file in an email or put the file onto the network drive.

Babaganoosh

Exactly right.

Remember, kids. Autoblogger is a completely unnecessary and overpriced piece of software.

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Jace

got an example of the feeds that won't work?

you never have to publish this to the web, but with wordpress and feedwordpress you can have rss feeds in less than 5 minutes using unlimited sources for your rss input

RhondaN

It was Google News of all places.

Jace

hm...wierd

I just ran google news through my feedwordpress and it worked perfectly

RhondaN

I'll have them try it again, but I saw it myself. We also don't need an on-line solution.

A reader that will run on my desktop would be great. I can't believe that out of all the hundreds of readers and aggregators, not one will export RSS (that I can find).

dissipate

See teh sig?

Jace

seriously, in the 2 work days you have had this thread up, you could have set up wordpress, installed feedwordpress, imported 100 feeds and had all the people that need them supplied with rss feeds

just because you are using wordpress doesn't mean it has to be online for the world, just password protect the directory and access it when you need....hit GO in feedwordpress to output the feeds to the blog and save the rss file from the wordpress blog

RhondaN

We tried feedwordpress again. Sometimes it works and sometimes it comes up with "This site does not syndicate". Looking at it it's the blogsearch rss feed that does that.

Where did you get two working days from? I posted this last night at midnight? Your post calling it two working days was made at noon making it 3 hours into the first work day.

just a punk

Perhaps you forgot to replace rss-functions.php in wp-includes directory.

FireFox, IE7.

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edgeprod

Thanks for the love!

Wheeeee! We just hit 10,000 licensed domains! Congrats to ABP and all of our customers!

Jace

oh shit, my bad, I thought I saw 11am on the first post, it was 11pm..haha

Z

ABP Rocks!

edgeprod

Hey Rhonda -- if you can't get it figured out, I'd be happy to write you something custom when I get the time. I wouldn't charge you, of course, we'd just have to wait until I've finished my other commitments.

edgeprod

No, you're wrong! And since you're a USER of ABP and ABPSA, I'd expect better from you, ya bastard!

I'd prefer to believe a non-ABPSA user's wisdom that "Autoblogger is a completely unnecessary and overpriced piece of software."

RhondaN

Not a problem. I do appreciate your help. What you are suggesting does seem like an easy solution, it just won't import 100% of the time. We don't see a patter either. Sometimes google will allow it and other times it won't. Could be keyword search, nubmber of times our IP address has made the search, I just don't know.

just a punk

Just wonder. Why don't you email to the authors of feedwordpress? I think they would be happy to fix the bug (if it really exists) or they just tell you how to make it working for your case.

P.S. I'm not sure you did everything well when you installed it. I'm using feedwordpress to import a shitload of various feed sources into my wordpress blogs and it works just fine.

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edgeprod

The way it detects feeds, if I'm not mistaken (at least, this is one of the ways ABP does it) is to check the source code for a link to the RSS file. Sometimes, you have to be VERY explicit as to what the feed URL is, if they don't list it in the source code.

Also, you can SOMETIMES import a "problem" feed into Feed Burner, and then pull THAT.

Barring ALL of that, make sure that A) the feed is valid, and B) you can actually SEE it in your browser.

just a punk

A) All feeds I'm using are valid enough to be imported by feedwordpress - because I'm using them for a rather long time without any problem.

B) I have serious doubts that Google was unable to make their feeds in the proper format according to the RSS/XML specs.

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edgeprod

I completely missed where Rhonda said they were Google feeds, I apologize. I agree with you -- Google feeds are highly likely to be valid. Something is probably fucked up with the server IMPORTING them, unless Google is throttling the connection.

RhondaN

Here is the error message I'm getting in feedwordpress when I run the update command:

Error: I don't syndicate (http)://news(.)google(.)com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22new+york+restaurants%22 &ie=UTF-8&output=rss

I just used a sample search term like "New York Restaurants". I can plug that exact same url into any other RSS reader and it works just fine.

I put the parantheses around parts of the link so this system wouldn't turn it into a link.

edgeprod

Is the space after ie= supposed to be there?

RhondaN

No, that got added in somehow during my cut and paste. sorry.

just a punk

You're doing something wrong! I've just successfully imported your URL http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...F-8&output=rss into my wordpress blog via feedwordpress (click the screenshot below to enlarge).

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just a punk

I really have no clue on what your problem is, but it's definitely not related to wordpress, feedwordpress and geegle feed format. Something wrong on your end (old or improperly installed scripts I guess)

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just a punk

Is it possible that some space symbol got added to the URL in somehow during your cut and paste to feedwordpress form?

BTW, if you think you need some help with it - let me know and I'll do a proper installation of wordpress/feedwordpress on your server (email: admin [at] fhgstore.com, ICQ: 166-924-423). Also if there is a problem with accessing google feeds from your server, I could write you a free PHP script which will download the feed from google BEFORE to send it to feedwordpress (I don't charge for 5-minute tasks )

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edgeprod

If she's pulling Geegle, THAT's the problem.

BSleazy

I have feedwordpress importing google news rss feeds all day every day...wtf is your problem?

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just a punk

Just a typo, and that was predictable because it's 5:24AM here but I'm still working...

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Babaganoosh

There's a sucker born every minute, huh?

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DjSap

Try to parse the feed through feedburner is feedwordpress can't read it.

Or if you want, hit me up on icq 66871495 and I'll help you directly.

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edgeprod

I wouldn't call our satisfied customers (three of which are already in this thread) "suckers," no, but it shows your character, that you have. I can't imagine you've seen even a cursory feature list of ABPSA, so here's the main page, and the changelog:

http://abpsa.com/
http://abpsa.com/changelog/

Sounds like sour grapes to me, or you really ARE that clueless, especially considering I suggested feedwordpress for what THIS user is trying to do, since it doesn't involve any of the advanced features ABPSA provides, the *least* of which is RSS syndication.

If you're really that dense, I'll just treat you like the troll you are, but I'll assume that it's just an act.

edgeprod

Correction: I just noticed there are FIVE Autoblogger Pro customers in this thread, that I *know* of.

If you're THAT sad that the "other" product just doesn't cut it anymore (and, in fact, wasn't even nominated for an XBiz Award, as Autoblogger Pro was), then you can just spew some more. *shrug*

RhondaN

Thanks for all the help. Now that I know the problem is on my end I started digging deeper. Before we were manually adding a link to be syndicated. I deleted those links and used the "Syndicate a new site" link box and it works now.

Thanks. I would have never known the problem was on my end without everyone's help.

I ran the update feed program and it pulled us several articles and put them into drafts.

Now I'm having another problem. Where are the drafts stored? I can't find a link to them and I even checked the WordPress support forum. Found a couple of postings with people asking the same question but no answers.

BSleazy

Autoblogger pro does have way more features than the simple little feedwordpress plugin. It all depends on your needs.

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studiocritic

color me the number six abp and abpsa customer.

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edgeprod

They aren't in Manage -> Drafts?

Yeah, I don't bother much with Baba anymore. It's just a troll-post, usually, and in most cases, Baba is talking about the VERY old version of ABP, not ABPSA, which is the control-panel version.

Well, thanks, that's a pretty solid owning. And I'd definitely say -- you aren't a "sucker," as implied.

Babaganoosh

My character? What does not liking autoblogger have to do with my character? Yes, I believe that ANYONE who has purchased your software is a sucker. Autoblogger is unnecessary and a waste of money. The only people who are clueless in the equation are your customers. You and I both know that your script is a waste.

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Babaganoosh

sucker!

I understand the shame in realizing that you just pissed away a few hundred bucks. I wouldn't want to admit it either.

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edgeprod

Babaganoosh

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edgeprod

SIX -- count 'em, SIX customers in this thread, and you come in for NO other reason than to slam ABPSA, a product I doubt you've ever even *used* to have ANY idea what you're talking about. That's the ULTIMATE in jealousy, and it's pretty transparent. You'd just have to look for your other ABP posts to laugh more.

I'm out, you're just a troll -- but a funny troll, which is the best kind! All laughs, no stress!

Babaganoosh

Tell me, what am I jealous of? A piece of software that is completely unnecessary? Anyone can do almost everything autoblogger does in about a minute. All it takes is a little motivation and a little knowledge. The majority of your victims or "customers" as you like to call them have the idea that they can just toss up a bunch of sponsor feeds on their sites and make a fortune. Unfortunately that isn't the way things work. Search engines DO pay attention to a little thing called "unique content."

The only reasons people buy autoblogger is to:
a: Steal someone else's blog entries.
b: Use affiliate feeds to create a network of blogs with no unique content.

Those are the only two areas that autoblogger really shines and both practices are a massive waste of time and money. If they are buying autoblogger for any other reason, they are suckers. Everything else can be done with free plugins and/or a little technical savvy. A single blog with unique content will slaughter an entire network of blogs fed by sponsor feeds.

That's the last thing I will say on the subject. By steering other webmasters away from your product, I am effectively helping my competition. If my competition wants to waste their money, it's foolish on my part to try to stop them.

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