Subj : web_feed_importer.js erroring out
To   : echicken
From : Kurisu
Date : Tue Oct 20 2020 05:00 pm

  Re: web_feed_importer.js erroring out
  By: echicken to Bob Roberts on Tue Oct 20 2020 04:09 pm

 >  BR> It would be fun if there was a modopts.ini option that would allow you
 >  BR> to specify the "from" name for each feed. The
 >  BR> autogenerated names get kinda ugly.
 >
 > Unfortunately the current configuration scheme doesn't allow for that sort
 > of thing. The script either uses the contents of the 'author' field for each
 > item as the 'from' address, or if that's empty/absent, uses 'Web Feed
 > Importer'.
 >
 > I'd really like to rewrite this script since there are a lot of things I'd
 > do better/differently now - but I made some poor choices when I wrote it, so
 > I'll need to be careful to avoid it creating a bunch of dupe messages.

To circumvent some of the nasty I spent much of last night making a custom RSS feed for my website to try to pull things a LITTLE better. It's one hell of a kludge and requires a very particular combination of Wordpress hack + constant polling to really make it "sane" in the script, but it at least allowed for things like article names (rather than just "Xadara" for everything) but again, you have to really force it to pull that info and do posts one-at-a-time... so it wound up being something I wasn't happy with.

Kind of makes it annoying to use on my site for now, but hey, it works great for a weather feed! Now if only I could find one that didn't update every 10 minutes, lol...

If it ever gets to being rewritten I'd LOVE to put it to its paces for importing content from a Wordpress site and formatting them reasonably well, since of course any updated script would wind up being more intricate, as the above request from Bob hints at.

Hell, if I could code worth a damn I'd try to improve it, but all the logic in that (obviously) eludes me when it comes to pulling X value to Y area.

What I'm getting at is for multi-faceted BBS sysops, like me, such is already a useful enough idea to start with and could mature quite a bit... but, priorities. I could always get off my ass and figure it out myself, right?

Bah, I'm just thinking out loud. Consider this a supportive post of "if you ever want to try to write a new version of it, I'd be willing to support as best I can with testing in my particular use cases which seem unique enough here."
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Kurisu Yamato
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