No new feeds since April
By Christopher caruk on Tuesday, 16 September 2014
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Hello,

I seem to be having trouble with the Feed importer in EasyBlog.

I have forcibly run the cron job and received the output:

Output from command curl -s "http://www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron"; ..

Email batch process finished. <br /><br /><br />0 blog posts fetched from Twitter

but:
1. The status page is not indicating that the cron was run
2. I am not downloading from Twitter and have not Twitter feed configured.
3. No new blog items are appearing

I've manually checked the RSS URL and there ARE new items in there.

I've tried to execute the script using the back end interface but the progress bar only goes a fraction of the way across (I have modified php to run for 120 seconds with a max input time of 60 seconds).

There are no errors in the php logs.

I've turned of Joomla caching (jotCache) and cleared the cache but this makes no difference.

I've updated easyBlog to the latest version.

I've run out of things to check. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Chris
Hello Christopher,

The cron url for importing feeds should be http://site.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed
Mark
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:21
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Hi Mark,

Yes I initially has it configured this way but this was not working either. When invoke that URL I get:

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Notice: Undefined variable: tbl in /home/complexas/htdocs/http://www.behaviouralconflict/components/com_easyblog/helpers/feeds.php on line 423

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/complexas/htdocs/http://www.behaviouralconflict/components/com_easyblog/helpers/feeds.php on line 423

Notice: Undefined variable: tbl in /home/complexas/htdocs/http://www.behaviouralconflict/components/com_easyblog/helpers/feeds.php on line 423

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/complexas/htdocs/http://www.behaviouralconflict/components/com_easyblog/helpers/feeds.php on line 423
No item migrated from feed "" ()
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So I thought perhaps the functionality had been combined with the cron URL noted above

What do you think is causing the problems noted in the notices?

Thanks
Chris
Christopher caruk
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:23
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Perhaps I am missing a php module?
Christopher caruk
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 19:04
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Hello Christopher,

Are you running on the latest version of EasyBlog? Is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue?
Mark
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 22:49
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Yes. I updated EasyBlog before getting in touch. Likewise the server itself it completely up to day.

I've configured ftp on the server for your use and am forwarding details by mail.
Christopher caruk
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:29
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Hello Christopher,

It looks like the external site is preventing you from accessing the main content when the option "Get full text from feed" is enabled. After disabling this, it works fine now
Mark
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:02
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Thanks Mark, Do you think that there will be a way to grab the full text for the article? In this case.. it's their own blog that they want to replicate.
Christopher caruk
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:30
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Hello Christopher,

The problem is actually the redirection that is being set by the site There's no way to get the actual results.
Mark
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:44
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Hi Mark,

Is this a tumblr thing? Something that they have done to prevent people from scraping?

If I understand you correctly... you are saying that the RSS includes the URL:

http://behavioural-conflict.tumblr.com/post/95746313025

which seems to redirect to:

http://behavioural-conflict.tumblr.com/post/95746313025/isis-whats-to-be-done

so easy blog cannot get to the content without handling the redirect. is that correct?

are you aware of any other feed readers that would work with easyBlog?

Or... perhaps we can look at this the other way around... If I get them to publish on EasyBlog can EasyBlog then push the content to tumblr?.

Chris
Christopher caruk
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:56
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Hello Christopher,

Yes, seems like Easyblog unable to get the redirect content. And we not sure which feed readers that can read it. As for your last question, we are sorry but Easyblog can't push the content to tumblr. Currently, we only have integration with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:36
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