dynamic news feeds...???

**Subway** · 12-18-2002, 08:57 AM

I just switched my ICQ on: 176701738

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 12-18-2002, 09:07 AM

i dont have ICQ

...do you have messenger..??

**Subway** · 12-18-2002, 09:18 AM

No. I have AIM somewhere, that's all.

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 12-18-2002, 09:24 AM

ok

...guess we'll have to do it the old fashioned way

with that scraper you wrote for CGChannel...how do i get it into MyHeadlines and how do i implement it into my site???

Ive got MyHeadlines all setup and running here: http://www.vfxtalk.com/news/html/

Cheers

**Subway** · 12-18-2002, 09:32 AM

Ok, click admin (after you logged in as an admin), then click the "submit" button NEW HEADLINE. There you need to enter the title, desctiption of the site and this URL: http://www.cgchannel.com/news/archive.jsp

Switch the scraper on and past the scraper template into the textfield.

Click PREVIEW and test if the scaper works. If it works, save the scraper.

Now you can see it in the admin list/folder structure, search your new source in the list and make it mandotary. Now everyone has this news feed as a standard feed. (Of course they can still select other feeds)

Fredi

PS: Import the newsisfree .imp file.

**dvdvault** · 12-18-2002, 09:41 AM

nice one!!!

how do we get the images that come with the news ??? also there are a few little pieces in the text that weasled their way in ...its code tags for URLs eg:

What else can we say!!<br><i>Quicktime.com</i>

Once i get the scrapers working perfectly...i can display them on my site and it will all be beautiful, the world will again be a glorious place

Cheers dude...hear from you soon...

**Subway** · 12-18-2002, 09:47 AM

The pictures will only show if they are in the description tag like in the CNN scraper. I hope that the next version will support them. You can already use the tag like in the cg channel scraper, but right now they are just used/replaced with the normal {dump} tag.

The feed looks a bit different in the admin preview, normaly the html tags for italics and bold ... will show ok in the user view.

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 12-18-2002, 09:58 AM

ok, cool...ill give it a go..and see what i can pull out!!..

thanks due for all your help thus far...ill leave you alone now, and go and play with my new toy

will it be coll to post to this thread again with more questions???

Cheers

**Subway** · 12-18-2002, 10:10 AM

Originally posted by dvdvault
will it be coll to post to this thread again with more questions???

Yes, questions and cool scrapers.

Fredi

**tonytryout** · 12-19-2002, 09:14 AM

no ASP version? If I have time and if I can follow the code, maybe I can do a ASP version....

**dvdvault** · 12-19-2002, 09:21 AM

Originally posted by Subway
Yes, questions and cool scrapers.

Fredi

how am i going to do a scraper WITH the images...???

cheers dude

**dvdvault** · 12-29-2002, 04:06 AM

hey subway...

just wondering how you went with the images in the scrapers..??

Is it going be hard..????

cheers dude

**Subway** · 12-30-2002, 09:21 AM

Originally posted by dvdvault
hey subway...

just wondering how you went with the images in the scrapers..??

Mike Agar is doing a new version with image support. Till then it's only possible if the image is in the headline text (Same table ...)

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 12-30-2002, 09:13 PM

have u got the inside word on when the new version will be avail..??

thanks dude!!

PS: have u ever used vBulletin...???

**Subway** · 12-31-2002, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by dvdvault
have u got the inside word on when the new version will be avail..??

I have no idea. I just know that it will support images in the scrapers and a template system.

Here's one of my previous chats with him:

---------
> Anyway, I have two features that would be cool in one of the next versions:
> - Something like: {img_1} for the scraper would be cool to embed headline
> pictures. I already used them in my scrapers, looks like they work the same
> as the {dump} tag at the moment.
> - A search for a source (on the user or admin subscription screen) to search
> the whole folder structure would be nice, too.

You are right inline with my thoughts on both of these! I had
identified the {image_0}, {image_1}, etc tags as an excelent expansion
of the scraper template system but I've not started working on it yet.
The search function has been started with the 4.1.2 release, the DB
schema was adjusted to allow for this and it should be available in an
upcoming release. I am considering a tie in with the Syndic8 XML-RPC
backend so that the search hits both the MyHeadlines DB and the Syndic8
site... If the source definition comes from the Syndic8 site then the
source will be added automatically to the MyHeadlines DB.

Lots of work to be done.

Cheers,
Mike
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Originally posted by dvdvault
PS: have u ever used vBulletin...???

Nope. I'm using Invision Board

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 01-03-2003, 03:42 AM

Hi Subway,

Well i have finally had some time to get some work done on my site

...

My only majoe hurdle now is integrating MyHeadlines into my page...

Have a look at this test page i just put together: http://www.vfxtalk.com/index_ekko.htm

How am i going to do this..???

CHeers dude!!!...thanks for all your help thus far...

also...my insideCG scraper is not working

...but we can get to that later

cheers again!!

**dvdvault** · 01-03-2003, 03:49 AM

hi again,

ive just been checking out your site, in the rogot news section....

How / what do you use for this area??? is it just looking at a section of your forum??

With your MyHeadlines page...i need exactly what you have done...but without the the GUI...ie: i dont want it there...and i dont want users to subscribe etc...i just want it as a news feed...

cheers again, again

hear from you soon

paul

**Subway** · 01-06-2003, 03:46 AM

Originally posted by dvdvault
ive just been checking out your site, in the rogot news section....

How / what do you use for this area??? is it just looking at a section of your forum??

I just feed them from the forums with the SSI hack.

For the myHeadlines implementation ... I just came back from my holidays, will look at it later.

Fredi

**dvdvault** · 01-06-2003, 04:07 AM

dude!!! your back!!! sweeet!!!...hope you had a top holiday!!

looking forward to hearing from you soon

Cheers

**Subway** · 01-06-2003, 04:18 AM

Originally posted by dvdvault
dude!!! your back!!! sweeet!!!...hope you had a top holiday!!

looking forward to hearing from you soon

Cheers

I was extremly lazy.

But I had a cool new year party.

About the insideCG scraper ... works fine for me, do you used this url: http://www.insidecg.com/news.php ???

Fredi

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