Has anyone tried this RSS poster?

[Thomas_S]

Hey Leo,

would you mind putting information on how to format the incoming posts in the readme.md

So they don’t show up as “Something something” and then almost no body content?

Can’t seem to figure it out

[Ham (Roland)]

This was why I stopped using it. Made the posts look terrible and broken up.

[Thomas_S]

Did you learn how to format the posts through the RegEx? I have no idea - I asked developer but got not answer

[Ham (Roland)]

Nope. Never got a reply on it either.

[Thomas_S]

Have you found a work around though Zapier or IFTTT or API/Webhooks?

I used IFTTT > Google Alerts as RSS > Slack and they appear clean and perfectly but only because IFTTT lets you format. Trying to replicate this…

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@Thomas_S

Have you found a work around though Zapier or IFTTT or API/Webhooks?

There’s a guide on Zapier here:

Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks

[image] Want to use Discourse Webhooks to trigger a task via Zapier? Let’s get started! Zapier requires a trigger and an action. In this howto the trigger will be a Discourse Webhook and the action will be to send an email. Send an Email on any User event We will now set up a Zap to send email on any user event (i.e when a user is created, approved or updated). To trigger on a specific user event, see Trigger on a specific user event below. Create a Discourse Webhook Create a new Disco…

[Greg]

Now it works great! Thanks OP!!
I had some trouble getting it working. So I made some changes to the plugins code that is shared from my GitHub
https://github.com/gregruthenbeck/discourse-rss-poster
It’s only been tested against the latest beta version 2.3.0.beta9 +552

It now produces nicely formatted posts automatically (I’m using it to create posts from RSS feeds from StackOverflow, Reddit, and GoogleAlerts).

[Greg]

@Ham

This was why I stopped using it. Made the posts look terrible and broken up.

I think I’ve fixed this. Trouble was that the RSS Feed’s HTML was encoded and so Discourse displayed the escaped code, not the formatted post. Screenshot attached

[icaria36]

You may or may not find this plugin by @xrav3nz interesting:

GitHub - discourse/discourse-rss-polling

We have been using it during more than a year and works very well.

[Paid] Embedding: Allowing one RSS feed and one username per host

Status update. @xrav3nz developed this Discourse Wellfed plugin that I have been testing in the past two weeks. https://github.com/xrav3nz/discourse-wellfed Importing RSS feeds from different sources and into different categories works very well! You can define the frequency, and in theory you can add dozens of feeds without hogging your server. The only point pending is assigning the topics created to the right user. In fact, this seems to be a problem in Discourse and not in this plugin. Th…

[efeefe (Felipe Schmidt Fonseca)]

Hi Greg, I had the rss poster working in a discourse instance created last year. Recently I have migrated it to another instance, in a different URL. Apparently the plugin was still working, as it fetched rss entries as soon as I installed it. But I could not access its settings, and in fact the plugins page in the admin panel returned empty. Any hint of what it might be?

[UnitedFreedom (James)]

[PAID] RSS Feed Poster (raised to $300...please help!)

What would you like done? Would like to have plugin created to allow for an RSS feed to create a post. This would be very similar to what is already built into VBulletin. There are really two main requirements: An RSS feed gets assigned a username, and posts when updated. For instance, if pulling a feed from “Blog A”, it’ll be posted by user “User A”. A regex way for editing the title/post, so we can use regular expression to modify what is being posted. With this, you can for example…

Is not compatible with 3.1.0.beta3 (At the time of this post)

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I am using this instead, and it seems to be working fine

GitHub - discourse/discourse-rss-polling