Is it possible to use any other variables in 'embed.imported_from'?

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Is it possible to use any other variables in embed.imported_from apart from %{link}?

I’d like to create a link using title and URL separately (in the default message the URL is displayed in full as a URL).

Thanks.

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When I delete topics created via RSS they always seem to rise from the dead fairly quickly. What should I do to prevent this? Thanks.

I’m going to reduce Customise/Embedding “Maximum number of posts to embed” still further in the hope that this helps.

Edit: I reduced that to 3 and deleted eight posts. All eight were simultaneously resurrected.

Maybe the answer is just not to delete a topic until it ceases to be available in the RSS feed.

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31 Oct 2020: Can’t reply as I’m talking to myself here so editing the post :slight_smile:

I now don’t think this is relevant to the RSS plugin.

I’d still like an answer to this :slight_smile:

The answer was to unlist the topics so that they wouldn’t be hoovered up from the RSS feed again.

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The path that is used is set by the value of the link attribute that is set for each feed item. I think I found the paths for the feed at rss.cnn.com by adding http://rss.cnn.com/ to my site’s Feed URL setting and then looking at the embed URLs of the topics that were created by it.

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I’m still interested in customising this message. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Browsing through the forum today I wondered again about this. The reason I ask is that some URLs are long and messy and it would good to “hide” them behind some more useful text in an HTML a tag.

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I’m still interested to hear about this :slight_smile: Thanks.

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No, the value that is supplied to the %{link} placeholder is a URL that’s passed to the placeholder in the Discourse code. Changing the name of the placeholder will not have an effect on that.

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Thanks. Could it be converted into a link along the lines of DuckDuckGo instead of https://duck.com/?

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This won’t work with the current code. The method that’s creating the link is:

  def self.imported_from_html(url)
    "\n<hr>\n<small>#{I18n.t('embed.imported_from', link: "<a href='#{url}'>#{url}</a>")}</small>\n"
  end

That will always create a link with the link’s URL set as the link text.

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Thanks again. Is that the sort of thing that can be easily overridden by a plugin? I’d like to change the whole string! I’ve never written a plugin but maybe in the long term…

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Also, the topic date seems to be import date rather than RSS feed item date. Is there any way to change this? It’s not a problem until a change is made to an RSS item (eg description) at source, at which point it becomes the latest post, out of order.

Edit: the answer to this was to change the category’s default sort order to created descending! It hasn’t changed on the main Categories page but I assume it will catch up within 24 hours or so.

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It’s been a while since I wrote a plugin. I believe that it would be possible to re-open the method in a plugin and customize it’s HTML output.

That is correct. The feed item date is not used when creating the topic.

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