Kebberfegg: Tool for RSS Feeds - Pull in Relevant Content

Joe Ward · #1 05-04-2006, 11:49 AM

Generating Content Too Slow? Pull in an RSS Feed

Kebberfegg is a tool for identifying RSS feeds using keyword searches. RSS feeds are not only a great news source, but also a great source of fresh content for your forums and websites:

ResearchBuzz Tools: Kebberfegg -- Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator

Notes on vBSEO

Many forum admins use RSS feeds to populate their forums. This freshly added content combined with the vBSEO solution can help to give them additional pages of content for generating search engine referrals.

For Discussion

Have you ever tried pulling an RSS feed or other external content source (such as newsgroup content) into your forum? Did you gain any extra search engine traffic from this content?

Source:
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Michael · #2 05-04-2006, 01:39 PM

I have been using a script called CaRP RSS in the past in order to aggregate information from RSS feeds onto my archive pages, this proved quite popular with regards to indexing the archive at least. As search engines tended to assume that the content on the pages was being updated more frequently.

Sigma · #3 05-16-2006, 06:35 PM

Never managed to get carp work in a decent way. It pulls the feed without a problem but then i'm stuck. Right now I use articlebot, works flawless for me

bordelloguy · #4 05-30-2006, 10:19 PM

Carp is way too complicated. The best script of this nature is Feedchain .

There are many different versions of it, but since i had signed for their subscription I have access to all if them.

The main version requires to fill "title", "description", " feed addresses" , plus optional filters and replacers.

There is one version called 'news mixer' or something like that... it is the best.. the simpliest. You have to only insert your adsense ID and save it back to index.php.. to create new instance you just make a copy of index.php file and that's it. Script uses the file name and generates everything else. this is that "news mixer" and in the index page you will find a link to actual demo you can try.

Btw, they are testing some program that will allow to generate multiple pages from keyword list..

BamaStangGuy · #5 05-30-2006, 11:48 PM

I would rather my content be submitted by my members than through an rss feed

briansol · #6 05-31-2006, 12:18 AM

I use a feed from woot.com to populate my "deals" forum and keep it active every day. I asked permission from their webmaster and it was granted.

On the other hand, I asked craigslist if I could syndicate one of their categories into topics on my board, and they said no.

So, keep in mind the legal ramifications of using feeds. They are free to use and view for "personal use". Posting them on your site most of the time constitures "commercial use" and you could be getting your self into some legal troubles. So make sure you ask first, RSS later :P

Mike · #7 05-31-2006, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

I would rather my content be submitted by my members than through an rss feed

And so would my members. I tried this....once......everyone hated it.

We actually have a guy on our forums that likes posting news/rumors and he now has his own forum for it. Starts a new thread every week. Everyone loves that, as they do have to travel to various sites for anything, and it isn't an automated bot type submission.

sGroup · #8 06-17-2008, 06:14 PM

which RSS feeds out there allow you to get the actual content? and what is the code that we need to add to the admin?

briansol · #9 06-17-2008, 09:28 PM

This thread is 2 years old.

since then, vB now comes with an RSS feed poster, so none of this really applies

sGroup · #10 06-18-2008, 02:00 AM

OK - thanks for letting me know this is old news.

How can we get the actual content to display in the post? it seems like we get the snippet and a link for more sending our visitors to the source of teh news.... the whole idea is to keep them on our forum not to send them away...

have you used the function to actually build content and not just a one line snippet?

can someone advise which RSS feeds they use that allows for teh content to pass to the forum post... any lurl example of this in work on a site would help.

briansol · #11 06-18-2008, 02:56 AM

you can only get what the source offers. If they don't publish full content, there's nothing you can do to grab it with RSS alone.

you'd need to come with something custom that pulls the RSS, finds the link, uses the file_get_contents() function in php to read the page, and then print it.

RSS is meant for syndicating news, and making easy links to the source content. It is not designed to be a content thief.

sGroup · #12 06-18-2008, 08:17 AM

briansol - thank you for your reply.

Quote:

Originally Posted by briansol

you can only get what the source offers. If they don't publish full content, there's nothing you can do to grab it with RSS alone.

where can we find RSS feeds that publish full content? anyone?

Quote:

Originally Posted by briansol

you'd need to come with something custom that pulls the RSS, finds the link, uses the file_get_contents() function in php to read the page, and then print it.

not sure how to get the file_get_contents() function in php to read the page, and then print it... any help on that? anyone?

sGroup · #13 06-18-2008, 10:45 PM

anyone?

briansol · #14 06-19-2008, 01:26 AM

You can find full-content feeds all over the place... you'll have to do some searching for sites you like and see if they offer it. No one can find that for you.

As for the file_get_contents, all I can suggest is you read up over at php.net
PHP: file_get_contents - Manual

it's fairly easy to use... just need to find a good start param and an end param that WONT change.

i used this to make a simple copy of showtimes at my local theater from yahoo movies.

Code:

$url = 'http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/showtimes.html?'.$query;
$data = file_get_contents($url);

$l = strpos($data, '<!-- Start theater name table -->');
if (!$l) {
    $l = strpos($data, '<!-- Start of Main Page -->');
}
$l2 = strpos($data, '<!-- /start new page -->');
$data = substr($data, $l, $l2-$l);

the $data block now contains the html table that they render in between their comment tags.

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