[drupal-support] Feeds aren't updating

[Bob Doyle]

Hi Rob,

I have been struggling with similar problems in the Content Mangement 
Community news aggregator at http://www.cms-news.org.

Drupal 4.6 successfully aggregated most of the feeds. In three cases 
where it was not working, I found errors in the feed by running it 
through a validator.  One had an accented character in the data instead 
of an HTML entity - é.  Another Cold Fusion generated feed 
started with a <meta> tag before the <?xml> tag.

So I find if the feed is valid XML, Drupal aggregates it.

Try examining the feeds that don't work. Then notify your sources and 
get them to fix it.

Rob wrote:

> I have never been able to get feed updates to work on any sites. I 
> have tried dozens of crontab commands and they never do update. I 
> don't know if it is a bug in Drupal or what causes it.
>
> Because I have dozens of news feeds on some sites it is too time 
> consuming to manually do it but I did find a workaround of my own that 
> has worked so far. I downloaded a link checker program that 
> automatically checks links. I am using REL and there are other 
> similiar programs. I entered the update link to all of my news feed in 
> the list of links to be checked for each site like this
>
> http://yoursite.com/?q=admin/aggregator/update/26
>
> Several times a day I open the link checker software and it "checks" 
> all of the links for each site and that updates the news feeds. So far 
> that has been the only solution I have found on how to update news 
> feeds without doing each manually. It only takes a few seconds to 
> update the feeds using link checker software for each site.
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Dondley" <sdondley at dondley.com>
> To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:44 AM
> Subject: [drupal-support] Feeds aren't updating
>
>
> I'm having a very strange problem with my feeds.  I have 3 total.  The
> first one updates fine.  The other two don't update at all (one of
> them is Slashdot---http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf---which I know
> probably works).
>
> When I click "update items", I don't get any error.  But the "last
> update" and "next update" say "never" and zero items show.  Both urls
> are fully qualified.
>
> How is it that 1 feed can get updated fine while the others do not?
>
>
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>
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