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@dondley.com To: drupal-support@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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