| URLs not rendering when generating articles | Amardeep345 | 6/27/12 7:09 AM | Hello, I am currently testing using Google Currents. When i select an RSS feed with the feed options set to "Generate articles by crawling source URL" the article is generating but any URLs that are present in the article that has been crawled do no |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Cassie Doll | 6/27/12 12:43 PM | The only url that's crawled is the url of the article itself. So if your blog has an rss feed, each article in your feed typically has its own page. The option you selected tells producer to crawl that page for the article's title/body/media instead |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Amardeep345 | 6/28/12 7:52 AM | Hello, thanks so much for the reply. That makes sense. So the option i selected only pulls the text of the article rather than all the extra information such as acnor tags etc. I will create a new RSS feed that contains the whole article with relevan |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Cassie Doll | 6/28/12 10:50 AM | No problem! I don't believe rss has any limitations on the types of html you can include. Currents does strip some things, like iframes and styles that are invalid, but its a pretty minimal set. |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Amardeep345 | 6/29/12 3:31 AM | Thanks again for your help. I have created an Atom feed but it is not being picked up inside Currents. Am i doing something wrong? http://www.newscientist.com/data/projects/currents/testFeed2.xml |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Cassie Doll | 7/1/12 5:34 PM | What do you mean by 'picked up'? Does your producer edition have a section with that feed? Does that section not have any articles? |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Amardeep345 | 7/2/12 3:46 AM | Hello, In the preview on Google producer the article iin the feed is not displayed so i am wondering that there may be something wrong/missing with my feed. Is it ok? |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Cassie Doll | 7/3/12 4:11 PM | ah, i see the issue. the feed parsing is failing because your entries aren't associated with any urls. if you add something like: <link href="http://urlformyarticle" /> to each entry, your items should show up. i'll fix the real bug too, but it wil |
| Re: URLs not rendering when generating articles | Amardeep345 | 7/4/12 8:35 AM | Thanks so much for your help. I have managed to get my feed to work. Thanks again for all your help :) |