SimpleRss: Poorly formatted feed

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1

Based on the suggestions here I decided to use SimpleRSS but no matter
what RSS feed I try, I keep getting the error:

“Poorly formatted feed”

I have tried “well formatted” RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 feeds but to no
avail.

Can anyone please come to my rescue?

Thanks
Frank

2

I found the code (but not the reason) why I am getting the error:

The code is:

        raise  SimpleRSSError, "Poorly formatted feed" unless

@source =~ %r{<(channel|feed).?>.?</(channel|feed)>}mi

However, I have even tried the example slashdot.rdf but to no avail?

Any assistance is appreciated.

Frank

softwareengineer 99 [email protected] wrote: Based on the
suggestions here I decided to use SimpleRSS but no matter what RSS feed
I try, I keep getting the error:

“Poorly formatted feed”

I have tried “well formatted” RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 feeds but to no
avail.

Can anyone please come to my rescue?

Thanks
Frank

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Hello,

This is my code so far:

begin
@feeds = @category.feeds
for @feed in @feeds
rss = SimpleRSS.parse(@feed.url, true)
# … formatting code
end
rescue Exception => exc
flash[:notice] = “R: #{exc.message}”
end

Any suggestions / ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Frank

softwareengineer 99 [email protected] wrote: I found the
code (but not the reason) why I am getting the error:

The code is:

        raise  SimpleRSSError, "Poorly formatted feed" unless

@source =~ %r{<(channel|feed).?>.?</(channel|feed)>}mi

However, I have even tried the example slashdot.rdf but to no avail?

Any assistance is appreciated.

Frank

softwareengineer 99 [email protected] wrote: Based on the
suggestions here I decided to use SimpleRSS but no matter what RSS feed
I try, I keep getting the error:

“Poorly formatted feed”

I have tried “well formatted” RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 feeds but to no
avail.

Can anyone please come to my rescue?

Thanks
Frank

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softwareengineer 99 wrote:

Hello,

This is my code so far:

begin
@feeds = @category.feeds
for @feed in @feeds
rss = SimpleRSS.parse(@feed.url, true)
You’re trying to parse the url, not the feed. My code to do something
similar looks like:

rss = SimpleRSS.parse(rio(@feed.url).read, true)

because the rio library is too groovy not to use like that.