Feedapi 5x-1.2 installed without any problem on my Drupal 5.7. It created 2 new content types, each with their admin section. I used the Common (whatever) aggregator, esp. meant for PHP 5. I inserted various (working, widely used) RSS sources in a Feedapi Node, but every time, after a rather long pause (say, 30 seconds or so), I get a red-bordered error message on top of my input form, saying "Could not retrieve title from feed". This happened with all RSS sources I tried (some 10).
Is there any hint for a solution? I would very much dislike to discard Feedapi, because I have the feeling it is more or less the only professional level RSS environment for Drupal. But, of course, it should work...

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Just adding some information. The "Could not retrieve title from feed" error occurred when I leave the title blank. According to the help info, this is OK, because the title is, then, taken from the feed. Apparently, it is not.

When I do fill in a title, the process does continue, and I get a green "Feed created" message. However, there are no items in it :-(((, it's empty. I don't mind so much having to fill in the title, but I would like to have a wee bit of contents in my feed :-)

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And more bad news. I edited the Feed Node, but now the feed url had gone, the field was empty. I filled it in again, saved, wait 20 seconds, and the green frame says: "Feed updated" (or whatever it is in English). But there are still no feed items. I once again go into edit, and lo and behold: the feed url is gone again... The other things are still there, such as the title which I filled in. Strange, no??

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Title: "Could not retrieve title from feed" x 10 » Could not retrieve title from feed

FeedAPI lacks proper error handling. You should try other parsers.

modul’s picture

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I would gladly settle for poor error handling if the thing itself works :-) . But on a serious note: which other parsers? Leecher is dead, the core Aggregator is not at all how I picture a news aggregator. The Aggregation contributed module had a serious security flaw, it seems. Which other parsers?? And it should be something for 5.x, because Drupal 6.x is out of the question for me until CCK and Views have at least a 6 months' record of reliability - but they are still in the beta or Release Candidate x period. So I must stay with Drupal 5, also as far as RSS integration is concerned. I'd be glad to anything which really works, with a good set of features. Any suggestions? Or better still: how do I get Feedapi to work?

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Currently there are three alternative parsers for FeedAPI; parser_simplepie, parser_common_syndication and parser_zend_feed (http://drupal.org/project/zend_feed).

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I am having the same problem with 6.x version, using Simple Pie & Common Syndication both singly and in tandem.

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Aron Novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Well, may i ask for executing FeedAPI's automated test suite?
It's important to know the result.

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which theme are you using? try with the standard theme (garland?) and see if the problem still exists. i had a problem with a custom zen theme...

also, if you are on a server that has caching, make sure to give time for the changes to take effect. i was getting a GHOST block that showed up in the blocks section that i could not name...

check your database with mysql and see if any of the tables are messed up....

also, check the docs and just turn on the bare min of modules that it suggests....

one of those worked for me,,,,

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Version: 5.x-1.2 » 5.x-1.3

Same issue here with 5.x-1.3. Tried changing theme to Garland and the problem remains.

Thanks!
Shrop

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I get this error as well. Sometimes it works with the title blank, sometimes not. I can't seem to figure out a consistent trend. http://drupal.org/node/260670#comment-995861

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Aron Novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
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I found a bug which caused this. (maybe there are other bugs as well)
So let's grab the next daily dev build and try it out what happens.
The bug what i killed today: at the initial setup, the feedapi-created content-types were totally messed up (i mean the variable table).

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Aron Novak
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Location Hungary, Budapest
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Component: Code » Code feedapi (core module)
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

it was fixed a long time ago.