Feed Refresh? PS installed modules for test

"I have to manually refresh them in order for the stories to come through" - Can you explain me this more? As I understand you, cron normally creates the new nodes, but something is not applied to the nodes? Hm. Sorry, i need a little more verbose explanation of the problem.
Anyway, let's see this: http://drupal.org/node/200037 please ask your developer to try out simpletest tests of feedapi. If the tests are successful, basically fedapi works ok.

It may be that your feeds are just too slow in responding and your cron gives up on them and moves on.

admin/settings/feedapi has a setting option for Cron time for FeedAPI [%]:

You can try boosting this to a higher percentage.

I suggest to the developer to insert some watchdog() calls to feedapi_cron() and see what happens (if there is no other debugging possibility)

I observ a similar situation with feeds which are not refreshed regularly. Here are simpletest and version information :

FeedAPI Aggregator basic functions
15 passes, 7 fails and 3 exceptions.
FeedAPI Aggregator basic functions: Refresh a feed and find out if it's okay. Uses Common Syndication Parser for parsing and downloading.
[role] created name: simpletest_ng96, id: 3 at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 278] OK
[role] created permissions: administer feedapi, advanced feedapi options, administer nodes, access news feeds, create aggreg_simpletest_xl1N content at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 282] OK
[user] name: simpletest_h8fa pass: qhHSbJPhDQ created at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 312] OK
[browser] GET http://bulletins.alimentsdici.info/?q=user at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 107] OK
[browser] Setting name="simpletest_h8fa" at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 111] OK
[browser] Setting pass="qhHSbJPhDQ" at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 111] OK
[browser] POST by click on Se connecter at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 125] OK
[login] found name: simpletest_h8fa at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 343] OK
[login] not blocked at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 344] OK
[login] not reserved at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 345] OK
[browser] GET http://bulletins.alimentsdici.info/?q=node/add/aggreg_simpletest_xl1N at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 107] OK
[browser] Setting feedapi[feedapi_url]="http://novaak.net/rss.xml?simpletest_oBlF" at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 111] OK
[browser] POST by click on Soumettre at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_test_case.php line 125] OK
The node is created. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 49] FAIL
The feed node is in the database at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 53] FAIL
The feed can be loaded. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 55] FAIL
The source's page is empty before refreshing. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 64] FAIL
The proper number of items were created. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 68] FAIL
The third news title can be read at the source page. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 71] FAIL
The proper number of items can be found in the database. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 75] FAIL
All the news items are deleted from the database. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 84] OK
The content-type's setting variable is successfully deleted. at [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_aggregator/feedapi_aggregator.module.test line 94] OK
Unexpected PHP error [Invalid argument supplied for foreach()] severity [E_WARNING] in [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/modules/node/node.module line 521] EXCEPTION
Unexpected PHP error [implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments.] severity [E_WARNING] in [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/modules/node/node.module line 525] EXCEPTION
Unexpected PHP error [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 query: SELECT n.nid, n.vid, n.type, n.status, n.created, n.changed, n.comment, n.promote, n.sticky, r.timestamp AS revision_timestamp, r.title, r.body, r.teaser, r.log, r.format, u.uid, u.name, u.picture, u.data FROM bulletinsnode n INNER JOIN bulletinsusers u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN bulletinsnode_revisions r ON r.vid = n.vid WHERE ] severity [E_USER_WARNING] in [/var/alternc/html/s/spc/drupal_farm/lib/drupal-5.7/includes/database.mysql.inc line 172]

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Hello

I have the same Problem. I have created a Feed Type and added somer Feeds. Only when I refresh the Feed manualy, new items are fetched.

I use the poormancron Module. The Cron runs every 15 minutes. The cron output in the watchdog says nothing about fetching the feeds.
This is the entry in the watchdog
Executed feedapi_cron via poormanscron, took 0 Sek..

It seems that Feedapi does not work with the Poormancrom Module, because when I run the Cron manualy the feeds are fetched and nodes are created.

Anything I can do?

bennos

I have one guess that maybe causes poormanscron incompatibility.
At feedapi_cron_time() function, there feedapi checks against cron_semaphore variable. Please make sure, that this variable has value "0" or poormanscron handle this variable nicely.

thx

this worked with poormanscron.

benjamin

@bennos: I don't quite understand your last response - could you fix your issue?

Alex

I have the same problem. The poormanscron module don't refresh feeds created by freeapi module.

Yes. This is a very unfortunate thing.
I assume poormanscron module has to set up cron semaphore correctly (as Drupal core does), because for example FeedAPI depends on it. poormanscron even does not try to set the maximum execution php value. I'll post my suggestions to poormanscron issue queue.

The relevant ticket at poormanscron module: http://drupal.org/node/235328

I am still not clear how you fix this issue with poormanscron !!!

Subcribing, needing refresh through poormanscon also.
greetings, Martijn