EXT: News RSS Importer¶

What does it do?¶

The extension imports any RSS feed to tt_news records. Assigned categories will be created automatically.

Screenshots¶

Wizard¶

As your feed records may reside in different sysfolders, there is a wizard to see all records. You find it under web > functions:

Make sure you click on first page of your page tree (best choice)

You can edit, simulate import or import from here manually. You will see all output, with protocol you see complete arrays like in the wizard of the records.

Scheduler¶

If you want to run a cronjob for updating your feeds you cam do this with scheduler. Make sure to read the manual of scheduler how to setup a cronjob for automatic execution.

Now you can create a task for scheduler:

Also make sure sure the _cli_scheduler user is located in a group that has rights to create tt_news and tt_news_cat record and make sure the group has access to the folders it should be writing into. See tt_news records creation fails when executed from scheduler in section Know Problems of this document for more details.

You can specify the uid's of the records by using comma list (eg 1,4,5,6) or simply leave it empty (*) for updating all feed records. All actions will be written to log which is by default fileadmin/rssimport.log.

For viewing the log I recommend extension reports_logview:

newCategoryParentId¶

storagePid¶

categoryStoragePid¶

defaultCategories¶

mapping¶

mapping {
   title = title
   links = link
   datetime = pubDate
   author = dc:creator|author
   bodytext = content:encoded
   ext_url = guid|link
}

default.tt_news¶

mod.ttnew_rss_import {
   default.tt_news {
      type = 2
  }
   default.tt_news_cat {
      description  = Imported from RSS feed
  }

}

[mod.ttnew_rss_import]

All of these settings can be done in the record form as well except the default.tt_news / default.tt_news_cat .

Getting an error while retreiving and RSS feed¶

While trying to fetch an RSS file using the “Test XML feed” button, the following error shows up in the Source textarea of my ttnews_rss_import record:

ERROR: The input content failed XML parsing: Line 1: Invalid document end

Solution : set $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['curlUse']=0 in typo3 configuration or try to tweak your CURL settings if you have to keep CURL enabled.

Logfile is not created / updated¶

The extension does not create the logfile automatically. If you want to make use of the logfile for verifying scheduler task is running ok, you will have to create the log file manually (default location is fileadmin/rssimport.log and can be adjusted in extension options) and you must make sure the file is writable by user apache.

tt_news record creation fails when executed from scheduler¶

This is a configuration issue with your installation :

Here is the solution :- create a usergroup with access rights and mountpoints you need- give access to pages with module 'access' to this user group as you would for any 'normal' backend usergroup using the access permissions module --> VERY IMPORTANT- add user _cli_scheduler to this usergroup

A good way to test your setup is to use the User Admin module to switch to the _cli_scheduler user. This way you will be able to see:- whether you have access to the storage of your records at all- whether you can edit or create the expected records in this storage.