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OPML imported postrank feeds to google reader show all posts instead of simply great
I'm trying to put a lot of feeds showing only "great" posts to my Google Reader. The OPML has been exported correctly and the Google reader has imported the correct addresses
However the feed itself shows all posts instead of simply the "great" ones
You can check that by looking at the postrank page for that feed
Any idea why this is happening?
I tried to remove all subscriptions from Greader and reimport the OPML but same thing.
However the feed itself shows all posts instead of simply the "great" ones
You can check that by looking at the postrank page for that feed
Any idea why this is happening?
I tried to remove all subscriptions from Greader and reimport the OPML but same thing.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for reporting this. I'll have our guys take a look at it. Noticed another odd quirk when I tried exporting the same feed.
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Inappropriate?Looking into this I see the feed filtered and looking right? I wonder if its has refreshed in the Google cache at this point?
If I visit this page:
http://www.postrank.com/feed/502dce56...
I see the feed you're talking about. If I select great several stories are filtered. If I click on the orange RSS icon and select the filtered feed url:
http://feeds.postrank.com/502dce56228...
and paste that url in the browser it appears to me that only great or better stories are in the feed. I'm not sure why you are seeing the others.
I wonder if the google rss cache is not respecting url parameters? But that doesn't sound right.
1. Is this still the case for you?
2. Can you paste the filtered feed url in your browser and see the correct stories?
Jim
I’m curious
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Inappropriate?@Jim yes I did try that and yet it worked correctly on my browser. I don't know why this would happen only with an OPML import as the lifehacker feed I've subscribed to normally works. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for confirming that. I'll take a closer look at the OPML import process but given the correct url I'd expect that filtering to be applied as we're both seeing.
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Inappropriate?Mystery solved - and as you might expect its a pretty silly head-slapper of a bug - you should be seeing better OPML export behavior now.
It turns out that OPML export wrote the filtered feed urls with the wrong url parameter for the filter level. Instead of "postrank=best" the correct url is "level=best". This is why filtering failed for OPML export but the feed itself was in good shape and other features worked as expected.
Newly exported OPMLs will now contain the correct urls and the feeds are filtered and correct.
Can you confirm on your side?
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