Problem with valid date time stamps
When adding the following URL to twitterfeed I get complains concerning the pubDate entries:
http://www.gesundheitpro.de/rss_2_0/t...
FeedValidator tells me though, that "This is a valid RSS feed"
Whats wrong here. Am I missing something?
http://www.gesundheitpro.de/rss_2_0/t...
FeedValidator tells me though, that "This is a valid RSS feed"
Whats wrong here. Am I missing something?
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Inappropriate?Perhaps this was a temporary problem? I just tried your feed URL, and twitterfeed didn't have a problem with it..
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Inappropriate?Hello,
wow, I didn't change anything but now the yellow error marker switched to a green "ok" symbol and it seems to work!
Thanks and bye,
Frank
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?When I try to add my feed, I get a message that says there is no valid pubDate. I have the date and time stamps turned on at my wordpress blog. How can I fix this?
Help!
I’m confused.
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Inappropriate?Darlene - when I look at your feed (via the email you sent), I can see that there are no dates on the individual items, but these are needed by twitterfeed to determine if an item in the feed is new and should be posted to twitter.
Looking a little closer, you're using feedburner with wordpress, and I think the issue is that you're using a RSS 0.92 feed - which doesn't provide dates - while Wordpress also provides a RSS 2.0 and Atom feed.
Perhaps you could change the feed URL in your feedburner settings for the account (under "edit feed details"), and if the entry in the "Original feed" textbox ends with "feed=rss", change that to "feed=rss2". This should then pick up your RSS 2.0 feed which will/should contain date stamps on each feed item.
Hope this helps - let me know..
Mario. -
Inappropriate?Hi Mario,
Thanks for your reply. I was going to do what you suggested, but Feedburner says not to change your original feed:
You should not change "Original Feed" unless you move your original feed to a new domain or a new location on your existing server. Also, changing "Feed Address" will require you to update your feed subscribers with your new address; the previous feed address will no longer work.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Darlene
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?You may want to check with feedburner support, but I wouldn't have thought changing the "original feed" URL would cause a problem. In essence you're telling feedburner to pick up a different feed, but in your case that's what you actually want to do.
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Inappropriate?Twitterfeed is great (and I've donated too) but there is definitely some kind of problem with some kinds of feeds.
Here is my feed that won't update in Twitter via Twitterfeed:
http://decidefor.us/rss.xml
You'll see if you use feedvalidator.org that my feed does validate.
Thinking there was perhaps some kind of weird bug with the RSS 2.0 format, I added the feed to Feedburner and had Feedburner turn it into an Atom Feed...I then attempted to set up THIS version of my feed in Twitterfeed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Crystal-Ball
But the problem still persists: whether using the original feed, or the Feedburner-ized atom version, Twitterfeed updates once...and then stops.
Please let me know if I need to somehow tweak the format of my feed to get it to work with Twitterfeed - I'll be happy to do this and I'm pretty frustrated.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?someonespecial: the reason for this is that your links on the individual items are all the same. twitterfeed checks these to avoid posting duplicate entries, on the assumption that each item in a feed contains a unique link to itself.
In a case like yours, the easiest way to get this to work is to uncheck the box that says "include item link" in the twitterfeed settings for this feed - the link is not really very useful in this case, as it's always the same, and this will also give you more characters to play with. If you don't include the link when posting, then twitterfeed won't check it and will post any items that are new according to the publish date.
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Inappropriate?Any reason why this feed doesn't work?
http://www.ustream.tv/rss/videos/pb30
It looks like pubDate is in there, but Twitterfeed always reports a problem. -
Inappropriate?I believe it's because the dates are not in a valid format, see also http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?ur...
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Inappropriate?How about this feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/kg4jbj/03d4c7b...
Twitterfeed tells me: "We couldn't find valid date/time stamps on items. Please make sure your feed contains valid pubDate entries for each post "
Can I somehow extrapolate the date/time so it can work? -
Inappropriate?If you look at the source of the feed, you can see that the individual items don't contain a date entry. twitterfeed needs this to know if an item is new and should be posted. I haven't really used Yahoo Pipes myself so am not sure how you'd make sure there is a pubDate for each entry, but perhaps someone at their support end could help.
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Inappropriate?this is not my feed but I would like to make the twitter feed, can I ? http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/rss/uni...
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Inappropriate?I can't answer this for you - I would try and see if there are any terms regarding their RSS feed on the site providing the feed. Different companies have different terms of use for their RSS content.
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Inappropriate?I too get an error report involving no valid time/date stamps. And yet they appear to be on my feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/abajourna...
For Twitter account www.twitter.com/abajournal -
Ed - the dates are not in a valid format for a feed, see also: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?ur... -
Inappropriate?http://www.blurty.com/users/freemdavi... what do I do???
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The items in this feed don't contain dates - does blurty provide RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds that contain dates? twitterfeed won't work on feeds where items don't contain valid dates.
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