Hubzilla questions

Admins Welt

Braunschweig, Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:02:06 +0100 last edited: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:57:59 +0100

@Channel One @Hubzilla Support Forum+

Hi!

How can i get RSS Streams into Hubzilla?

And how can i stream them as my own posts, like friendica_contact_advanced_post_as_own_messages?

EG i plan to create an account to recieve RSS Messages and post them as my own Messages to my public Status.

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Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:38:07 +0100

Do you want the RSS stream just coming in to your channel or do you want it to be its own channel that anyone can connect to?

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:04:16 +0100

RSS_account into my own channel. (For an seperate Channel like an RSS-Forward it must have an extra channel)

giac hellvecio

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:13:52 +0100

1-administrator must enable the 'rss thing'

2-then you must follow the 'contact rss',

3-then you must enable/set your channel for to follow/tap into sources,

4-then you set the source with your 'contact rss' .(in your channel)

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:17:04 +0100

For that, just go to your Connections page and enter the RSS feed url as a channel address under Add New Connection. If there are recent messages, they should show up right away.

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:18:08 +0100

where are the 'rss thing'?

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:19:19 +0100

There is the "Allow Feeds as Connections" option under site admin settings

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:23:18 +0100

> "Allow Feeds as Connections" option under site admin settings
Ahh, im search this into funktions or plugins..

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:35:57 +0100

Admin -> Site, then scroll down to the Policies section.

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:44:28 +0100 last edited: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:56:17 +0100

+ RSS-FEED allow: Checkt (But the Message 'Protocol not available' should have an Hint.')
+ New Contack from RSS-Feed: Checkt
+ RSS-Messages apears into my Grid: Checkt

? How become these Messages on my public channel/Status?

And can i change the avatar for the RSS-Feed?

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:00:12 +0100

Settings -> Addition features -> Post Composition Features -> Channel Sources is, I think, the option you want. (it is what I set on my feed channels)

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:12:32 +0100

> Settings -> Addition features -> Post Composition Features -> Channel Sources:
Checkt

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:24:28 +0100

and Preferences/channel_sources set: checkt

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:33:28 +0100 last edited: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:42:22 +0100

now waiting for RSS Update ... RSS_Feed to Public Channel works, Thank you!

At last: How can i change the RSS-Contact Avatar?

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:41:20 +0100

I don't know if that is possible. If it is possible, I have many I would like to change!

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:58:57 +0100 last edited: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:01:52 +0100

@Channel One

> How can i change the RSS-Contact Avatar?

How we make an Hubzilla excange request?

The RSS-Feed show into my public channel but use the standard-icon (slushi_person), this may discountenanced for the visitors. It should an option to change the avatar-icon of it like own profile/channel icon.

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:20:00 +0100

Of all the RSS feeds I have imported, I've only had one, that I can recall, that did not come in as the standard RSS icon. I can only assume it was defined by the feed itself, as it was the logo of the site. This was in the most recent feed I added. Whether this was my first feed to have one defined or whether it is a new hubzilla feature to find and use such an image, I don't know.

Mario Vavti

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:46:32 +0100

IIRC we look if we find a suitable profile image for the feed. If there is none found we use the default rss-icon.
If you need to "customize" the feed channel you should probalbly create a separate channel for the feed and then source the channel instead of the feed directly.

Marshall Sutherland

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:11:46 +0100

I have all my feeds going into individual channels, so the channels themselves have nice icons, but the posts themselves post with the source's generic image. On the other hand, if I had the feed coming into my channel and propagating, I wouldn't want it to be using my icon.

But, anyway, for me it is no big deal. If there was a way to set them, I would, but I'm not stressing over it.

Mario Vavti

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:21:41 +0100

I think it's probably a bit complicated... The question starts with where to save the image. The feed is not yours, it is its own identity...

Thinking about it, if i was a feed publisher i would not like somebody to republish the feed with another logo, icon or whatever...

It is probanly better to fix the feed to include an image...

Admins Welt

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:02:06 +0100

Yes, im understand. For my chase, im the owner of the RSS, but that are not ever so. Even the RSS-Owner must set the Icon and solves like get favicon from Site are not right too.

IMHO a solution may that the RSS-Owner send an special-MSG like: Title=HUBZILLA_CMD_SET_MY_RSS_FEED_ICON, Content=http:....path_to_icon_image and the Hub get and cache them until got next Special-MSG. The Msg may deleted after receive on sender by hand and Hub automaticly.

Mario Vavti

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 06:58:19 +0100

Owner must set the Icon and solves like get favicon from Site are not right too.

We don't fetch the favicon...

Every rss feed has the possibility to provide a link to an image within the feed. That is the image we use if it is set...

cer

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:34:48 +0100

But in Friendica (I know, I know) you could hand edit the image.

Admins Welt

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:35:23 +0100 last edited: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:37:24 +0100

> We don't fetch the favicon...

Yes, i mean that are an bad idea to get the favicon from the sender URL. Because the URL and RSS-Content-Owner dont must the same.

> Every rss feed has the possibility to provide a link to an image within the feed.

Nice, but - after some tests here - Hubzilla dont get the image from the feed.


<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>foo</title>
        <image>
            <url>https://www.......logo.png</url>
        </image>

And, of course, many RSS-Senders are not configurable for the user to change the feed-image. And these are the Idea behind the Special_feed_message for set an icon.

But these may hubzilla vulnerable, and open's some ways to change the icon from middleway. Another point are that nobody can prevent that everyone repost there messages with an false flag (or icon), so the msg-owner may lament against.

On this below, i think, give hubzilla an option to set an own icon and/or the channel icon. And he can this do of own risk else if it not the feed owner.

(hope ists understandable)

Mike Macgirvin

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:13:58 +0100

Hubzilla currently has the ability to refetch an updated image for a connection but I don't know that this ability has been included in the RSS protocol driver. That would be the first place to start.

This photo is set at a site level and is defined by the source channel and it is not appropriate for a channel to change it to another image completely since this would change it for the entire site - and the replacement image could be "unpleasant".

However it would be entirely appropriate to provide a way for the site admin to change a given channel photo as an administrative task. That photo would then be used on the site unless it was changed again by the original channel owner. By setting a modified date well into the future the site admin could also provide a photo which cannot be changed by the channel owner within our lifetimes (for instance if a channel changed to a new porn photo every day). I haven't scoped out what work this would involve but that's how I would approach it. You would be welcome to have a look. Our developers are all pretty busy at the moment.

Admins Welt

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:42:13 +0100

Claro, a Todo.

Tanx and happy Holydays!

Admins Welt

Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:28:55 +0200

Hi @Mike Macgirvin!
What is the state of it?