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Key: MDL-7946
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Minor Minor
Assignee: Petr Škoda
Reporter: Petr Škoda
Votes: 16
Watchers: 5
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Use simplepie instead of magpie for rss parsing

Created: 17/Dec/06 11:00 PM   Updated: 18/Jul/08 12:09 AM
Component/s: RSS
Affects Version/s: 1.6, 1.8, 1.7
Fix Version/s: None

File Attachments: 1. Zip Archive simplerss.zip (2 kb)

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Participants: Charles Fulton, Juan Segarra Montesinos and Petr Škoda
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We use Magpie for rss parsing and download now - is is buggy and not maintained :-(

There is a better LGPL alternative - see http://simplepie.org/


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Juan Segarra Montesinos - 11/Mar/08 01:41 AM
> is is buggy and not maintained :-(

In fact, google reader's shared item feed isn't parsed ok with magpie. I've tested it with simplepie and works great.

any plans to change this? ;-)

Charles Fulton - 18/Jul/08 12:07 AM
Includes a patch file for the rss_client block and a wrapper for SimplePie. Patched against 1.9.2

Charles Fulton - 18/Jul/08 12:09 AM
We've cooked up a patch for 1.9.2 that uses the SimplePie library. There's still an issue with iTunesU streams, but that might be better handled in its own block.