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Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Update

Version 0.2.2 will be in -devel soon.

Changelog:

* Add homescreen widget.
* Add OPML import.
* URL opener fixes.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Quote:

Originally Posted by marxian (Post 1479805)

That is harmless warning caused by a private QtNetwork method being called more than once. The method simply returns in this case, so there is no harm done. Your problem is probably caused by some error in parsing the RSS feed. If you could list the feeds you have tried, I will test them on my device.

Here are some:

Code:

http://bash.org.pl/rss

http://android.com.pl/feed/

http://talk.maemo.org/external.php?type=RSS2

To be honest, until now I didn't come across any feed that would work on cuteNews on my N900.
In the meantime I have reflashed my phone once but it didn't help.
Maybe it is a problem with my phone? I have no idea.
All its functions seem to work properly.
It looks like the application downloads some data from the Internet during refreshing but they aren't shown later or the app don't save them in cuteNews.db file.

Could anybody upload the file cuteNews.db with at least one feed saved in?
I would transfer it to my phone and see if it would work.

EDIT:
My cuteNews.db file has 644 permissions. I attach my file.

After opening that file in SQLite db browser I can see that there are saved subscriptions but there is no articles even though I have refreshed the feeds before.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

I checked the database file in sqlite3, and it appears to be fine. I was able to add some dummy data to the 'articles' table without any problem. Have you tried using the latest version 0.2.2? 0.2.2 displays a popup if there is a database error. The other possibility is that there might be some problem with checking the datetime of the latest article when the feed is parsed. If this check returns an invalid datetime, then no articles will be added.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Thank you for paying my attention on possible datetime problems.

The application started to work when I have changed my region to "United Kingdom". Normally I have set "Poland" region. It looks like the issue is somewhere here.

Is it possible to make it work when "Poland" region is set?

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Added this url: http://rss.gmane.org/messages/comple...auldron.builds

but nothing is downloaded. How to get some log?

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Quote:

Originally Posted by mp107 (Post 1479853)

Same problem here; I have changed my region from Spain to UK and cuteNews has started to work properly (not reading feeds before that)

What an odd behaviour... :confused:

Cheers!

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Probably not as odd. ;)
Most likely there exists some API which returns some data (date?) in different formats depending on regional setting.
And cuteNews currently supports only one specified.
Or there is some bug in Maemo's API if that relationship shouldn't exist.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1479860)

Added this url: http://rss.gmane.org/messages/comple...auldron.builds

but nothing is downloaded. How to get some log?

That feed has some errors.
Check:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check....auldron.builds
Probably cuteNews is unable to parse date/time data and ignore the whole feed.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Update

Version 0.3.0 is now available from -devel.

Changelog:

Add support for subscription plugins.
Fix datetime locale issues.
Improve feed parsing.

Plugins

Plugins are effectively preset custom commands that optionally define user-configurable parameters. The parameter names and their user-defined values are stored in the database and passed to the executable when updating the subscription feed. Plugins can also provide a redirect for enclosure downloads.

The first available plugin is cutenews-youtube, which provides a feed of latest YouTube videos determined by either a search query, or a user channel name. Source code for the plugin is at https://github.com/marxoft/cutenews/...lugins/youtube.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Unfortunately the problem still persists in the newest version.
The behavior seems to be the same.

Re: cuteNews - RSS news and podcast aggregator

Anyone tried the new version from Devel?
Doesn't seem to start, wondered if it was just me?
No output if run from a terminal either.