Wow, 6 years old is impressive - is it Friday yet?
*UNOFFICIAL* Frontier Forums Developer Posts RSS feed
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I've just added Zac Cocken to the accounts my scraper checks.
I've added Sally Morgan-Moore to the accounts my scraper checks, as she's now an ED Community Manager.
Quick question - I generally always filter to RSS and Steam only. I see that when I do that the URL becomes https://elitedevtracker.com/?services[]=MiggyRSS&services[]=Steam so I tried bookmarking that rather than have to turn off Twitter and Reddit every time, but it doesn't work - I still get all four every time I click the bookmark.
Is it possible to jump straight to a filtered version of the feed?
Using Safari on macOS Big Sur, if that is relevant.
Thanks for the excellent dev tracker btw - been using it for years, invaluable.
Is it possible to jump straight to a filtered version of the feed?
Using Safari on macOS Big Sur, if that is relevant.
Thanks for the excellent dev tracker btw - been using it for years, invaluable.
That is not my tool, it's at the ed.miggy.org URL in my signature. Someone else is responsible for elitedevtracker.
I've just added Lydiah Moon to the tracked set.
Scratch that, I've now actually read their intro post, and see they're not going to work on ED.
Scratch that, I've now actually read their intro post, and see they're not going to work on ED.
It appears that the API key which BrettC provided me with some time ago, which enables me to use the XenForo API to read post content rather than scraping that (so lower load on the forums), has been disabled this afternoon.
I shall endeavour to find some manner to contact Frontier about this to see if it can get reinstated. Else I'll need to go back to scraping code, which I never updated for XenForo due to BrettC's kindness with the API key.
In the meantime my devtracker won't be picking up any new posts.
I shall endeavour to find some manner to contact Frontier about this to see if it can get reinstated. Else I'll need to go back to scraping code, which I never updated for XenForo due to BrettC's kindness with the API key.
In the meantime my devtracker won't be picking up any new posts.
Thought it had been rather quiet today....
Fingers crossed you manage to get in touch with someone.
@sallymorganmoore has replied on twitter (where I prodded after emailing community@frontier.co.uk) - so the hope is I just need her to not be swamped with other things so as to track down someone to escalate it to.
rootsrat
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Feel free to ping me in a couple of weeks if you won't get anywhere with this. I'm currently away, FDEV are swamped with behind the scenes work, and the CM responsible for the forums is also away.
I'll try to get someone to contact you if you get nowhere with this after I'm back home in 2 weeks.
This appears to have been resolved, at least for the time being.
So as to not get an email every 5 minutes alerting me that the scraping wasn't working I'd changed the cron job to only every 12 hours.
I received an email yesterday around 17h BST asking for more information, to which I replied. It didn't state that the key had been reinstated.
Overnight the next run of the scraper worked, and now I've put it back to its usual every 5 minutes (but with a post-run sleep of 2 minutes whilst a lock is held, so that it always gives the forum servers at least that much of a breather). Thus normal service is resumed.
So as to not get an email every 5 minutes alerting me that the scraping wasn't working I'd changed the cron job to only every 12 hours.
I received an email yesterday around 17h BST asking for more information, to which I replied. It didn't state that the key had been reinstated.
Overnight the next run of the scraper worked, and now I've put it back to its usual every 5 minutes (but with a post-run sleep of 2 minutes whilst a lock is held, so that it always gives the forum servers at least that much of a breather). Thus normal service is resumed.
Yeah not very helpful of me. Soz.
Scorpion Galvanized, Out Now!
Greetings Commanders. Welcome to Sally's Space Swag Emporium where I'm here to tell you (dramatic point to camera) about our latest release today, on the Elite Dangerous Gamestore! That's right! The Scorpion has a new coat to wear whilst out, rampaging through the galactic terrain. You can...
and https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/discovery-scanner-20-09-2022.608471/page-5#post-9952389
Those are both in the feed, indeed I'm looking at the second one in my Tiny Tiny RSS instance right now. So this looks like a problem with your RSS reader.Yeah not very helpful of me. Soz.
Scorpion Galvanized, Out Now!
Greetings Commanders. Welcome to Sally's Space Swag Emporium where I'm here to tell you (dramatic point to camera) about our latest release today, on the Elite Dangerous Gamestore! That's right! The Scorpion has a new coat to wear whilst out, rampaging through the galactic terrain. You can...forums.frontier.co.uk
and https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/discovery-scanner-20-09-2022.608471/page-5#post-9952389
Code:
18:14:44 0$ grep -E '608617|9952389' ed-dev-posts.rss
<link>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/9952389/</link>
<description><a href="https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/9952389/">Discovery Scanner - 20/09/2022</a>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/9952389/</guid>
<link>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/scorpion-galvanized-out-now.608617/</link>
<description><a href="https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/scorpion-galvanized-out-now.608617/">Scorpion Galvanized, Out Now!</a>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/608617/</guid>Will start having a dig. Cheers
This has brought to light that I made a mistake when adding the fulltext feed in the head/link part of https://ed.miggy.org/devposts.html - but it was always correct when mentioned in the main body of that page. I'd used
ed-dev-posts-full.rss instead of the correct ed-dev-posts-fulltext.rss. I've now corrected this, so any browser/extension picking up the feeds that way will see the correct one.I'm surprised it's taken this long for anyone to report an issue with this, or for me to notice....