Scrubz is a Tuel that takes a bunch of RSS pheeds and lets you pick and chose which specific RSS items you want to use, edit and modify them to make them "your own", then merge them to generate a new, unique RSS pheed using on the highest quality resources.

Scrubz reads categories and imports RSS pheeds from the Newz Tuel. Please visit the Newz Tuel forum for help and questions about The Newz Tuel:
http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID27/6.html

Scrubz ReadMe:

1. Click on The Newz Tuel

2. Create a new category

3. Input some RSS pheeds - Refer to The Newz Tuel thread for more info - http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID27/6.html

4. Click the Scrubz link:
http://127.0.0.1:12345/scrubz/

- You should see a list of all the categories you have created in The Newz Tuel, along with a button "Create RSS pheed".

5. Click on the Category link for the category you just created.

6. Enter the RSS header info: (Note: You don't have to be perfect with this info, just need to enter something to have a complete RSS pheed.)
Link - Enter the URL to your page, blog or RSS pheed.
Title - What's the name of you page or blog?
Description - Enter a short description about your site/blog/pheed.

7. Fill in your FTP info where you are going to publish your pheed on the web so Scrubz can automatically FTP your pheed.

Note About FTP: If you plan on using the same website and folder for multiple feeds, make sure you name them something unique and not "index.rss", as you will overwrite your pheed each time you upload it...I suggest using a good keyword to use as your RSS file name:
keyword.rss

8. Click "Modify" button...You should be taken to a new page containing all the RSS pheeds in the corresponding Newz Tuel category.

9. Select the RSS items you want to include in your own pheeds. Each individual RSS item you have selected will be marked with a light purple background telling you "this item will be included".

Edit items, if desired or needed. You can do this before or after clicking the "ADD ITEM TO RSS PHEED" button.

10. After you have added and customized all the items you wish to include, just click the "UPLOAD RSS PHEED" button.

That's it...You've just created, modified and uploaded your own custom RSS pheed!

Next time you want to update this pheed you won't need to fill out your RSS header or your FTP info and will just select and modify news items for your pheed updates.

Let's say you make a category in Newz Tuel called "desserts".

In the desserts category, you enter three RSS pheeds:
pie
cake
cookies

Each of these three pheeds probably has 10-15 news items each, and could have hudreds.

Instead of showing all 15 items, Scrubz (and the Newz Tuel for that matter) only show the THREE NEWEST ITEMS on the main category page.

We do it this way so your main category page doesn't have tons and tons of items for you to scroll through.

If you want to see all the items for a pheed, just click on the More... button.

So be sure to notice whether you are on the Main cateogry page that lists all pheeds (pie, cake, cookies) that shows the three newest items, or if you are on the page for a single pheed like, "cake" which will show all the items from the cake pheed only.

I didn't add an html editor to Scrubz, but you can click/hold/drag any of the html code over to the input form, you don't even have to copy/paste.

This will make adding some basic html tags to your items.

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06239/716347-237.stm&cid=0&ei=AkPyRIC9HIWkpQLZjLm2BQ

I suggest if you use an item from Yahoo or Google that you remove the redirect link so that the link goes directly to the resource.

This way, Google/Yahoo don't know that you are using their links.

Yahoo really messes with the URLs. Not only do they add the redirect URL to the beginning of each link:
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/las+vegas/SIG=1292kcuf6/

They also mess with the actual syntax of the legit URL.
*http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/foxsports/rss/golf/~3/16892386/5909700

Notice the:
*http%3A//

Should be:
http://

While correcting these links takes a few seconds each time, I feel it is worth the effort, as it isn't any of Google/Yahoo's business. We are just using their resources for research, not using their content.

i finally got the feeds to show in my new category in Newz Tuelz
but it doesnt show in Scrubz

any ideas?

Also, could you give a little more detail...What did you do and what do you see? Thanks.

example: the rss pheed about solar eclipses from the san francisco exploratorium is not highlighted in light purple.
the solar eclipse pheed is found in the zz page that includes the rss pheed of the scrubz pheed.

Updated and edited info is not showing as being edited.

Are the items you selected appearing at all, without the changes you made?

Looks like I was modifying my zztuel tags in dreamweaver on the design side, not the code, and getting unwarranted characters in the code. Newbie-error!

Tx yr patience.

Will

>tx
>Will

Will,

I believe this is the problem: With Scrubz, you have created an entirely new RSS pheed, which you haven't entered into either the Newz Tuel, or ZZ.

Since Scrubz is intended to work with all RSS programs, you need to upload the RSS pheed to a web site, then enter THE URL TO THE NEW PHEED into the Newz Tuel, then account for the new pheed in ZZ.

Scrubz does not change the content or pheeds in The Newz Tuel, it simply creates a new pheed. To use the new pheed, you have to enter it into Newz Tuel like any other RSS pheed. Just copy/paste the URL into the Custom Pheeds box.

I suggest you create a new category called "scrubz" where you can enter all of your own scrubz pheeds and update them from there.

Check the RSS pheed itself and see if Scrubz is updating the pheed correctly and don't use the output of another program for this test.

Will

If your pheeds in Newz Tuel update, you will lose any mods made in Scrubz. This is really dictated by logic becase the items you selected may no longer exist after the pheed is updated.

Plus, you would have to delete any selected pheed after each update, which is a pain.

Because of this, make sure you publish/upload your modifications ASAP.

And a reminder: To trouble shoot, look directly at the Scrubz pheed either via web browser or FTP. Do NOT look at the "output", as there are many other factors that are now in play, such as html editor, RSS appliaction (ZZ, BlogBomb, Carp) SSI tags, etc.

I have a basic question regarding Scrubz, in the RSS Pheed Header Info
where it asks for the link, do I add the .index.rss or do I add .html?

For example:
http://24-7-helpline.com/diets/index.rss or
http://24-7-helpline.com/diets/index.html

Thanks.

Taken from the ReadMe in the first post:

6. Enter the RSS header info: (Note: You don't have to be perfect with this info, just need to enter something to have a complete RSS pheed.)
Link - Enter the URL to your page, blog or RSS pheed.
Title - What's the name of you page or blog?
Description - Enter a short description about your site/blog/pheed.

The output from scrubz contains this format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

The feed validator returns an error stating:
Your feed appears to be encoded as "utf-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"

This is when I named the page index.rss. I then tried index.rss.xml and got the same thing.

I then tried validating one of the pages generated by scrubz, page-5-2006-09-13.html and got the same message.

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks

Gil,

I believe it is server side and need to hear from Kirill before I can be sure.

However, I did a google for the phrase and it turned up this:

http://reinventedsoftware.com/support/feederfaq.html

Scroll to the bottom and the last topic deals with this problem.

Also, are you installing the RSS url into an RSS reader (The Newz Tuel) or just using a web browser?

Thanks Kurt,

I read the info on that page and interpurted to mean that I need to add some MIME types to my server in order for it to read these pages. It also stated that "In practice, newsreader applications tend to ignore the MIME type when determining text encoding, preferring to check the processing instruction in the XML, if at all."

The pheed I used was generated using scrubz. I uploaded it to my server and first tried using it in blogbomb. I tried to view the html and ssi version and found no results. When I viewed the rss version I did however find it.

I then tried to use in on my projects via zz but again that did not work. Finally I inserted the url for this pheed into my Newz but I did not get anything.

I have been able to use scrubz to genrate pheeds for my projects its just this one is that is not working and/or validating. It is more than likely something I am doing wrong or not doing at all (oversight). I know the program works so I'll just keep trying and hopefully will not take up to much time here asking for help.

Thanks again.

Gil,

This is the type of info that is important when trouble shooting. Including this could have saved me 20 minutes.

If it is just one pheed and you know Scrubz is working, then you most likely have entered a bad character somewhere, probably when you edited an item.

I think you may ignore this error, but if you want to fix it, upload the following .htaccess file on your server:

AddCharset utf-8 .htm .html .xml .rss # you may add other extentions here

>The pheed I used was generated using scrubz. I uploaded it
>to my server and first tried using it in blogbomb. I tried
>to view the html and ssi version and found no results. When
>I viewed the rss version I did however find it.
>
>I then tried to use in on my projects via zz but again that
>did not work. Finally I inserted the url for this pheed into
>my Newz but I did not get anything.

Could you provide me with the link to a non-working RSS file generated by scrubz?

Kirill

>>The pheed I used was generated using scrubz. I uploaded it
>>to my server and first tried using it in blogbomb. I tried
>>to view the html and ssi version and found no results. When
>>I viewed the rss version I did however find it.
>>
>>I then tried to use in on my projects via zz but again that
>>did not work. Finally I inserted the url for this pheed into
>>my Newz but I did not get anything.
>
>Could you provide me with the link to a non-working RSS file
>generated by scrubz?
>
>
>Kirill

Kirill,
try this one http://24-7-helpline.com/index.rss
and yes, I know, from now on I will name all pheeds my keyword.rss instead of index.rss

Thanks

Hi Kirill, Kurt,

Please forget my last post regarding scrub and my pheeds not showing up. I found my mistake, inside my blogbomb script I made a foolish mistake, I forgot to add the .com to my url. Haste makes waste.

Yes, it should continue to work.

Kirill

I already have pleanty of feeds, in the news tuelz so that was no problem.

I choose to work with a feed from blogsearch.google.com, so I new it had plenty of feeds with-in it.

Since i have the option of using this feed in ZZ tuelz to create an html page, it was nice to see that you could work with each individual feed to create, for example: H1 tags, which are great food for search engines.

You could add attitional attributes to change color or styles.

Overall another great tool.

However, because I am lazy, I will be using it in a limited manner.

kelvin
http://21freetips.com