You need to edit the script - I assume you're talking about buyitbomb_zon.cgi .

Near the top is a line that lists affiliate id. You just need to change it to your own.

Be sure to reupload it to your server in ASCII format, & CHMOD to 755.

Best,
Jeff

Has happened quite a few times. I usually just toss the feed I was trying to add but thought I'd ask for help here in the forum.

Is there any reason the length of the URL should be restricted or is this another problem???

It just happened again as I was trying to test out an itunes feed

feds available at:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator

Also while I am here - does anyone have an easy solution so I can publish my own RSS feeds and trade with other BLOGBOMBERS etc. ???

Thanks in advance

Mick

____

Can someone please help me? I do not know where to find this info?

Mick,
This post is better on the Official Thread for BlogBomb.

Your first question is answered on the BB Official "tech" thread, and your second question is answered on the "Where to find pheeds" Official Thread.

James C

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Anyone know how to solve this "rss url is too long" error?

Thanks

Rob

I just posted this on the Blogbomb Readme thread:

The fix is here:

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=395&forum=DCForumID9

See post 11 on that thread from Bo. This came up with Bo's BuyItbomb Amazon release, and it was dicussed on that thread.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff! I had already given up on finding the answer (looked everywhere) and as you just noted it is not even in the threads I was sent to (in the aMazon thread???). You're a good man Jeff! Thank you! I'll try the fix and see if that helps. Good karma will be coming your way :'>

Mick

By the way, I have a problem with BuyItBomb Zon. No matter which option I select - rss.basic.template, rss.custom.template, rss_detailed.template, When I select format - rss, I only got rss.basic.template result! I use the template Bo provided.

Any idesa?

Rao

I think I know what it is, but...

What Kurt and Taz were saying above is to post support questions on existing readme/tech threads for each bomb. If they get posted all over the place, future users will never be able to find what they need. In fact, that's what happened with the answer to Mick's original question about the url length - it was posted to the buyitbomb-zon thread, and really it was a Blogbomb question. Kurt and Taz both thought the original answer was on the readme for blogbomb where it should be, but somehow that one slipped by unnoticed or they would have moved it.

Since this thread is on RSS resources, your question should be posted on the buyitbomb-zon thread at:

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=456&forum=DCForumID9

Thanks,
Jeff

I post my question there.

>http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=456&forum=DCForumID9

Rob

The reason I ask, as it seems there is conflicting info on their site. On one hand, there's an XML feed easily accessable, on the other, their terms say "The Service is a fee based service and is only available to organizations that have entered into a license agreement with Moreover".

the reason I ask, is that I''ve been busy setting up a couple of good info sites in a particular niche, and would hate for my server to get dinged due by moreove (EV1 is sensitive abiut that stuff )

Erik

I've avoided Moreover for a couple of reasons...One, like you pointed out Moreover isn't clear about what can be used and also, that Moreover seems to only use titles/links and not include any descriptions. Maybe this has changed recently...but I've just looked elsewhere...

Does Yahoo have a limit on how many times you can show their feeds or am I doing something wrong.

Do you know that FeedSter.com does not provide "rss" feed link any more? I can click on the other 3 links: MyFeedster, OPML and ATOM, but RSS...

And also I noticed that the results from FeedSter display whole contents instead of just first few line of an article.

Rocket News stopped working.

Looks like the updated their site so the regular expressions are out of sync and the query url has changed.

I've updated them and it seems to be working OK.

To update:

The forum doesn't like the square brackets in the regular expression so I've added a text attachment explaining what needs to be done.

Simply follow the directions

Everything should now be OK

--
Edward

Just fixed the Yahoo NewsBomb Script as well.

Open yahoo2rss.php and Find:

As above - the forum alters the code so open the attached text file.

That should do it

UPDATE:

Download the file rather than simply opening it - some tags in the file make the page look odd when viewing through a browser.

--
Edward

>Do you know that FeedSter.com does not provide "rss" feed
>link any more? I can click on the other 3 links: MyFeedster,
>OPML and ATOM, but RSS...

If you 'hover' over the rss link you get a drop down menu - ignore this.
Simply click the '2.0 rss' and it's converted to rss (at least it is for me).

>And also I noticed that the results from FeedSter display
>whole contents instead of just first few line of an article.

This is purely down to how the original poster chose to syndicate the article.

Besides - more words = more traffic

--
Edward

I assume yahoo2rss.php is the same as yahoonews2rss.php
If so - I have changed the 2 lines you mentioned and my news still won't work.

Anything else I need to know?

No worries - happy to help.

I've just noticed that the script in it's current form also returns the sponsored results that are shown at the bottom of the page results and the audio / video section on the right.

The fix for this is as follows:

Find:

$match_count = ($match_count > 25) ? 25 : $match_count;

and change 25 to 20

That way only the first 20 results are kept - i.e. the first 20 results are the actual news stories.

--
Edward

>I assume yahoo2rss.php is the same as yahoonews2rss.php

Yep - I just mistyped.

>If so - I have changed the 2 lines you mentioned and my news
>still won't work.

What sort of results do you get?
Just the xml header with no results? Or timing out? Or something else?

Was the php version working before or did you use the curl version?

I've double checked the script and it's still working for me.
Any additional information you can provide will help me track things down a bit further.

--
Edward

Thanks for your help.

Jae

http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=499&forum=DCForumID9

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Moreover, a news feed aggregator, has moved their service to FeedDirect.com. This move was made so Moreover can more easily manage the websites who contain the company’s news feeds.

As reported by NetImperative.com, “Moreover specializes in gathering online news from across the Internet, categorizing, editing and filtering it and delivering it to users.”

Current websites that use Moreover newsfeeds must register with FeedDirect in order to receive a news feed code replacement or have their accounts terminated with no further notice. FeedDirect’s free service will feature contextual ads within the news feeds.
Moreover has partnerships with MSN, Yahoo, and Google. MSN just finalized a deal with Moreover to develop MSN’s Newsbot, which is “a localized automated news service that gathers feeds from more than 4,000 online sources.”

/Cotton
pianoman
"What Do Jimi Hendrix, Clapton,
Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Cher,
Hank Williams Jr, B.B. King,
Bonnie Raitt, Mick Jagger, Elvis,
Chuck Berry, Boz Scaggs and
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just click on the XML link at the top of each site..

education-guide.com
self-improvement-daily.com
winter-sports-news.com
etravel-guide.com
esoundings.com
women-daily.com
legal-daily.com
food-daily.com
fashion-daily.com
health-daily.com
politics-daily.com
software-daily.com
advertising-daily.com
realty-daily.com
home-improvement-daily.com
family-daily.com
movies-usa.net
investors-daily.net
auto-daily.com

Dave Kelly

thanks for the xml sources, dave

kudos for your fine sites - it looks like you've been busy using tools in effective ways.

do these articles originate on other domains, or are they in your db only?

/Cotton
pianoman
"What Do Jimi Hendrix, Clapton,
Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Cher,
Hank Williams Jr, B.B. King,
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Jeff

the content is a combination of press releases sent to me, articles sent to me, articles that have been placed in the public domain or where the author has given permission for the articles to be used..

Some of the content is unique, some appears on other sites..
but all of it is OK to use.

Dave

And Jason, I'm really sorry about that. I'm washing my fingers out with soap.

I'm never sure if I'm posting in the right
thread... whoever is in charge please move
my post if needed Hopefully this link
hasn't been posted on the forum yet....
I apologise if instead it has been posted
and I didn't see it

Here's a cool site I just found:
http://www.mouken.com/rss/carp/
Which is about CaRP, a Caching RSS Parser
(I wrote it but I'm not sure what that
means... LOL!)

There's so much stuff on that page that
somewhere there must be something useful
for bombers... one link for example goes
to: http://chordata.geckotribe.com/
"Your directory of quality RSS, Atom and
Info Bite feeds"... THIS I know can be
of some use to blogbomb users

There's also some info on how to automatically
generate customized Amazon.com Associates links
http://www.mouken.com/rss/carp/manual/example_amazon.php
I know there's a bomb for Amazon which
probably works better with other bombs,
but I still think this page can be useful
to someone

Then there's also something to Convert Web
Pages & News Searches to RSS: a tool called
Grouper: http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/grouper/

These are just a couple of sections I found
in less than 5 minutes browsing... if you find
anything else useful enough to be noted please
post it here (or in a more relevant thread

Hope this helps,
cheers,
Saul

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This is what I do

xml feed keyword

replace keyword with your keyword.

Tom

Thanks Tom I'll try that but Kurt posted a specfic way to find RSS pheeds on google.

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Jason D

Misread last post on page 1 and answered. My mistake.

John

Thanks Jason,

Great Tip! It sure DOES make a difference when searching for RSS feeds.

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

The reason for this is that Google's filetype search modifier (for non supported files, such as PDF Word Docs, Excel spreadsheets etc.) works on the file extension. Although it is unlikely that anyone would use the rss extension for anything other than an RSS file it is possible.

More importantly though is that most RSS feeds are auto generated by server side code and don't use an RSS extension.

.php .cgi .asp .pl etc are all more likely so that's why I prefer Yahoo's search over Google's for finding feeds as their advanced search works on the file content rather than file extension

Jason D

Who has the latest complete version that works ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
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I'm not sure which Newzbomb you're having trouble with. I saw a reference to Yahoo News on the other thread.

Check posts 96 & 97 on page 1 of this thread. Yahoo changed their format, which required some changes to the program. Edward was kind enough to post the fixes both as downloadable files and as instructions of what to change. One is for Rocket News and the other for Yahoo. Both of the files Edward posted are working for me. The Google one doesn't seem to be working right now, so they may have changed their format by now.

Jeff

Hello,

The txt file attachment says, find
"{(. ?). ?\s (. ?)(. ?). ?(. ?)}is"; but it does not say what to replace it with.

The second part was easy. Anyone know what has to be changed?

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Here's what Edward's instructions said (may have been in the forum and not in the attachment).

The instructions below worked fine for me.

Jeff

**************************************************************
Just fixed the Yahoo NewsBomb Script as well.

Open yahoonews2rss.php and Find:

$itemregexp = "{<li><a href=\"(<^\"> )\"><big>(. ?)</big></a>. ?</div>\s (. ?)<br><img}is";

and Replace with:

$itemregexp = "{<li><a. ?href=\"(<^\"> )\">(. ?)</a>. ?</div>(. ?)</li>}is";

also Find:

$data = strstr($data,"YAHOO! NEWS STORY MATCHES");

and Replace with:

$data = strstr($data,"<h2>NEWS SEARCH RESULTS");

That should do it

I can get Blogbomb to work with NEW feeds from daypop etc. but all my old feeds were from Newzbomb (yahoo and Allthe News etc.) and for some reason Newzbomb does not work.

I installed on a fresh new domain and same thing Newzbomb does not work.

Enter in a query and it just spins but never leaves the page??? Very odd.

I do not look forward to having to switch my yahoo news etc. to something else.

My provider says server has standard php and it is the script that is problem. I tried both versions - with curl and without.

Can someone help me???

http://www.vjvideo.com/newzbomb/yahoonews2rss.php

Also I tried replacing my category and cache files but get errors - I think because newzbomb iz not working. Very frustrating.

Best regards,

Mick

Did you check the "fix" in the post right above yours?

John

I have a version that works on my other server. It does not work on my new server. I searched for the code in my file you referred to and it is not in my page... besides it is not just yahoo but all the php pages that do not work.

I think it has to do with PHP ???

Frustrating.

Mick

You reuploaded to the new server. Permissions?

Also, I'd get the lastest Newsbomb, make the upgrade "fixes" and reinstall, if it were me.

John

The fixes are definitely a necessity.

Something else to look at is a couple of PHP settings - safe_mode and register_globals. Those settings could be different between your old and new server.

My bet based on your description of the problem is that register_globals is OFF on your new server, and ON on your old one, and that would be the likely cause of this problem.

Let's check this:

On your site, create a file called phpinfo.php - in that file put the following:

<?
phpinfo();
?>

Save the file, then let me know where it is. It will let me check the settings on your server. You can PM me the location if you want. I'd delete that file after we're done with it.

If it's a dedicated server that you control, it's easy enough to fix.

Jeff

That page that you see that starts with <xml is what you would add to Blogbomb. Just copy/paste the URL from your browser address bar into a Blogbomb channel.

I would advise against using that feed directly from voidstar.com . Bombers have similar scripts, I believe they are included with Blogbomb, and they're called newzbombs I think. I'd install them on your own domain.

In fact, if I were you, I'd get a cheap throw-away hosting account somewhere ($6/year at Dayanahost.com) and install them there if you're going to use them. Your feeds will then source from that account, and you can paste that URL into Blogbomb at your main domain(s).

Jeff

I've just started playing around with blogbomb
and have come across the follow feeds collections:

http://www.lights.com/weblogs/rssfeeds.html

http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/

Various government feeds -
http://www.rssgov.com/

http://www.search4rss.com/

Enjoy,

Barbt

Some of the RSS feeds I've discovered display
10 results (no more, no less). I've tried
appending things like "results=50" to no
avail. Are there any commonly-used tags
to generate more than 10 results?

Thanks!

-- barbt

The person/software generating the pheed control how many items per pheed, not the person on the receiving end.

If I only put two items in my pheed, there's no way you're going to get three or more, no matter what your setting is...

>The person/software generating the pheed control how many
>items per pheed, not the person on the receiving end.
>
>If I only put two items in my pheed, there's no way you're
>going to get three or more, no matter what your setting
>is...

Wah, that's the wrong answer. Well, it's the
right answer but the one I was hoping not to see!!

How then do you get around the problem of
only 10 items per blog feed? Include 18 or 39
feeds? etc.etc.etc.

Thanks!

-- barbt

You simply add enough pheeds to give you enough content for your project.

And/Or, you select resources that offer more than 10 items per pheed...Any of the RSS Bombs, or RSS.pheeds.com .

Hi,

What would be a good way to set up a sitemap for a site like this? Could you use AtlasBomb? Thanks.

Rich

Here's a new pheed from Netflix:

http://www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds?lnkctr=sbRssF

They have thousands of DVDs, so there's a lot of data there.

Rich

Thanks
Steve

Where's the link to more RSS resources? This is the Official Thread for RSS resources.

<a TARGET="_blank" href="{url}">{title}</a><br>
{description}<br> </br>

Hope this helps.

Kurt, BlogBomb is great. As to your question....
Reason I posted this here was because of your statement in the official threads. "BlogBomb - Bomb Xtreme - NewzBomb: How to use it and where to find feeds." So figured this was a "how to use it" question

Anyway, here is a feed to wired games:
http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,74,00.xml

another for about's Computer Action Games:
http://z.about.com/6/g/compactiongames/b/index.xml

Lunabean News:
http://www.lunabean.com/index.xml

I4U (games) Future Technology News:
http://www.i4u.com/i4u.xml

Thanks Rich, That was a nice feed at netflix.

Steve
"Still dombom'n away": http://gamespak.com

Steve

Steve

"Feedster's harnessing of RSS is changing search and the expectations of Internet searchers," said Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster. "We launched blogs.Feedster.com in response to user demand to offer blog search results separated from the news and e-commerce information in our system."

MORE:

http://blogs.feedster.com/
http://www.searchnewz.com/searchnewz-12-20041115FeedstersNewBlogSearchEnhancesRSSSearchService.html

/Cotton
skype: claycotton
http://www.claycotton.com

"Life's most persistent and urgent
question is, What are you doing
for others?" - Martin Luther King,
Jr.

http://www.sofotex.com/download/feeds.htm

software feed!

http://www.newsknowledge.com/ go to second link "Content Network" then scroll down to "Search sources"

If you use the newsknowledge service it's $40, but if you browse or search categories - they show all their sources which you can then add directly to blogbomb yourself.

Also I don't know whether this one has been mentioned.

http://www.waypath.com/directory/dmoz/dmoz.html

Brenda

More than once I have read that many bombers are starting to use Blogbomb more on their pages to get spidered more often.

It seems that the most feeds I am using now do not refresh daily.

What sites/rss feeds have you found (general topics) that give the freshest content?

Steve

When using a pheed search engine such as Daypop, you will have two search options:

Relevancy (default)
Date

If you want "fresh", you need to do a search BY DATE, then grab the rss url from that search.

If you chose relevancy, your pheeds will not update nearly as often.

Obviously, "By date" will list the newest pheeds first, which is what we need...

You can now use MSN Search for news AND search result pheeds. Bombs away!

Rich

All...A quick note, the RSS pheeds from MSN have this copyright notice contained in them:

With this said, I'm not sure how they can copyright others' news stories, but I'd guess the the "compilations/group of summaries" can be copyright protected.

Also, there is a point in US copyright law called being "set" which means a document has to be finished before it can get copyrights. The concept being, "How can you have copyright protection for something that will changed?"

With this said, getting sued by Microsoft's lawyers is something most of us may not want to risk...

It's pretty good and quick.

Chris

You can go to the flickr homepage and so a search by keyword, or you can just the word "blues" to your keyword(s):

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=blues&format=rss_200

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml

Thanks for that link.

Tom

But, I can't find it anywhere!

Can you please send me in the right direction...please?

Warm wishes,

Welcome to the Madbomber's forum - nice to see you here!

Are you thinking of Cherrybomb? That gets PPC results in XML format and displays them on your page as plain HTML. That's the only revenue-producing PPC feed I can think of that we've discussed here.

There are other revenue-producing feeds available, although they're not PPC. For example, Bo's Buy It Bomb turns merchant data feeds to RSS.

Jeff