Excerpt filters and feedburner.

[Lech]

Any ideas on this one yet?

On 6/13/08, Lech <unattended at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/08, Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote:
>   > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Lech <unattended at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >  > On 6/13/08, Sam Ruby <rubys at intertwingly.net> wrote:
>   >  >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Lech <unattended at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >  >>  > So I'm still trying to wrap my head around python a bit but have
>   >  >>  > managed to dig around and get some of the filters working after
>   >  >>  > looking through the examples (why are some of these in the /examples/
>   >  >>  > directory?). The only two I'm having issues with at the moment are SED
>   >  >>  > and Excerpt filters.
>   >  >>
>   >  >> Not all of the filters were created by the same person, so there may
>   >  >>  not always be consistency in where they were placed.  The example
>   >  >>  filters tend not to be ones that can be used "as is" but require
>   >  >>  tailoring.
>   >  >
>   >  > Ahh, alright. I was just curious why they were split up. Initially it
>   >  > seems like they serve as some type of secondary (don't move these or
>   >  > you'll destroy the world) type of filters. Maybe just moving them into
>   >  > the main filters directory and sticking a readme file warning of
>   >  > needed tweaking would clear this up in the future. No big deal though.
>   >  >
>   >  >>  > From what I can tell, the SED filters are pretty straight forward
>   >  >>  > regexp. However it seems that the regexp used is a bit outdated for
>   >  >>  > the feedburner advert filter and I can't seem to be able to scrub the
>   >  >>  > "digg this" and other images properly out of feeds. I'll play around
>   >  >>  > with this a little more on my own, but if anyone already has a
>   >  >>  > solution an update would be awesome.
>   >  >>
>   >  >> Example feed with the data you want scrubbed?
>   >  >
>   >  > I've been toying around and attempting to scrub the "feedflare" (digg
>   >  > this/reddit) adverts from a friends feedburner feed located here:
>   >  > http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bdetails using the feedburner.sed filter.
>   >  > I've tried a number of methods but nothing seems to work.
>   >
>   >
>   > One thing that may not be obvious is that filters are run on the
>   >  sanitized version of the feed.
>   >
>   >  You can see what the entries look like by either looking in your cache
>   >  directory or by running a test program provided with Venus:
>   >
>   >  python tests/reconstitute.py http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bdetails
>   >
>   >  At the moment, I'm puzzled as I don't see the feedflare information in
>   >  the output of that program, and don't recall anything I did on my
>   >  installation which would make it automatically get removed.  I will
>   >  continue to look at this.
>
>
>  Alright, that is very strange indeed. I reconstituted the feed as
>   prescribed on this end, and you're right. The feedflare doesn't show
>   up anywhere so that confirms what you're seeing. But if you do a
>   view-source: in your browser of the feed it displays as
>   <feedburner:feedFlare href="..." src="..."">advert
>   text</feedburner:feedFlare> which then somehow translates into
>
>   <div class="feedflare">
>   <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/user?a=gArBG"><img border="0"
>   src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Bdetails?i=gArBG"/></a>
>   [...]
>   </div>
>
>   Which all winds back up in the final output as seen above. And if you
>   look at the cache objects for items you know to be pulled from
>   feedburner you'll see the same. It's making it hard to intercept this
>   particular markup.
>
>
>   >
>   >  >>  > Also, how exactly do I utilize and properly the excerpt.py filter
>   >  >>  > within my configs to strip images down?
>   >  >>
>   >  >> Add something like the following to your config.ini:
>   >  >>
>   >  >>  http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/tests/data/filter/excerpt-images.ini
>   >  >>
>   >  >>  And then try the 'mobile' theme provided with Venus as a starting point.
>   >  >
>   >  > Hmm, odd. I've been using a copy of the classic_fancy theme and have
>   >  > exactly that in my config but it's not working as expected either. :F
>   >  > and debug isn't showing me anything out of the ordinary when I run
>   >  > Venus.
>   >
>   >
>   > What the excerpt filter does is put the data into the cached copy of
>   >  the feed, and by default it does so by putting this into a new element
>   >  which htmltmpl type templates don't know how to look for.  You can
>   >  specify a 'target=atom:content' parameter to excerpt which will cause
>   >  it to overwrite the content of the entry and htmltmpl style templates
>   >  do know how to pick that element up.
>
>
>  OK, so does this mean I need to also modify the htmltmpl template to
>   expect this parameter, or once the target is specified it will detect
>   everything without any changes? I'm starting to wonder if the SED
>   issue might also revolve around using htmltmpl templates which
>   probably means I should have first tried using the mobile theme. Is
>   there also any target list available out there for me to mess around
>   with?
>
>
>   -L
>