Hi all,
I'm trying to connect my Pintrest account with an RSS feed, but I can't seem to figure out how to add the article image url.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance,
Balazs
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How to add an article image url for Pintrest?
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Basically if the image is in the RSS feed it would be linked to in the Raw Encoded variable. You'd need to find it (I recommend adding a step for Sheets by Google and creating a new row in a spreadsheet with the Raw Encoded as the contents of the row. -- this will allow you to see the full HTML of the Raw Encoded)
Typically you'll find the image like this: if you can find that HTML which starts with <img has the URL of the image and has a class or an id that is unique (or is inside a <div> or a <span> with a unique class or id then you can capture the URL of the image to be used in pinterest etc.
There's multiple steps within formatter that you can use to make this happen. It all depends on the HTML and what you can split on/key off from etc. If the HTML of the <img> tag for pinterest were similar to the above here's the formatter steps I would use:
Formatter : Text : Split Text And choose the class="pinterest or whatever matches right in front of the src= where it's just the image you're wanting in the second value
And you'll see that I grab the "Second" as the Segment Index. I want everything in the Raw Encoded after my "Separator" This produces:
Formatter : Text : Extract URL Use the output from the previous step and it will grab only the URL of the Image for Pinterest.
You now have the URL of the pinterest image (depending on what you split the Raw Encoded on) and you can use it in other steps.
Hopefully that is clear enough to follow.
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@AndrewJDavison_Luhhu - Hi! Other way around. I want an RSS feed to go to my Pinterest, but the built in RSS by Zapier app doesn't give me an option to an image url, which is mandatory. Pining the same image with different articles it's pointless. I hope this makes sense.
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It's not up to Zapier whether an image URL is included in the data it gets back when it triggers on a new RSS items - it's dependent on whether your RSS feed includes an image URL.
I'm assuming it probably does, but it might well be buried along with other data.
Could you give a sample of the data you get back when you pull in a test RSS item in the zap editor.
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So, yes
I've had this issue before with another client, so solve it we had to to use another API where Zapier sent it the article URL (which you do get from the RSS feed, and it sends back the image URL) - you'd achieve it via a webhook step in your zap.
This is the API we used:
https://aylien.com/text-api/article-extraction/
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Basically if the image is in the RSS feed it would be linked to in the Raw Encoded variable. You'd need to find it (I recommend adding a step for Sheets by Google and creating a new row in a spreadsheet with the Raw Encoded as the contents of the row. -- this will allow you to see the full HTML of the Raw Encoded)
Typically you'll find the image like this: if you can find that HTML which starts with <img has the URL of the image and has a class or an id that is unique (or is inside a <div> or a <span> with a unique class or id then you can capture the URL of the image to be used in pinterest etc.
There's multiple steps within formatter that you can use to make this happen. It all depends on the HTML and what you can split on/key off from etc. If the HTML of the <img> tag for pinterest were similar to the above here's the formatter steps I would use:
Formatter : Text : Split Text And choose the class="pinterest or whatever matches right in front of the src= where it's just the image you're wanting in the second value
And you'll see that I grab the "Second" as the Segment Index. I want everything in the Raw Encoded after my "Separator" This produces:
Formatter : Text : Extract URL Use the output from the previous step and it will grab only the URL of the Image for Pinterest.
You now have the URL of the pinterest image (depending on what you split the Raw Encoded on) and you can use it in other steps.
Hopefully that is clear enough to follow.
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@PaulKortman Hi! I really appreciate the detailed explanation, however, I'm having trouble decoding it into my needs. Would it be possible to explain to me in detail using this example?
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