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Question

Feedly RSS feed isn't displaying full HTML when used in my Zap.

  • 20 October 2023
  • 6 replies
  • 146 views
M
Userlevel 1

Hi

My Feedly Boards > Zapier RSS Feeds are not coming out properly in full html

 

This is the RSS url that Zapier gives me 

https://zapier.com/engine/rss/12061419/Auckland

 

to create that Feed I’m using This trigger “Trigger when a new article is added to a Feedly board” (Event: new article in Feedy Board)

 

Trigger: comes ffrom this feedly board https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Ff%2FFgESETvFHRjqb9nzqhPZ5LoS

 

And this is the result that I get when I import this RSS to my site:

https://ddnz.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=165

 

This is how it should look https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/133146417/eight-promoters-pitch-plans-for-a-major-stadium-in-auckland

This could be a setting I don’t know about, or it could be some problem in generating the RSS.

Do you have any ideas on how to fix this?

 

 

 

6 replies

ken.a
Userlevel 7
Badge +6

Hi there @Marknz,

Unfortunately, I couldn’t access the links that you have sent. Could you please send it as a screenshot instead?

Also, I’m curious about how your RSS by Zapier action is set up. Could you also send a screenshot of that as well? Preferably the “Action” section that shows all of its fields of the RSS by Zapier action. Like so:

46dd6c0979e3d815d621b8da43084ef1.png
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Please don't include personal information in the screenshot, or be sure blur out any personal information.

Thanks! 😊

M
Userlevel 1

This is the zap settings

 

This is how is should look

 

This is how it does look

 

 

M
Userlevel 1

Any update on this @ken.a ?

SamB
Rank
Userlevel 7
Badge +11

Hi @Marknz! 👋

I wonder if it may it expecting to just receive HTML formatting tags and not tags like <DOCTYPE>, <HTML> or <BODY> etc. 
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To test that theory can you copy and paste in the text for the article into the Content field but not include any <DOCTYPE>, <HTML> or <BODY> HTML tags. Tags like <p> and <a> are fine to leave in there. Then test that RSS by Zapier action again to see if that then displays the article content correctly?

Looking forward to hearing how that goes!

M
Userlevel 1

https://zapier.com/engine/rss/12061419/Auckland

Ok I tried that here in the above url, I put the text below into the Content Box in Zapier and got the above output so does that mean that your engine isnt quite taking out all the extra stuff that it should from the Content box?

 

Content

Eight promoters pitch plans for a major stadium in Auckland Todd Niall09:42, Oct 19 2023 SUPPLIED A massive redevelopment of Eden Park has been proposed, including a new roof for the stadium. (Video from April 2023) Eight private developers have pitched plans for a major stadium in Auckland, in a quickie process …..

 

 

SamB
Rank
Userlevel 7
Badge +11

Thanks for giving that a try @Marknz. Can you confirm whether image appeared correctly for that test?

As far as I know the Create Item in Feed action isn’t designed to remove any unnecessary HTML from the content that’s entered into the Content field. It would just take whatever is entered into the field and use that as the content. 

Hmm, I think you might be able to get around this by running the content through a couple of Formatter actions. Here’s what I’m thinking: 

  • To start, you’d need a Formatter (Text > Convert HTML to Markdown) action. Here you’d take the text from the Feedly trigger and convert it to use Markdown formatting instead of HTML. That should remove any non-formatting related HTML tags.
  • Then you’d follow that up with a Formatter (Text > Convert Markdown to HTML) action which takes the text that’s been formatted with Markdown and adds the relevant HTML formatting tags back in.
  • Then in your Create Item in Feed action you’d select the reformatted HTML that’s output by the second Formatter action.


Can you give that a try and let us know if that does the trick? Happy to assist further if you run into any issues on that! 🙂

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