| How to save WordPress RSS Feed to a File?
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ispreview
msg:4424740 | 5:10 pm on Mar 4, 2012 (gmt 0) |
As per the topic title, I actually want to do two things but we'll start with the first. Essentially I want to save my RSS feed output..
http://www.mysite.co.uk/index.php/feed
(I also tried with the following url - both work when you use them in a browser)
http://www.mysite.co.uk/index.php?feed=rss
..to a static file like feed.xml or feed.txt. I tried CURL, which works with all my other PHP systems for similar tasks, but something about WP prevents it from working.
<?php
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$returned_content = get_data('http://www.mysite.co.uk/index.php?feed=rss');
echo $returned_content;
$fp = fopen("feed.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $returned_content);
fclose($fp);
?>
Likewise when I try to rewrite (htaccess) any WP URL (this happens regardless of whether I use WP's pathinfo or mod_rewrite solution for pretty URLs) to another, such as telling requests for "/feed.xml" to pull their data from "/index.php/feed" .. it also fails but produces a 404 (note that WP's feed links do actually work).
I think I tried some like this:
RewriteRule ^meow\.xml$ index\.php?feed=rss [QSA,L]
and also tried
RewriteRule ^meow.xml(/?)+$ index.php?feed=rss [QSA,L]
No dice. I don't have any WP code in my ROOT htaccess because I'm using Pathinfo.
Any ideas on either or those two problems?
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ispreview
msg:4424980 | 9:48 am on Mar 5, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I had some sucess with this:
RewriteRule ^news\.xml$ /index.php?feed=rss2 [L]
That makes mysite.co.uk/rss2.xml work but if I put that into mysite.co.uk/news/rss2.xml (as below) then it returns one of WP's "this is not a valid feed template" errors.
RewriteRule ^news/rss2.xml$ index.php?feed=rss2
How can I get around this?
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iamzippy
msg:4427582 | 6:43 pm on Mar 10, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Are we talking here about a server making an http connection to itself?
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londrum
msg:4427590 | 7:25 pm on Mar 10, 2012 (gmt 0) |
you could try recreating the feed yourself, which is pretty easy. all you've got to do is put a new function inside the functions.php file (in the same directory as your theme)
then you could output the results as a simple .txt file, or you could save the output to a buffer and then store it as a file on your server -- bypassing CURL completely. you've just got to include whatever you want inside the function and wordpress will take care of the rest.
here is a little example of how you can create a feed.
function NAME_OF_YOUR_FEED() {
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset='.get_option('blog_charset'), true);
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
echo '<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">';
echo '<channel>';
<title>Title</title>
<link>http://www.example.com/?feed=NAME_OF_YOUR_FEED</link>
<atom:link href="http://www.example.com/?feed=NAME_OF_YOUR_FEED" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
// build the feed here with a loop, using query_posts(), or whatever
echo '</channel>';
echo '</rss>'; }
add_feed('NAME_OF_YOUR_FEED','NAME_OF_YOUR_FEED');
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