Can't get RSS feeds to work with Google Profile

havanese · April 22, 2009

I am trying to attach my smugmug recent photos RSS to my google profile

http://www.google.com/profiles/randypollock

When I provide the link it says that it sees the feed, but when you try and view the profile page it says there is an error with the feed.

Anyone using Google have their profile page working with Smug?

Bill Curnow · April 22, 2009

I've tried, but like you I haven't had any success in adding one of my SmugMug feeds to my Google Profile.

havanese · April 22, 2009

I haven't asked the help desk, maybe one of them could post here about why it doesn't work.

Andy · April 22, 2009

What is google profile? I use SmugMug feeds in Google reader, no problem...

havanese · April 22, 2009

Andy wrote:

What is google profile? I use SmugMug feeds in Google reader, no problem...

A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. You have control over what others see. Your profile won't display any private information unless you've explicitly added it.

I use it to let people see all my websites, social networks, pictures (if I can get it to work) and shared google reader articles

Andy · April 22, 2009

OK And what rss feed are you using? Paste it here pls thx.

havanese · April 22, 2009

Andy wrote:

OK And what rss feed are you using? Paste it here pls thx.

Recent photos:

http://randyandgerri.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=randyandgerri&format=rss200

havanese · April 23, 2009

Any idea why that feed isn't work?

Andy · April 23, 2009

havanese wrote:

Any idea why that feed isn't work?

Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.

havanese · April 23, 2009

Andy wrote:

Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.

Thanks Andy, I'll make myself a note to try it again in a week or two and post back the results.

Andy · April 23, 2009

havanese wrote:

Thanks Andy, I'll make myself a note to try it again in a week or two and post back the results.

Or, you could subscribe to our release-notes feed in your favorite feed reader

havanese · April 23, 2009

Andy wrote:

Or, you could subscribe to our release-notes feed in your favorite feed reader

Added to my google reader.. learn something new everyday

glecko · April 23, 2009

Andy wrote:

Yup. It was a bug on our end, fixed internally and on our dev/test servers but not live. We'll have it live within the next week or so I hope.

Thanks.

Rockin' thanks Andy - how does one find out when stuff like that is updated? Is there a thread/blog/twitter/facebook update? Thanks!

havanese · April 23, 2009

glecko wrote:

Rockin' thanks Andy - how does one find out when stuff like that is updated? Is there a thread/blog/twitter/facebook update? Thanks!

Just go here and add the RSS feed to your favorite reader

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/

glecko · April 24, 2009

Thanks

havanese · May 1, 2009

Have not seen any updates about this in release notes, has there been an issue that prevented it from coming off the test servers?

bwg · May 1, 2009

havanese wrote:

Have not seen any updates about this in release notes, has there been an issue that prevented it from coming off the test servers?

Turns out the bug we fixed wasn't what was preventing Google profiles from reading the feed. We're talking with Google trying to figure it out.

havanese · May 1, 2009

Thanks for the update. I have gotten positive feedback from my clients and friends when they can see my signature line in emails now using the google profiles as they see all my contact info, social networks, websites, etc...

Once this error gets fixed I can turn it on as well.

fredjclaus · May 1, 2009

This also works.

The administrator may have enabled RSS syndication, this allows you to view newly created threads in guest viewable forums without visiting the board.
The feeds are currently provided in two formats, RSS and RSS v2. The differences are as follows:

RSS 0.91 - This feed is based on a standard written by netscape and provides a link and the title of the thread.
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss
RSS 2.0 - This feed contains title, author, date and the contents of the first post of the thread.
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss2

To add this to MyYahoo click here.
The forums to which this applies can also be limited to specific guest viewable forums by adding another paramater to the URL containing the forumids as follows:
http://www.dgrin.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123

If you would like the content to be generated for multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

havanese · May 1, 2009

fredjclaus wrote:

This also works.

The administrator ... multiple forums you can seperate the forumids by commas.

I have no idea what this has to do with the question of this post.

RSS feeds for recent pictures does not work in Google Profiles

havanese · May 6, 2009

Gave up and added my flickr account to the profile.

(kind of disappointed)

Andy · May 6, 2009

havanese wrote:

(kind of disappointed)

I'm sorry

But we're putting our feed out properly, according to our engineers. We'll keep trying!

mbrady · May 6, 2009

I'm somewhat inclined to think Google is expecting something a little funny, but I can't say for sure. After all, Smugmug RSS feeds work perfectly fine in Google Reader, but that same RSS feed gets an error from Google Profile. When you put in the feed URL, it says it found a feed, but when you go to the profile page, in the spot where the pictures should show up, it just says "Photo feed error -- please check your photo source URL.", which isn't very helpful.

havanese · May 7, 2009

mbrady wrote:

I'm somewhat inclined to think Google is expecting something a little funny, but I can't say for sure. After all, Smugmug RSS feeds work perfectly fine in Google Reader, but that same RSS feed gets an error from Google Profile. When you put in the feed URL, it says it found a feed, but when you go to the profile page, in the spot where the pictures should show up, it just says "Photo feed error -- please check your photo source URL.", which isn't very helpful.

Same issue here, I do have all the RSS feeds working in Google Reader.

Makes you wonder what is different between flickr RSS and SM RSS.

I'm not smart enough about RSS to figure that one out

rainforest1155 · May 14, 2009

ignore my reply. I was referring to Google Reader. Never heard of Google Profile before.

Sebastian

RogersDA · May 14, 2009

rainforest1155 wrote:

Try removing and re-adding your feeds. I remember having heard that this issue is fixed, but to get Google reader to update, you need to remove and resubscribe to it. But then, it might be a different issue.

If that doesn't help, did you give the Atom feeds a try instead of using RSS?

Sebastian

I have added/removed/replaced the RSS and Atom feeds in Google to no avail.

Perhaps merging this thread into this one, too? Same issue...

Comfort · May 23, 2009

Photo RSS feed on Google Profiles does not like SM feeds
Hi guys,

I have a Google Profile (http://www.google.com/profiles/glennbatten) and one of the features is a photo feed from either Picasa, Flickr or a custom solution where you insert your rss feed. No matter which feed I insert google will not read the rss feed and comes up with an error.

Does anybody know a solution or workaround?

dotvicky · May 25, 2009

FWIW, I'm also having problems reading the rss feed in Outlook 2007 and as a feed into Livejournal Syndication so I think it *is* something at SmugMug end.

Cheers
Vicky

Andy · May 25, 2009

dotvicky wrote:

FWIW, I'm also having problems reading the rss feed in Outlook 2007 and as a feed into Livejournal Syndication so I think it *is* something at SmugMug end.

Cheers
Vicky

Handling in your other thread- double posting not necessary.

Wyld · June 30, 2009

Andy wrote:

I'm sorry But we're putting our feed out properly, according to our engineers. We'll keep trying!

Looks like they are grabbing the feed server-side as there's no request from the browser to smugmug (monitoring this via Fiddler)

Even so, could Google be looking for a crossdomain.xml or trying to honor some other permission granting policy (robots.txt, etc.) ?

havanese · June 30, 2009

Wyld wrote:

Looks like they are grabbing the feed server-side as there's no request from the browser to smugmug (monitoring this via Fiddler)

Even so, could Google be looking for a crossdomain.xml or trying to honor some other permission granting policy (robots.txt, etc.) ?

Maybe your suggestions can get SM to look at the problem again. I gave up, but would still like to see this corrected so I could use SM on my profile

Can't get RSS feeds to work with Google Profile

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