If the thumbnail images are published as a part of the feed, then yes, you can get them back out through ReadFeed. The Action is designed to be completely flexible in the XML it accepts and the HTML it emits.
The key is to get a copy of the actual feed you want to use in raw XML, and look through the source of it to find the name of the tag they wrap the image with. On some photo blog feeds I have seen, it’s called enclosure, in others it is image.
Whatever you want to use, you then need to add the name of the tag in the elements field (that’s a comma-delimited string of variables that your template expects, in the order it expects them) and you have to add the proper markup in your template. So if your feed has an element that looks like this:
<image>
http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg
</image>
Then your template could look like this:
<a href="%s"><img src="%s" alt="%s" /></a>
And your elements would then read:
link, image, title
Assuming the RSS/XML was in a format that the parser could handle (RSS 1.0, some forms of Atom) then you should get a linked list of images out of it.
Walter
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:51 PM, PeterH wrote:
Once again I’m waaay out of my depth here, but I have to ask the question - can Read Feed be configured to read thumbnails of a blog?
Sorry, it’s blogger again and I know that could be a challenge, but what I’d like to do is achieve something like the output on my test page:
http://tinyurl.com/7g8aaal
(The error message on the right is my …first attempt… at getting the ReadFeed Action working. The working feed on the left (for those who can’t read) is a freebie from RSSInclude.com, and in the pad version is editable, and exactly what I’m looking for, except that I’d like to control it from my side, and of course there’s the annual fee!
So is it possible, or do I resume my search?
cheers,
P
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