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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Get URL from Newsfeed (full article)

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    • S Offline
      Sennahoj82
      last edited by

      How do I get the url of the full article of the shown newsfeed?
      With

      var title = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].title;
      

      I get the headline of the newsfeed.

      With

      var description = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].description;
      

      I get the description of the newsfeed.

      But

      var url = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].url;
      

      does not show anything.

      With this URL I want to open the full article of the newsfeed. What do I wrong?

      Greetings from Thuringia/Germany

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      • yawnsY Offline
        yawns Moderator
        last edited by

        Which newsfeed are you using? Did you open your newsfeed in a browser to see if there is an entry with url or link?

        fetcher.js does this:

        var url = item.url || item.link || "";
        

        So if you use the default news feed http://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml you see there is an entry link as a child node of item. Maybe your newsfeed uses something other than url or link?

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          Sennahoj82
          last edited by

          Hi yawns.

          I am using these newsfeeds http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2 and https://thib24.de/feed.
          I see no difference between the default newsfeed and my.

          So I myself have tried the default newsfeed and it also won’t work.

          If I put out the url to log information

          var url = this.newsitems[this.activeItem].url;
          Log.info("Article_URL " + url);
          

          the browser provide this information: Article_URL undefined.

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            Sennahoj82
            last edited by

            Ok.

            I’ve solved the problem. There wasn’t a url decleration in my fetcher.js.
            I put it in to the fetcher.js an it works very well now.
            Thanks for your help.

            Great forum.

            Greetings from Thuringia/Germany

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