BBC News feed

[TamP]

I cant seem to find an up to date BBC news feed
Min is showing news from 3 years ago !!!
Can anyone help ?

[Mykle1]

@TamP

There are a bunch on this page. I tested the first one and it fired right up.
https://blog.feedspot.com/bbc_rss_feeds/

Copy the RSS Feed url of your choice and add it to your config…

[TamP]

Thanks for that, I have it displayed now, except the title is not showing. This is what I have in the config

// Newsfeed BBC
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "BBC UK",
					 	url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml"
					},

					{
						title: "BBC World",
					    url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml",
					},

				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: false,
				showDescription: true
			}
		},
	]

};

[Mykle1]

@TamP said in BBC News feed:

the title is not showing.

That’s odd. I can’t make the title go away. Even with all three of these set to false:

showSourceTitle: false,
showPublishDate: false,
showDescription: false

[TamP]

Yes isnt it. I try this and it didnt seem to do anything
Its not a big deal but I just wonder if I had done something wrong

[justjim1220]

there is an omission in the newsfeed.js file, that is causing this problem…

this secton:

if(!this.config.showFullArticle){
        var title = document.createElement("div");
	title.className = "bright medium light" + (!this.config.wrapTitle ? " no-wrap" : "");
	title.innerHTML = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].title;
	wrapper.appendChild(title);
}

states if(!this.config.showFullArticle){

But there isn’t a showFullArticle: false; in 'defaults

So, basically it is ignoring the showSourceTitle: true, because this section cannot be executed

I think it would make more sense to have the above code snippet be worded like this:

if(this.config.showSourceTitle){
        var title = document.createElement("div");
	title.className = "bright medium light" + (!this.config.wrapTitle ? " no-wrap" : "");
	title.innerHTML = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].title;
	wrapper.appendChild(title);
}

then maybe add:

showSourceTitle = false;

to this section of code:

if (this.config.showFullArticle) {
	var fullArticle = document.createElement("iframe");
	fullArticle.className = "";
	fullArticle.style.width = "100vw";
	// very large height value to allow scrolling
	fullArticle.height = "3000";
	fullArticle.style.height = "3000";
	fullArticle.style.top = "0";
	fullArticle.style.left = "0";
	fullArticle.style.border = "none";
	fullArticle.src = this.getActiveItemURL()
	fullArticle.style.zIndex = 1;
	wrapper.appendChild(fullArticle);
}

if you don’t want the title to display while the article is being displayed.

[TamP]

@justjim1220 I tried altering the code as you suggest but unfortunately I am still not seeing the BBC title

[TamP]

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[justjim1220]

@TamP

you might try deleting the module then reinstalling it

I just tried exactly what you have configured and it works just fine…

Since newsfeed is a part of the initial MM2 installation, go here: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/master/modules/default/newsfeed
and get the newsfeed files themselves. You probably only need the actual js files: fetcher.js & newsfeed.js
right click on the file and click Save Link As… then save to your newsfeed directory within MM2

[TamP]

@justjim1220 Yes that is what I did and all is OK
Thanks again