My feed wont populate

[cperryoh]

I have been messing around with my lovelace and I can't get it to work Here is what the card looks like:

Here is my yaml for that card

type: 'custom:list-card'
entity: sensor.news
title: News feed
feed_attribute: entries
columns:
  - title: ''
    type: image
    add_link: link
    field: image
  - title: Title
    field: title
    style:
      - white-space: nowrap
  - title: Description
    field: description

Here is my config for feedparser:

sensor:
  - platform: feedparser
    name: news
    feed_url: 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss'
    date_format: '%a, %b %d %I:%M %p'
    inclusions:
        - title
        - link
        - description
        - image
        - language
        - pubDate

[iantrich]

Card config fmdoesnt matter if your sensor is not being populated. Is there data in the feedparser sensor if you look in the Developer Toola > States?

[cperryoh]

There is

[iantrich]

So each entry only has title and link, so that's the only fields you can use in the card

[cperryoh]

I got it to populate but the images for each story are just the hassio icon. I've tried multiple news feeds and it's the same issue.

type: 'custom:list-card'
entity: sensor.gamingnews
title: News
feed_attribute: entries
columns:
  - title: Image
    type: image
    add_link: link
    field: image
  - title: Title
    field: title

[cperryoh]

or this

[iantrich]

Well is there an image in the feed? Looked like a link to the story itself

[cperryoh]

Yes there is

I'll take this top story for example:

Here is what the feedparser lists as the image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?d=yIl2AUoC8zA

Here is the actual article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/us/coronavirus-vaccines-variants-return-to-normal/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

Do you by chance have a feed that you know works with images that I can try out?

[cecheto]

Hi, Maybe this could help. I was experiencing the same issues as you had and I did the following: Remove inclusions and exclusions and let de feeder fetch al the value. To my surprise the description field in the xml was beed imported as "summary". Also noticed that the image was not been feeded.

[cperryoh]

Remove inclusions and exclusions and let de feeder fetch al the value.

I don't know if this is exactly what you meant but I blew away all inclusions and exclusions and now my feed won't populate. Maybe I misunderstood.

Here is the state of the parser:

Here is my config:

  - platform: feedparser
    name: news
    feed_url: 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss'
    date_format: '%a, %b %d %I:%M %p'

And my Lovelace end looks like this:

[cecheto]

After doing some extra research I found that there are two problems:

1.- There are no images (at least article related images) inside the feed. The only solution I can see is modifying the feeder to search for images following the link. I am trying to do this, I will keep you updated.

2.- But also, the feed explorer does not support multiline images and the small images that appear on the feed are written across multiple lines. This can be solved bi adding a re.DOTALL as de last parameter of the re.findall function on line 95. But again the only images there are in the feed are the ones shown in your post.

Line 95: images = re.findall(r"<img.+?src=\"(.+?)\".+?>", entry['summary'], re.DOTALL)

[cperryoh]

That is a gross solution (Not your fault, just overall a lot of work). Do you know of a feed that works with this card that I can use without jumping through hoops?

[cecheto]

This is what you search for?

[cecheto]

This is how I did it, first the sensor:

sensor:
  - platform: feedparser
    name: news
    feed_url: 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss'   
    date_format: '%a, %b %d %I:%M %p'
    show_topn: 10
    inclusions:
      - title
      - link
      - linkimage

I only take 10 news because mi connection is slow and it has to load all the selected news.

Now the card:

entity: sensor.news
title: News feed
feed_attribute: entries
columns:
  - title: ''
    type: image
    add_link: link
    field: linkimage
    width: 126
  - title: Title
    field: title

Finally the code added at line 99:

                if 'linkimage' in self._inclusions and 'linkimage' not in entryValue.keys():
                    images = []
                    if 'link' in entry.keys():
                        req = Request(entry['link'])
                        html_page = urlopen(req)
                        images = re.findall(r"<img.+?src=\"(.+?)\".+?>", html_page.read().decode('utf-8'), re.DOTALL) 
                    if images:
                        entryValue['linkimage'] = images[0]

I know it is not nice. But you can not do it with just the feed you want. The image information is not there. I can not think of any other way of getting an image for then entities of the feed since there is no image in it.

[Romkabouter]

Hi, Maybe this could help. I was experiencing the same issues as you had and I did the following: Remove inclusions and exclusions and let de feeder fetch al the value. To my surprise the description field in the xml was beed imported as "summary". Also noticed that the image was not been feeded.

I had exactly the same, description was in the feed but somehow renamed to summary