martinrotter
commented
2 weeks ago Hi so I did my reseearch and RSS Guard itself is not to blame here.
You do not see/get image attachments simply because the relevant feed does not provide them.
Here is excerpt from "feed/subreddit .rss"
<entry>
<author>
<name>/u/Princess_Place</name>
<uri>https://www.reddit.com/user/Princess_Place</uri>
</author>
<category term="nsfw" label="r/nsfw" />
<content type="html"><table> <tr><td> <a
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nsfw/comments/1gjcgrs/late_creampie/"> <img
src="https://external-preview.redd.it/twdz3pSSsLIZcpHh9ULn_rSnQ7LF-KCXJZw_UHKkYxA.jpg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=1309fbc0adb43e353d74417e00369ca01a99479c"
alt="Late creampie" title="Late creampie" /> </a>
</td><td> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a
href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Princess_Place"> /u/Princess_Place </a>
<br/> <span><a
href="https://www.redgifs.com/watch/loyaltrickycoelacanth">[link]</a></span>
&#32; <span><a
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nsfw/comments/1gjcgrs/late_creampie/">[comments]</a></span>
</td></tr></table></content>
<id>t3_1gjcgrs</id>
<media:thumbnail
url="https://external-preview.redd.it/twdz3pSSsLIZcpHh9ULn_rSnQ7LF-KCXJZw_UHKkYxA.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1309fbc0adb43e353d74417e00369ca01a99479c" />
<link href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nsfw/comments/1gjcgrs/late_creampie/" />
<updated>2024-11-04T11:56:10+00:00</updated>
<published>2024-11-04T11:56:10+00:00</published>
<title>Late creampie</title>
</entry>And here is excerpt from "search .rss"
<entry>
<author>
<name>/u/SinfulSuccubus420</name>
<uri>https://www.reddit.com/user/SinfulSuccubus420</uri>
</author>
<category term="ChubbyStonerChickz" label="r/ChubbyStonerChickz" />
<content type="html">
&#32; submitted by &#32; <a
href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SinfulSuccubus420"> /u/SinfulSuccubus420
</a> &#32; to &#32; <a
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChubbyStonerChickz/"> r/ChubbyStonerChickz
</a> <br/> <span><a
href="https://i.redd.it/t5swmf0l4vyd1.jpeg">[link]</a></span>
&#32; <span><a
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChubbyStonerChickz/comments/1gjb85w/i_identify_as_a_potato_because_i_like_to_be_baked/">[comments]</a></span></content>
<id>t3_1gjb85w</id>
<link
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChubbyStonerChickz/comments/1gjb85w/i_identify_as_a_potato_because_i_like_to_be_baked/" />
<updated>2024-11-04T10:34:10+00:00</updated>
<published>2024-11-04T10:34:10+00:00</published>
<title>I identify as a potato because I like to be baked and smashed😈🥵</title>
</entry>Both these entries do have "picture" when viewer directly on Reddit website in web browser, but Reddit (for some reason, don't know why) only provides "attachment" for the entries from RSS generated from subreddits (not from searches).
See, the subreddit RSS sample entry above includes media:thumbnail XML element which is the element which contains hyperlink to the actual attachment. The other entry does not, thus cannot be parsed/displayed accordingly in RSS Guard.
l5oukz89
Brief description of the issue
RSS Guard not grabbing Attachments (pictures, videos etc.) for Reddit when trying to Get results of Search Queries Conditioned by NSFW Contents.
("self:false" parameter will enforce only posts with attachments)
I have logged into my account through the RSS Guard internal browser, so RSS Guard has the cookies of my account and my credentials.
Now please bear with me,
URL (#1) : [https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=potatoes nsfw:yes self:false&sort=new&t=all]
Screenshot of URL #1 (internal browser) :
URL (#2) : [https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=potatoes nsfw:yes self:false&include_over_18=on&sort=new&t=all]
Screenshot of URL # 2 (internal browser) :
both of these URLs into the internal browser give identical results yet the difference is that URL#2 has "include_over_18=on" parameter.
Now when we transform these into RSS by adding ".rss" just before the "?"
URL (RSS1) : [https://www.reddit.com/search/.rss?q=potatoes nsfw:yes self:false&sort=new&t=all]
URL (RSS2) : [https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=potatoes nsfw:yes self:false&include_over_18=on&sort=new&t=all]
The Results are different :
URL (RSS1) returns (Internal browser) :
URL (RSS2) returns (Internal browser) :
We noticed that URL#2 which does include the "include_over_18=on" parameter retrieves the posts and seems to be working "normally" whereas URL#1 which doesn't include the "include_over_18=on" doesn't seem to be working.
---> So from that we can conclude that adding the "include_over_18=on" parameter is the "game changer" to fetch reddit search queries that are "nsfw".
Now, bear with me, again,
we'll soon get to the point, but all these are definitely necessary infos as background / context to understand the "bug" following section :
So now let's move to the feed to configure these 2 URLs :
URL #1 :
URL #2 :
As you can see,
URL#1 didn't fetch any articles, whereas URL#2 did fetch the articles BUT as you can notice there is nothing in the "attachments" column and neither in the "has enclosures" column.
---> Proving that indeed, "include_over_18=on" is the right syntax to fetch nsfw queries.
---> But the MAIN problem that remains is that it's not fetching the attachments of the articles.
Now as a proof that fetching feeds with attachments works fine, here is an example of a nsfw feed which contains medias in posts (pictures, videos etc.).
Let's use r/nsfw subreddit (as an example purpose) which is filled with lots of posts containing attachments (pictures, videos etc.)
adding the r/nsfw feed into RSS Guard :
Fetching the results from that feed :
Selection of Article #1 from that feed :
---> As you can see, the syntax ".rss" works fine with a "subreddit that has nsfw attributes" here in that case named "r/nsfw" (for example purpose) and it's fetching correctly and it's showing that the articles contains attachments and is displaying them in the article viewer without any problem.
Wrapping it up :
---> I think I exposed my case in a very clear, scientific and organized way and I couldn't do it in any better way... ---> I have given proofs that :
Now the ball is in your court to investigate the technical / development side of it.
I'm just going to give an intuitive theory here so maybe the "attachment container" changed from reddit side or maybe there is a bug on the program side specifically related to reddit nsfw search queries ?
How to reproduce the bug?
it has been exhaustively described in the above section.
What was the expected result?
getting and seeing the attachments of the posts which contains attachments.
What actually happened?
no articles attachments are shown in the attachment column.
Debug log
time=" 13899.210" type="debug" -> CTRL is NOT pressed while sorting articles - sorting with standard mode. time=" 13899.210" type="debug" -> core: Displaying messages from feeds IDs: ''4496'' and URLs: 'https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=potatoes nsfw:yes self:false&include_over_18=on&sort=new&t=all'. time=" 13899.212" type="debug" -> message-model: Repopulated model, SQL statement is now: 'SELECT Messages.id, Messages.is_read, Messages.is_important, Messages.is_deleted, Messages.is_pdeleted, Messages.feed, Messages.title, Messages.url, Messages.author, Messages.date_created, Messages.contents, Messages.enclosures, Messages.score, Messages.account_id, Messages.custom_id, Messages.custom_hash, Feeds.title, Feeds.is_rtl, CASE WHEN LENGTH(Messages.enclosures) > 10 THEN 'true' ELSE 'false' END AS has_enclosures, (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(Labels.name) FROM Labels WHERE Messages.labels LIKE '%.' || Labels.custom_id || '.%') as msg_labels, Messages.labels FROM Messages LEFT JOIN Feeds ON Messages.feed = Feeds.custom_id AND Messages.account_id = Feeds.account_id WHERE Feeds.custom_id IN ('4496') AND Messages.is_deleted = 0 AND Messages.is_pdeleted = 0 AND Messages.account_id = 1 ORDER BY Messages.date_created DESC, LOWER(Messages.author) ASC;'.
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