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Thumbnails in article list #347

Open c8c8 opened 3 years ago

c8c8 commented 3 years ago

Forgive me if I don't explain this great, I'll try my best. In the article list, my preference is to have thumbnails - they're pretty, the pique my interest. Some feeds have them; some feeds don't and I understand that. When I look directly at some RSS feeds, I can see that the images the thumbnails are based on are inserted into the feed inline like this:

Imgur

These produce thumbnails in the article list which is good.

But a lot of RSS feeds just put a link to the image like this:

Imgur

And these produce an article list in FeedMe without any thumbnails.

Since both versions of the RSS reed actually do include images that thumbnails could be built on, I've either not clicked on an option in the settings to make it happen or am wondering if FeedMe could be enhanced to grab thumbnails from the latter style of RSS feed?

Thank you for your time.

seazon commented 3 years ago

Not very clear. 2 questions:

c8c8 commented 3 years ago

I'm using FeedBin. Though I've also used Feedly.

The example I posted that isn't generating thumbnails in FeedMe was https://edmontonjournal.com/category/sports/feed.xml

The example I posted that is working was https://www.cbc.ca/cmlink/rss-sports

So the working feed is using basic "image/url" tags to identify the image that the thumbnail should be drawn from.

The feed that doesn't generate a thumbnail in FeedMe is using a "media:thumbnail url=" tag.

A similar not-generating-thumbnails (in FeedMe) feed would be https://www.cinemablend.com/rss/topic/news/movies

That feed is putting the image in an "enclosure type="image/jpg" url=" tag.

https://tvline.com/feed/ also doesn't generate thumbnails in FeedMe and the images are identified multiple "media:content url=" tags.

If I view things in FeedBin, all of these threads have thumbnails. The thumbnails only disappear when viewed in FeedMe.