I want to forward the RSS feed of a vBulletin Forum to Facebook. If the posting contains an image, it should be displayed within the facebook post.
So I used the Recipe:
if [New feed item from http://example.com/feed]
then [Upload a photo from URL on myFacebookPage]
This recipe is active since a week. Although there have been new items, they didn't get forwarded to facebook. Next to the recipe there is the text:
created May 05, 2015 never run
If I configure the recipe to upload them without a photo, everything works. Why does this not work for photos?
Here is an example what my feed looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>bla</title>
<link>https://example.com/</link>
<description>Yep</description>
<language>de</language>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 11:00:38 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<generator>vBulletin</generator>
<ttl>15</ttl>
<image>
<url>https://example.com/misc/rss.png</url>
<title>Here</title>
<link>https://example.com/</link>
</image>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Bla]]></title>
<link>https://example.com/threads/uniqueURL</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 18:32:11 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Some text and a graphic: https://example.com/someimage.png]]></description>
<category domain="https://example.com/cat1">cat1</category>
<dc:creator>Someone</dc:creator>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://example.com/threads/uniqueURL</guid>
</item>
<!-- More items -->
</channel>
</rss>
Best Answer
The action is never carried out because the RSS feed isn't recognized as creating a new entry by IFTTT. You have't included the feed URL so this can't be fully checked. This is almost certainly a problem with the feed. Here are some steps to try:
The w3 feed validator gives warning: line 26, column 4: Missing atom:link with rel="self" instructions to fix