I just had some troubles for a few days trying to figure out why some of my feed were disappearing from Magpie when the website was using feedburner’s services ; the problem was coming from user agent – feedburners apparently has some troubles answering application with a ‘weird’ name.
The solution I found (here) is to declare Magpie useragent as being something more traditionnal:
define('MAGPIE_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1');
* Magpie is a RSS parser for PHP; it allows for quick prototyping. It is super simple and easy to use. It is a very nice way for using similar concepts as the Yahoo Pipes RSS parser in custom code.
Thanks for posting this. You saved me quite a bit of troubleshooting on this.
Comment by Peter — October 14, 2008 @ 7:04 am
i’m glad we did :) you’re welcome
Comment by jerome — October 26, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
Several times I’ve searched the web for a solution as I was not able to let Magpie work on Feedburner. Tested so much, but nothing worked.
Thank you very much for your help. Now it’s working fine.
Comment by Wulffy — October 31, 2008 @ 4:10 am
thank you very much for posting this!!! I’ve been googling like crazy for 2 weeks to find this problem!!! the code works great!!!
Comment by Carina — November 8, 2008 @ 10:00 am
it’s nice to read this bit is usefull but i have to say that all the credits belongs to Jimmy Ngu who spotted the solution on a thread on Google Groups (the original link is given in the post)
Comment by jerome — November 15, 2008 @ 9:34 am