Auto Content Scraper

**flxfxp** · 09-12-2010, 12:18 PM

Hi chuckroast,

Understandable. However, I've looked at both collegehumor and vimeo in this example and they both support sizable thumbnails

Anyway, which services have you currently enabled thumbnails for? I'd like to disable thumbnails for all the others due to them messing up the layout, how can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Dennis

**ChuckRoast** · 09-12-2010, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by flxfxp

Hi chuckroast,

Understandable. However, I've looked at both collegehumor and vimeo in this example and they both support sizable thumbnails

Anyway, which services have you currently enabled thumbnails for? I'd like to disable thumbnails for all the others due to them messing up the layout, how can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Dennis

Currently thumbnails can only be retrieved if the url formats using the same unique identifier. .
For example if the video url is something like ?watch=AVHTV35
The thumbnail would use the same identifier in the url structure such as /thumbs/AVHTV35_small.jpg
Unfortunately not all content providers follow that common method.

Currently the module grabs thumbs from youtube, twipic, imgur, and tinypic.
Future versions will handle more.

If want to not use thumbnails you can copy the code from
auto_content_scraper/templates/begin_scrape_story.tpl
into
auto_content_scraper/templates/begin_scrape_summary.tpl
replacing the code in that file.

Best Regards

**flxfxp** · 09-14-2010, 04:32 AM

Hi chuckroast,

To be honest I'd like to have the reverse: to have thumbnails if the website supports it or disable it if the site doesn't support thumbnails (e.x disabling scaped content on vimeo and collegehumor content). The reason why is because I don't want to have it mess up the layout

**timventura** · 11-14-2010, 12:02 AM

Hey Chuck - Love the content scraper: got a quick question, though. Does it embed the Flickr galleries like the Flickr module does, or do I need to download that module separately? I know that ACS embeds single images from Flickr, but I wasn't sure about the galleries (not that any of my users seem to understand Flickr, but I can dream, can't I?)

**ChuckRoast** · 11-14-2010, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by timventura

Hey Chuck - Love the content scraper: got a quick question, though. Does it embed the Flickr galleries like the Flickr module does, or do I need to download that module separately? I know that ACS embeds single images from Flickr, but I wasn't sure about the galleries (not that any of my users seem to understand Flickr, but I can dream, can't I?)

No, it only support single images from Flickr. This is due to limitations within Flickr since the galleries don't use usernames. They use a user ID number which the embedly api is not currently able to retrieve. Also it would require Flickr to use the oembed functions which they only provide for single images. The separate flickr module is the best option for now.

**kevin4uguys** · 11-14-2010, 10:12 AM

hi chuckroast is this comfortable with arthemia theme , and is this module can scrap the content form blogspots too (for eg ; googlenews.blogspot.com) .

**ChuckRoast** · 11-14-2010, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by kevin4uguys

hi chuckroast is this comfortable with arthemia theme , and is this module can scrap the content form blogspots too (for eg ; googlenews.blogspot.com) .

It works with any template that is fully compatible with Pligg. Blogspot is not rich media.

**mabod** · 11-30-2010, 03:34 PM

yo! awesome module. Works well but I have one little problem

Sometime the preview of the video don't work. I can live with that because it show an icon to tell the user that it should have something here and he can click on it to go on the story page. BUT, in firefox this little icon doesn't show up. Works well on all other browser (IE and chrome, didn't try opera). Any idea ?

ps : can't wait for the version 5 to be release, good job dude.

unbelabus - Votre source d'abus!

**NeonPT** · 12-02-2010, 09:47 AM

Hello Chuck, i am about to buy this module, but before just 2 quick questions:

- Is it possible to disable the double click on the youtube video, and the youtube pop's up?

- Is it mandatory to write something on the discription and tags when submiting a new video?

Thank you in advance.

**ChuckRoast** · 12-02-2010, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by NeonPT

Hello Chuck, i am about to buy this module, but before just 2 quick questions:

- Is it possible to disable the double click on the youtube video, and the youtube pop's up?

- Is it mandatory to write something on the discription and tags when submiting a new video?

Thank you in advance.

1. There is no popup, or double click.
2. The module does not control this. This is a standard Pligg configuration option. Set minimum characters allowed to zero.