Is it just me, or do most sponsor feeds totally suck?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Hey Bill I spent a couple hours playing with Gallery Scraper this morning
Install was very easy only took a few minutes
It does a good job of scraping galleries but doesn’t scrape feeds
I would buy the script in a heart beat if he added the ability to scrape Sponsor Feeds and Sponsor Hosted Free Sites. Also would like more control over the image grabbing and a thumbnail of the image in gallery details and editing

Yes, I've been trying it too. I'm feeling a little more critical of it than most people here seem to be.

It does do what it purports to do, and the feeds seem well formed and work fine with wpautoblog.

But, like you mention, I wanted more tools and control in the critical importng operations, and I want the same tools in the gallery database editing area.

I don't like that it only allows you to enter a gallery url once, and won't even let you overwrite an older url, you have to delete the first url before you can add it again (and try to scrape it again and re-write the description and long description.

It works best when I use it to import about ten galleries at a time, and then write some original text by visiting the gallery.

I've been using Blog Post Builder and am way more impressed with it. I can do a gallery post almost as quickly, and the post is much higher quality, because I selected and cropped the pic myself, renamed the jpg, put in alt text, and had what I needed to write a good entry.

I was still pretty much planning on buying Gallery Scraper and Blog Organizer - I hope Blog Organizer is more completely thought out than the current version of Gallery Scraper.