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

Bill · 2007-03-16, 07:13 PM

Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion too. The sales text on the gallery scraper program is really thick and crusty - I just want to know exactly what it can do, not read paragraph after paragraph of effulgent praise in sell-speak.

It does say that it can grab text from the gallery - that sounds pretty good. But nowhere does it say that it can take a delimited file and make a feed from it, that I have found yet.

They do have that free trial dealio now, I'm expecting to check it out in the next day or two.

Thansk for the aggregator link - what software are you using to build that aggregator directory, btw?

T Pat · 2007-03-16, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill

Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion too. The sales text on the gallery scraper program is really thick and crusty - I just want to know exactly what it can do, not read paragraph after paragraph of effulgent praise in sell-speak.

It does say that it can grab text from the gallery - that sounds pretty good. But nowhere does it say that it can take a delimited file and make a feed from it, that I have found yet.

They do have that free trial dealio now, I'm expecting to check it out in the next day or two.

Thansk for the aggregator link - what software are you using to build that aggregator directory, btw?

I'm using http://www.newstopica.com/ I'm not thriled with it

walrus · 2007-03-17, 02:12 AM

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I'm using http://www.newstopica.com/ I'm not thriled with it

You don't want to know my opinion of Newstopica or the ass wipe that promotes it. But I've got a copy if you want to reimburse me for the loss.

I'm amazed T-Pat has stuck with it this long.

T Pat · 2007-03-18, 07:13 PM

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You don't want to know my opinion of Newstopica or the ass wipe that promotes it. But I've got a copy if you want to reimburse me for the loss.

I'm amazed T-Pat has stuck with it this long.

It's a combination of Stupid, Stubborn, Damned If I Do, and Damned If I Don't Walrus

I spent a couple days playing with then shit canning another aggregator script last week I’m sure the only way I’m going to get what I want is to get a script coded for me and I just don’t feel up to the grind of putting a project like that together right now.

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

Bill · 2007-03-19, 07:35 PM

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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.

T Pat · 2007-03-20, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill

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.

Bill Blogs Organiser can build a shitload of sites fast and it's nice being able to control everything from one admin
The downside of BO is there aren't a bunch of plugins like WP

I'm going to pass on Gallery Scraper for now, I want to see what photo I'm useing and I'm used to just pasteing the info into a template then pasteing that into the blog

Bill · 2007-03-21, 06:04 PM

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Bill Blogs Organiser can build a shitload of sites fast and it's nice being able to control everything from one admin
The downside of BO is there aren't a bunch of plugins like WP

So you do actually use Blogs Organizer to do part of your daily work?

Would you give me a few examples of the kinds of things you do with it?

How would it compare to something like Auto Blogging Pro, which I gather is the top of the line in commercially available blog control scripts?

2007-03-16, 07:13 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Yeah, that was pretty much my conclusion too. The sales text on the gallery scraper program is really thick and crusty - I just want to know exactly what it can do, not read paragraph after paragraph of effulgent praise in sell-speak. It does say that it can grab text from the gallery - that sounds pretty good. But nowhere does it say that it can take a delimited file and make a feed from it, that I have found yet. They do have that free trial dealio now, I'm expecting to check it out in the next day or two. Thansk for the aggregator link - what software are you using to build that aggregator directory, btw?