Server-Side

In this guide, I will explain how to use Yahoo! Pipes to read, parse, and create a RSS feed that is friendly twards the Recent Loot module that we created earlier from the feeds at Wowprogress.com.

First off, head over to Yahoo! Pipes and create a new account, or log in if you already have one. Then head over to Wowprogress.com and find your guild’s page.

You should find something similar to a RSS Feed Reader on their page by scrolling down, make sure you sort by Phat Loot and click the RSS icon. Save this feed URL. It should look something similar to this:

You’ll notice how this feed has the information we need, but had to much extra info and needs formated to what will work with our project.

Let’s make a pipe that formats this data:

1. On the Pipes page, hit Create a pipe.
2. Use this image, and create it exactly. Make sure you make the URL of the feed your guilds’ from the wowprogress.com site.
3. Save the feed. Copy down the URL of the RSS feed (you can find this on your Pipes page.)

Now, you’ll notice how “Apr 12, 2009 Orkko Oath acquired item Serene Echoes link” turns into “CHARACTER NAME – [item]ITEMNAME[/item]”

See how that works? Make any changes you want, I know some people might want to change the “-” back to “aquires” or something of that nature. Have fun and make it something unique if you want.

Now, we’ll add our RSS feed to the vBulletin RSS Feed Robot.

1. In the vBulletin Admin Console go to the RSS Feeds category and click RSS Feed Manager.
2. Hit Add New RSS Feed.
3. Title the feed and enter the URL.
4. Put in the username of who you want the posts to be by, could be you, or a dummy account, but it has to0 actually exist.
5. Set the forum that it posts in to the one we created earlier.
6. In both Title Template and Body Template replace everything with “{feed:title}“.
7. Change any other settings you would like, but that is all that is necessary.
8. Press Save and then Run Scheduled Tasks Now.

Go to the page where you added the vBadvanced module. You should now see something like this:

You’re done! Make any changes you want, and post your guild site link in the comments for other to see. You can also post here any questions, comments, or suggestions. I’d love to make this better or more efficent if anyone has any ideas.