anyone have any ideas? I’m sure someone else must have been working on this
I also have this problem. I clicked on the RSS button and get a page saying:
“The feed could not be loaded because the content is not in a known feed format.”
I thought BP has RSS feature automatic?
This plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/ has the basic infrastructure to do what you’re looking for, though it doesn’t yet have a way for users to enter their own RSS feeds via a front-end UI. I plan to add that in the next version.
Thanks for that link, it looks good but I had a quick question. Say i want to have user “johnb” have a profile whose activity feed is updated from the RSS feed of say TechCrunch, how would I edit loader.php?
array(
‘feed_url’ => ‘http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/boonebgorges?count=15’,
‘feed_action’ => ‘%s posted the link %s on Delicious’,
‘component’ => ‘delicious’,
‘type’ => ‘new_delicious_link’,
‘show_text’ => __( ‘Show Delicious Links’, ‘bp-external-activity’ )
),
I think you should just be able to add a user_id item to the array:
`’user_id’ => $user_id,`
where $user_id is johnb’s unique user id.
OK thanks, I will try it out but can you tell me what I should put for the rest of the fields, espedcially component and type. I want it so that the title of the post is displayed so for the feed for http://www.ambeat.com/
array(
‘feed_url’ => ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/ambeata?,
‘feed_action’ => ‘%s posted the link %s’,
‘component’ => ‘delicious’,
‘type’ => ‘new_delicious_link’,
’show_text’ => __( ‘Show Delicious Links’, ‘bp-external-activity’ )
‘user_id’ => ‘johnb’,
),
You’ll have to experiment in order to get the other parameters right. Try experimenting on a test installation to see how changing the different values (especially feed_action) changes the text.
And keep in mind that ‘user_id’ => ‘johnb’ will not work. You have to use a numeric id for the user. Also, make sure you have commas separating each value in the array, or you will get a white screen.
I added the following code and got this error: I was trying to see what would appear if I tried the delicious feed for user id 4 on my site. Any help woukd be greatly appreciated
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘_bp_external_activity_refetch’ was given in /home/content/70/5722070/html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 395
Code:
$external_activity_feeds = array(
array(
‘feed_url’ => ‘http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom’,
‘feed_action’ => ‘%s edited the wiki page %s’,
‘component’ => ‘wiki’,
‘type’ => ‘wiki_edit’,
‘show_text’ => __( ‘Show Wiki Edits’, ‘bp-external-activity’ )
),
array(
‘feed_url’ => ‘http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/boonebgorges?count=15’,
‘feed_action’ => ‘%s posted the link %s on Delicious’,
‘component’ => ‘delicious’,
‘type’ => ‘new_delicious_link’,
‘show_text’ => __( ‘Show Delicious Links’, ‘bp-external-activity’ ),
‘user_id’ => ‘4’,
),
);
Yes Amahesh.. This plugin will be released in about a week on http://www.bp-tricks.com 
It allows the user to fill in his RSS feed and the stream will show his/her latest posts in the activity stream
sounds great, let me know when this launches, I would be more than happy to make a donation
It would be really great to have rss import streams for users. I am missing this feature strongly.
any update on this @Bowromir ?
