Broken feeds reader

[Agusia]

My feeds reader stopped working. Could anyone help me??

[smurfier]

Please provide more detail in your posts. Without knowing which skin you used, which error you are receiving, and possibly which feeds you use, we cannot help.

[Agusia]

I'm using the default skin. I don't know what to tell more, I'm not really good in these things, sorry.

[Kaelri]

1) Have you changed the feed address, or are you using the one it came with (Lifehacker)?

2) Have you tried restarting Rainmeter? (Not just refreshing the skin, but fully exiting and re-launching the Rainmeter program.)

[Agusia]

I've changed the feed address, but the default address doesn't work too.
I've restarted the whole computer and that didn't help.

[smurfier]

Right click on the skin and select Rainmber > About.

Are there any error messages?

[Agusia]

WebParser.dll: [measureFeed] Matching error! (-1)

[Kaelri]

I'd like you to do the following:

1) Right-click the Feeds skin.
2) Click "Edit skin". A Notepad window will open containing a bunch of code.
3) Copy the code and post the entire thing in this thread.

[Agusia]

Code: Select all

; Lines starting ; (semicolons) are commented out.
; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only.
; ----------------------------------

[Rainmeter]
; This section contains general settings that can be used to change how Rainmeter behaves.
Author=poiru
AppVersion=2003000
Update=1000
Background=#@#Background.png
; #@# is equal to Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\@Resources
BackgroundMode=3
BackgroundMargins=0,34,0,14

[Metadata]
; Contains basic information of the skin
Description=Displays the latest entries of a RSS or Atom feed.
License=Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Version=1.0.0

[Variables]
; Variables declared here can be used later on between two # characters (e.g. #MyVariable#).
fontName=Trebuchet MS
textSize=8
colorBar=235,170,0,255
colorText=255,255,255,205
getItem=.*(?(?=.*<div class="item">).*<div class="item">.*<a href="(.*)">(.*)</a>)
feedURL=http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full
; edit feedURL to change displayed feed

; ----------------------------------
; MEASURES return some kind of value
; ----------------------------------

[measureFeed]
; WebParser measures are relatively complicated. If you're a beginner with
; Rainmeter, take a look at some of the other illustro skins before modifying this one.
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/#feedURL#?n=8
RegExp="(?siU)<h1>(.*)</h1>#getItem##getItem##getItem##getItem##getItem##getItem##getItem##getItem#"
UpdateRate=1500
StringIndex=1
Substitute="":"N/A"
; Substitute works as follows: "A":"B" where A is a string to substitute and B is a string
; to substitute with. In this case, it substutes "" (i.e. empty) to N/A

; The WebParser plugin requires a unique measure for every string index it returns that needs to be read.
; The RegExp parameter only needs to be specified once per URL.
[measureLink1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=2

[measureItem1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=3
DecodeCharacterReference=1
; When is set to DecodeCharacterReference=1, WebParser automatically decodes numeric character references
; and character entity references. For example, " will automatically be decoded to "

[measureLink2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=4

[measureItem2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=5
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink3]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=6

[measureItem3]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=7
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink4]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=8

[measureItem4]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=9
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink5]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=10

[measureItem5]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=11
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink6]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=12

[measureItem6]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=13
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink7]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=14

[measureItem7]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=15
DecodeCharacterReference=1

[measureLink8]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=16

[measureItem8]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser.dll
Url=[measureFeed]
StringIndex=17
DecodeCharacterReference=1

; ----------------------------------
; STYLES are used to "centralize" options
; ----------------------------------

[styleTitle]
StringAlign=CENTER
StringCase=UPPER
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,50
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=10
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[styleLeftText]
StringAlign=LEFT
; Meters using styleLeftText will be left-aligned.
StringCase=NONE
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1

[styleSeperator]
SolidColor=255,255,255,15

; ----------------------------------
; METERS display images, text, bars, etc.
; ----------------------------------

[meterTitle]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleTitle
; Using MeterStyle=styleTitle will basically "copy" the contents
; of the [styleTitle] section here during runtime.
MeasureName=measureFeed
X=100
Y=12
W=190
H=18
Text="%1"
; %1 stands for the value of MeasureName (measureFeed in this case).

[meterItem1]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem1
X=10
Y=40
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink1]"]
; When the mouse is clicked and released on this meter, the value of
; measureLink1 (an address) will be opened in the default browser.
ToolTipText="%1"
; Hovering over this meter will display a tooltip with the text of %1 (i.e. the value of measureItem1).

[meterSeperator1]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=52
W=190
H=1

[meterItem2]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem2
X=10
Y=60
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink2]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator2]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=72
W=190
H=1

[meterItem3]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem3
X=10
Y=80
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink3]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator3]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=92
W=190
H=1

[meterItem4]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem4
X=10
Y=100
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink4]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator4]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=112
W=190
H=1

[meterItem5]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem5
X=10
Y=120
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink5]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator5]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=132
W=190
H=1

[meterItem6]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem6
X=10
Y=140
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink6]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator6]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=152
W=190
H=1

[meterItem7]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem7
X=10
Y=160
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink7]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator7]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=172
W=190
H=1

[meterItem8]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
MeasureName=measureItem8
X=10
Y=180
W=190
H=14
Text="%1"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["[measureLink8]"]
ToolTipText="%1"

[meterSeperator8]
Meter=IMAGE
MeterStyle=styleSeperator
X=10
Y=192
W=190
H=1

[Kaelri]

Alright. It seems like your Rainmeter may have a problem connecting to the Internet. Would you mind running this test skin? It's very easy to use: just tell us whether the light turns green or stays red. :)