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Unable to acquire https://whatchawearing.com/feed.
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September 12, 2022
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I am trying to syndicate this feed, which is active, and I'm getting an error - Login to see this link

Unable to acquire Login to see this link.

I can pull content from it using another plugin and it's not being blocked by robots.txt

Am I doing something incorrectly?

September 12, 2022
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This is a example of an incorrectly-configured feed. The RSS feeds are made to be syndicated by scripts, however this one can be viewed in browsers only and it blocks any script which tries to pull it. This is an absolutely wrong situation and the whatchawearing.com owner just don't understand the primary concept of the RSS technology.

So if you want to pull this feed, just ask CyberSEO Pro to pretend like it's not a script but a web browser. To do so, you just need to set a fake browser user againt here: Login to see this link

Please read the appropriate paragraph in the manual. You'll find there a few examples of user agent signatures for a web browser, Google bot and a Feed validator service. All those fake user agents will fix the whatchawearing.com configuration problem and the feed will be imported just easily.

September 12, 2022
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Thanks... He either doesn't understand or does it on purpose. I have been able to track down a bunch of sites created by the same person. He sells a course on how to make such sites and does quite well with them.

September 12, 2022
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If a site owner doesn't want his feed to be syndicated by other scripts of applications, he just disables the RSS feeds at all. I can't see any reason to have a  feed, but make it available for a browser view only. This has no sense, because the RSS feeds are not intended for browsers. Even if the modern browsers are able to display RSS feeds, the do it just as an alternative to a blank page. The browsers are made to display WWW content only. If someone wants to use FTP, he uses an FTP client, if he wants to use SSH, he uses Telnet etc. The RSS format was designed for RSS parsers, but not for web browsers.

September 12, 2022
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Agreed... This guy was a Lawyer before he started making sites so who knows what he does and doesn't know about technology.

Speaking of the law, I imagine most people using your plugin pull images from other sites. Have any of them reported any legal trouble? Is there a way to obfuscate the image URL like the other outgoing links?

Would that even help? I suppose their server logs will still show where it's being pulled from?

Btw, if I use

I suspect the spinning is done last?

September 12, 2022
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The shuffle paragraphs option is being implemented after content spinners. I don't recommend to use this option. Some customer asked for it about 10 years ago, so it's implemented just for a case.

September 12, 2022
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Okay, sounds good.

March 12, 2023
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i have the same problem with this site Login to see this link, could you elaborate 

March 12, 2023
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This feed is protected from automatic syndication. The server uses sessions and sets a cookie to the web browser. Of course any protection can be bypassed, but I would not help you with that. If the feed owner protects it, when he or she doesn't want to you copy the content from there. In simple terms, it's called content theft, which I don't encourage as a CyberSEO Pro developer.

You should make sure that you are allowed to syndicate the content from there. Many site owners are ok with that and that's why they have RSS feeds. Because RSS literally means "Really Simple Syndication" - a mechanism provided to other sites or applications to easily syndicate content. For example, this site is also have a blog and its feed: Login to see this link

You or anybody else may freely syndicate the CyberSEO Pro RSS feed and re-post all the articles published there at your site(s). But as said above, other sites may have different rules and you have to respect them,

Thus I would not recommend you to pull any protected feeds. You may have legal problems with that.

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