Retrieve RSS image

Questions
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I need help to retrieve the featured image from the RSS feed and repurpose it for my WordPress website. Can someone, please help?

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Hey @Clement1 , could you share a screenshot of your scenario and a screenshot of the output data? With those, it’s easier to check if the output includes an image URL.

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Welcome to the Make community!

Does the Module Require You to Map File Data?

Did you forget to download the file using the file’s link/URL? If it’s not downloaded to the scenario, the next module can’t access the file binary data (contents).

To do this, you can use the HTTP “Get a File” module with the file URL that you need to download. Your file has to be publicly accessible on the internet (doesn’t require authentication).

For more information, see the HTTP page in the Make Help Centre, which covers the following:

  • Overview of the HTTP modules
  • Make a request
  • Make a Basic Auth request
  • Make an API key Auth request
  • Make an OAuth 2.0 request
  • Make a client certificate authentication request
  • Get a file
  • Resolve a target URL
  • Retrieve Headers
  • How to generate JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

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Thank you for your reply. I haven’t added any module that retrieves an image yet, as I’m not sure how to set that up. I’ve attached what I’ve done so far. Could you please guide me on how to include the right module to get the image URL?

Scenario
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Thank you for pointing that out.

I didn’t realize the module required me to map the file data. I also haven’t downloaded the file using the file’s link/URL yet.

Could you please guide me on how to properly set up the HTTP “Get a File” module with the file URL so the scenario can access the binary data?

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This is what I have done so far:

Scenario
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You do not need to add the HTTP(Get a file) module to your scenario. You just have to map the URL to wordpress.

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Next you can upload the image to your Wordpress site.

To do this, you can try using the WordPress “Create a Media Item” module —

Creates a media item.

For more information about the Create a Media Item module and WordPress app, see the corresponding Integrations page and the Help Centre documentation.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

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I will have a look and once completed, will let you know. Thanks a lot.

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I will have a look and once completed will revert. Thanks a lot.

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Alright @Clement1, I’ll be looking forward to that.

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Well, it’s taken some time, but I managed to do what I could.

Almost everything works perfectly, except that the featured image doesn’t get posted to the WordPress Media Library.

Any help on that, please?

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How are you creating the post with the media item?

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I have been able to do it now. Initially, I was making the mistake of referencing the wrong item within the RSS module.

Thanks for the help!

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