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How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:20 am
by NicolasArizaV.

Hi guys new to Tiggzi so far loving it more powerful than I expected, I'm following the Building Mobile RSS App to create my own, its called iTunes top 10 paid games. So far based on the example I was able to list all the games from the feed (Including name, price, and author) however I haven't been able to extract the images, any hints ? thanks.

This is the feed I'm using : https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/toppa...

Regards,

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How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:33 am
by maxkatz

Saw your email to support so will just reply here. Try mapping 'text' property.. I think it holds the actual URL to the image.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:42 am
by NicolasArizaV.

Hi Max, I tried mapping all properties from the image[] asset and it shows an empty image I even tried mapping the text property to a label instead of an image to see if I got the URL but no luck.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:52 am
by Kevin

Hi Nicolas,

I think you might be mapping from the wrong source.

Please try This:

Map link[ ] @href to Image Asset.

Instead of image[ ] @height to Image Asset.

Let me know if it's not clear.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:37 pm
by NicolasArizaV.

Hi Kevin thanks for your suggestion, still nothing I connected the @href to image assest in link and did not show the image.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:53 pm
by NicolasArizaV.

Not sure if the problem is because the feed has 3 images you can choose from, I have tried to add with the + sign in the rest services attributes like @height=100 or @height:100, etc) still no luck. Any ideas. Thanks.

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How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:26 pm
by maxkatz

Place the image inside a grid.

Map images[] to the grid (you will have a grid inside a grid)
Map text to image asset attribute.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:44 am
by NicolasArizaV.

Hi Max it worked, thank you so much!!!. This tool is really cool.


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:10 pm
by TomBenson

Hi Max,

This is great. I am trying something similar...to map a link to an image.

We'd like the user to click a button in the grid, in order to go to the RSS item, instead of clicking the Title. The button is an image that says "Click Me" or something like that.

So, we'd like to assign the link RSS item to be the link for the image that we've inserted in the grid.

Alternatively we could embed the same "Click me" button in each RSS item, and send that button definition via the feed, but we'd like to avoid that, because then the window will have to re-download that image file for every single row of the RSS.

Any suggestions? I tried a few variations of your "insert grid" solution an none of them worked...

Thanks


How can I extract an image from an RSS Feed

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:31 am
by maxkatz

I'm not 100% sure I understand the question. Can you share the RSS feed and show me what you want to map to what?