RSS auto downloader only works with certain feeds?

Asked by Drew

I can get the RSS downloader to work with

http://www.ezrss.it/feed/

but not

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/37039456.rss

Is there a reason - something I am doing or can correct?

I am using 2.6.6

Thanks!

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) said :
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The reason is simply, the second RSS feed is not properly formatted for automated downloading.

Here is what an item looks like:
<item>
    <title>eztv_it: Cops S23E16 HDTV XVID-BAJSKORV [eztv] - http://re.zoink.it/4d69abaf</title>
    <description>eztv_it: Cops S23E16 HDTV XVID-BAJSKORV [eztv] - http://re.zoink.it/4d69abaf</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
    <guid>http://twitter.com/eztv_it/statuses/41675908830085120</guid>
    <link>http://twitter.com/eztv_it/statuses/41675908830085120</link>
    <twitter:source>&lt;a href=&quot;http://eztv.it/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EZTV API&lt;/a&gt;</twitter:source>
    <twitter:place/>
  </item>

Inside the <link> item, there should be a link to the torrent instead of a link to a Web page. Instead, the download link is included in the <title> and <description> element which is uncommon.

See for ezrss:
                  <item>
   <title><![CDATA[Cops 23x16 [HDTV - BAJSKORV]]]></title>
   <link>http://torrent.zoink.it/Cops.S23E16.HDTV.XVID-BAJSKORV.[eztv].torrent</link>

   <category domain="http://eztv.it/shows/57/cops/"><![CDATA[TV Show / COPS]]></category>
   <pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
   <description><![CDATA[Show Name: Cops; Episode Title: N/A; Season: 23; Episode: 16]]></description>
   <enclosure url="http://torrent.zoink.it/Cops.S23E16.HDTV.XVID-BAJSKORV.[eztv].torrent" length="183158124" type="application/x-bittorrent" />
   <comments>http://eztv.it/forum/discuss/26133/</comments>
   <guid>http://eztv.it/ep/26133/cops-s23e16-hdtv-xvid-bajskorv/</guid>
  </item>

The link actually points to a torrent, link in most Bittorrent RSS feeds.

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