<p><a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/classreference/services/FeedsService" rel="nofollow">FeedsService</a> uses <a href="http://simplepie.org/" rel="nofollow">SimplePie</a> for feed parsing, but it currently does expose any errors that SimplePie may be returning when connecting to a feed.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>A feed could not be found at <a href="http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss" rel="nofollow">http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss</a>. This does not appear to be a valid RSS or Atom feed.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Here's the error it's returning when connecting to that feed.</p>

<p>We'll update FeedsService to return any errors that come back from SimplePie, too.</p>

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2014-08-22T17:22:56.780Z
2014-08-22T17:22:56.780Z
Brad Bell
<p>I want do display a financial widget on a front-end of a site. </p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/8uoZ4.png" alt="Widget"></p>

<p>The financial data is actually a feed:</p>

<p><a href="http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss</a></p>

<p>But it's not working on the frontend. No content. </p>

<pre><code>{% set feedUrl = "http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss" %}
{% set limit = 1 %}
{% set items = craft.feeds.getFeedItems(feedUrl, limit) %}

{% for item in items %}
    &lt;div class="col-md-5ths"&gt;
        &lt;div class="number"&gt;{{ item.title }}&lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;small class="{{ item.authors[0].name }}"&gt;{{ item.summary }}&lt;br /&gt;{{ item.date }}&lt;/small&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
{% endfor %}
</code></pre>

<p>This is my feed data:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;Feed xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"&gt;
&lt;Title&gt;Aandelen Vastned&lt;/Title&gt;
&lt;Id&gt;0&lt;/Id&gt;
&lt;Updated&gt;2014-08-22T17:29:40&lt;/Updated&gt;
&lt;Entry&gt;
&lt;Title&gt;€ 36,81&lt;/Title&gt;
&lt;Id&gt;00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&lt;/Id&gt;
&lt;Updated&gt;2014-08-22T17:29:40&lt;/Updated&gt;
&lt;Summary&gt;0,00%&lt;/Summary&gt;
&lt;Author&gt;
&lt;Name&gt;Grijs&lt;/Name&gt;
&lt;/Author&gt;
&lt;/Entry&gt;
&lt;/Feed&gt;
</code></pre>

<feed>
craft.feeds does not appear to be working
# craft.feeds does not appear to be working

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-22)

I want do display a financial widget on a front-end of a site. 

The financial data is actually a feed:
http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss
But it's not working on the frontend. No content. 
{% set feedUrl = "http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss" %}
{% set limit = 1 %}
{% set items = craft.feeds.getFeedItems(feedUrl, limit) %}

{% for item in items %}
    
        {{ item.title }}
        {{ item.summary }}{{ item.date }}
    
{% endfor %}

This is my feed data:

Aandelen Vastned
0
2014-08-22T17:29:40

€ 36,81
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
2014-08-22T17:29:40
0,00%

Grijs

**Tags:** feed

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-22. Score: 1

[FeedsService](http://buildwithcraft.com/classreference/services/FeedsService) uses [SimplePie](http://simplepie.org/) for feed parsing, but it currently does expose any errors that SimplePie may be returning when connecting to a feed.

> A feed could not be found at <http://test.solutions.vwdservices.com/customers/vastned.com/page-modules/widgetrss>. This does not appear to be a valid RSS or Atom feed.

Here's the error it's returning when connecting to that feed.

We'll update FeedsService to return any errors that come back from SimplePie, too.


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