Feed refresh

Use this cronjob to manually refresh the feeds which are managed in sections “Feeds” and are set to recurrence “Manually” (see Feeds).

Note

The cronjob only handles feeds whose recurrence is set to “Manually”.

recurrence manually

The script to use can be found in ASA2’s subdirectory scripts.

Execute it like this:

cd .../wordpress/wp-content/plugins/amazon-simple-affiliate/scripts

bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds

Setup

This configuration will execute the feeds resfresh task every hour (at minute zero, every hour).

0 * * * * /[wp_path]/wp-content/plugins/amazon-simple-affiliate/scripts script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds

To learn more about cronjobs, see Introduction.

Options

Note

Without options, this cronjob will refresh all active feeds.

id

The option id is optional. It can be used to define the feeds to refreshed.

Possible values

  • ID (integer): The ID of one feed you want to refresh

  • List: A comma separated list of IDs to refresh multiple feeds at once, like: 1,2,3

You can find the ID in the first column of the feeds list table in section “Feeds”.

Feeds ID 
// ID example:
bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds -id=2

// List example:
bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds -id=1,2,3,5
Feeds bash

lifetime

Use the lifetime option to only include feeds with a last refresh time older than the defined lifetime in seconds.

For example, if you want to use the cronjob to only update feeds older than two hours, use a lifetime of 7200.

bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds --lifetime=7200

limit

Limits the number of feeds to be handled. If no limit is set, all feeds will be handled. The limit option makes perfect sense to be used together with option lifetime.

bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds --limit=10

verbose

Use the verbose option to get more information about the new items of a refrehed feed.

bash script.sh Asa2_Module_Feeds_Cron_Feeds --verbose
Feeds bash verbose