How do I get rid of the fix feed author 'RSS-Bridge'?

[HolgerAusB]

I use a modiefied version of FeedMergeBridge. I just eliminated the inputs and set fix feed-URLs and data. Otherwise the new feed-URL would be excessive long when using 5 feeds.

But every feed contains a feed author before the first <entry> tag:

<author>
    <name>RSS-Bridge</name>
</author>

unfortunately FiveFilters seems to use that 'RSS-Bridge' as author (dc:creator) for every single item/article instead of the author, found in-article. Is there any way to strip that field in the config or in the xxxBridge.php?

BTW: Is there any way to get more than 10 entries in the resulting feed?

[dvikan]

The Atom feed always has RSS-Bridge as top-level author of the feed. Each individual feed item has an author or not. We don't use the dc (Dublin Core) namespace but each feed item has <author><name>root</name></author> if an author value is present.

By your description it sounds like FiveFilters has a bug where they ignore the feed item's author and instead default back to the feed author.

PS: There is not a way to get more than 10 entries.

[HolgerAusB]

Thank you. I thought so. The original feeds don't have author fields in their items. FiveFilters/FullTextRSS isn't that active in their code base, so I tried to ask here, just in case.