Facebook Imports – Duplicate Events

[Rick Maggio]

We continue to see duplicate events pulling in from the facebook importer. I’ve seen a number of threads on this over time. Has there been any progress in finding and pushing a fix for this?

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/veZMl39

We’re tried disabling plug-ins, switching themes, etc with no luck. Your help is appreciated! Thanks.

[jskk123]

I have this problem too and have watched it for a while, trying to gather info.
Here’s my config:
– latest plugins on all tribe sw: event cal 4.07, PRO 1.03, community 4.06, FB 4.0
– auto import every 12 hours
– imports go into “pending” and then are manually published
– using Bridge theme & WP 4.4.2
– other plugins are wordfence 6.0.24, WPBakery Visual composer 4.3.4, Updraft Plus 2.11.29.22, heartbeat control 1.03 (though this problem was happening before that was installed)

Events that have been published then appear as duplicates in my “pending” list on the DAY of the event. Seemingly at the event start time and then the 2nd duplicate appears maybe 15-30 min later. This happens with EVERY imported event from 5 different FB pages. I don’t believe this is triggered by edits, because I cannot imagine they are all editing all of their events, all the time.

The first time an event is in pending list, it appears with “the-event-name” (like susie-smith-band) in the URL and the next 2 iterations in the pending list (both are there at the same time) have the same URL: “the-event-name-2”

This means I get each event in “pending” a total of 3 times.

[Keith]

Just posting here to be notified of updates to this thread.

[Brian]

Hi,

Sorry for the issues with the duplicates here. I thought we released a fix for this, but not sure what happened.

Anyway, this patch can help today until 4.1, which will be out in a couple weeks.

Please replace the contents of this file:

the-events-calendar-facebook-importer\src\Tribe\Importer.php

With this

https://gist.github.com/jesseeproductions/b1180c6366e10875ad80

I believe that will stop the issue, but if not let us know and if we can get more information to replicate the problem and then fix it.

Let me know.

Thanks

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