FeedAPI 1.0 beta 1 out now
I am happy to announce that after a week of cleaning up and improving the API and adding some critical features, yesterday FeedAPI 1.0 beta 1 version came out. These are the features:
- Easy to install default package with common presets
- Arbitrary number of feed enabled node types
- Aggregation of feed items as nodes or as aggregator module-like light-weight items
- Optional quick-add form for creating feeds by pasting a feed URL and submit
- Views integration
- Organic Groups integration
- Feed items optionally inherit taxonomy from feeds
- Default parser simple pie (same parser as in simplefeed module)
- Alternative parser "common syndication" uses SimpleXML (requires PHP5)
- OPML import, OPML export
- Time-based rather than quantity-based download management on cron time
- Extensible: API fully exposes feed and feed items handling
- Compatible with PHP4 and 5 (except common syndication parser)
For aggregating any feed item element into potentially any node field (currently only taxonomy supported), there is an experimental mapper module in my sandbox:
http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2007/oct/30/pick-it-feed-stick-it-node
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Supramente!
Testing for two days with all submodules except SimplePie (don;t need it). The suite is working well for me so far, and here's (the first?) feature request... Actually this is something that has long been lacking in the regular "aggregator" module: the ability to suspend aggregation? In other words, an "off" switch for the entire aggregation process, allowing the webmaster to index the site or run other cron-related jobs without causing the aggregator to fire. And an "off" switch for each individual feed - that would be, like, even cooler...