RSS & Aggregation

It's a question that I wanted to ask long before. Kreynen's story of how the University of Nevada could use an aggregator for covering the Tahoe fire makes me finally post: What are you using an aggregator for?

There's a possibility for some development sponsorship for FeedParser system to allow each user to add RSS/ATOM feeds for aggregation.

So to make sure any work done is useful for others too - I wanted to gather any input on the best way to approach the implementation.

I noticed there's a CCK field available to add a new feed to Drupals aggregation process. So this could be extended to support FeedParser's FeedManager with a feed-management API for adding, deleting and forcing an update of a specific feed.

In working on the MySite project, I just wrote the following piece of code. It transfers aggregator feed images and writes them to a local directory.

My thought is this has security and performance benefits. But I may have missed something....

Feedback?

<?php
/**
* This function takes a Feed image and saves it locally.
* We do this for added security and speed.
* @param $fid == the feed id, taken from {aggregator_feed}
* @param $image == the image string taken from {aggregator_feed}
* @return $newfile == the filepath string pointing to the local copy of the file
*/

agentrickard proposed an aggregator API here:

http://drupal.org/node/130942

From the issue queue of Feedparser it came to my attention that a lot of Drupal sites are managing the parsing of hundreds of feeds. Now that I've added OPML import functionality to Feedparser I've been adding lots of feeds - which got me wondering...

What's the best way to manage the ?q=admin/aggregator page listings?
How should feeds be organised? Currently it's just a single page sorted A-Z.

Hello, all,

Is anybody familiar with an app named Gregarius? It's a standalone app that describes itself as a"Free, Web-based feed aggregator"

From the Features List:

*  Completely web-based and runs on your web server
* Supports RDF, RSS, ATOM feeds
* Imports and exports OPML
* Simple, password-protected, web-based administration and configuration
* AJAX powered tagging of feeds and items
* Supports themes and plugins
* Search in your feeds
* Basic i18n support