aggregation

Feeds has been in the works since DrupalCon Paris now. With the launch of Managing News it is finally ready to replace FeedAPI/Feed Element Mapper. I have just posted on our blog about the reasons behind refactoring and relaunching FeedAPI as Feeds: Good bye FeedAPI, hello Feeds!

Small, quick project. I need assistance creating a feed aggregator using feedapi and mapper. My xml file is not rss, which it can be, but I need validation to my schema.

Items to complete (this is my best guess being a noobie -- fill in the missing pieces as you are the expert):
1. Custom xml parser with validation
2. Mapping of elements to content type (content-type already created)
3. I think the instructions say to use drush feedapi for the cron job -- setup

I'm working on creating an aggregator for a custom xml file (not rss). I'll use feedapi and feed element mapper. Please explain the advantages/disadvantages of feedapi_node versus feedapi_data.

Hallo, liebe Gemeinschaft,

So I agree for the most part with the idea that we don't necessarily need an install profile so much as a bunch of documentation on how to set-up a Drupal based IMC.

I'm not sure if this would be super helpful for the IMC's that have next to no tech related help, but at least if we had a set of default procedures and workflows we could utilize this in order to set-up a site for them without having to spend a lot of time deliberating over the best way to do something within drupal.

I'm working on a project that involves refactoring a content site while upgrading from Drupal 4.x to 5.x. One of the pieces I thought would be somewhat easy—displaying recent posts from blog feeds—has turned into a roadblock.

The desired outcome is to have the latest post from each of several external (i.e., non-Drupal) blogs show up such that the title of the blog links to the blog and the title of the post links to the post.

Let me describe where we started, what we tried, and where we wound up.

Jose Reyero blogged this morning about how he used FeedAPI to aggregate mailing lists:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jul/29/surviving-information-ov...

Hi,

Is anybody working/experimenting with aggregating comments for articles? I'd love to see a (FeedAPI) processor for pulling in comments for aggregated articles.

See also feature request here:

http://drupal.org/node/241935

 

 
Problems:

• Drupal's core aggregator does not satisfy the requirements of state
  of the art aggregation applications. E. g. core aggregator lacks
  pluggable configurations or the possibility of creating nodes from
  feed items.
• There is an explosion of contrib modules that try to cover the
  deficiencies of Drupal's aggregator in one or the other way. Previous
  attempts to unify aggregation functionality had limited success.