feedapi

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...

The major new feature of OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.8 is integration with Feed Element Mapper (feedapi_mapper).

The development of this functionality was sponsored by Hudson Street Media using our bounty system:
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/15
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/14

Feed Element Mapper is an add-on module for FeedAPI that maps a feed's elements such as tags or (in this case) videos to taxonomy or CCK fields on your site.

This enables your site to aggregate videos from other sites.

I have set up various video feeds on our site as a demonstration. Click on the 'Feed item' links to view the videos.

We have finally gone live with our redesign of the Georgia Podcast Network! For a rundown of what's new from an end user standpoint, check out our announcement blog post.

GAPN is based on Drupal 5.7, and makes heavy use of the following modules: CCK, Views, Workflow-ng, FeedAPI, ImageCache, Usernode, Bio, Fivestar, and Voting API. That's not a full list, but the site leans on those the most.

Additionally, we built a custom theme and wrote several custom modules to get things working just the way we wanted them to. In writing these modules, we built custom Drupal integration for getID3, SWFUpload, and the JW Media Player.

Hope you like the site! I'll be happy to answer any "how did you do that?" questions if you have them.

There are many people, who ask a possibility to filter feed items based on keywords in order to exclude them from processing (or possibly based on some other criteria like on timestamp, etc.). This issue has been raised under most aggregator modules and such feature request is in the pipeline of FeedAPI project as well:

FeedAPI:
http://drupal.org/node/160692

The usual recommendation for such problem is to relay on standard syndication and use Views module afterwards for filtering.

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.

I made a very rough implementation of a module that just uses the nodeapi 'rss item' op to add cck fields as extra elements in the item namespace. In RSS 2.0, adding extra elements is allowed as long as they're w/in a namespace on the spec., and Drupal's nodeapi makes this pretty easy to do. My question is, is there already some functionality out there that does this?

Has somebody out there played w/ SimplePie's Live service?

http://live.simplepie.org/

I would love to hear people's impressions.

Alex

The Feed Element Mapper maps now not only standard RSS tags to taxonomy, but also any RSS tag to taxonomy or CCK fields.

Check out the screencast here:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jan/24/pick-it-feed-stick-it-no...

and a step by step guide how to build your own mapper:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jan/24/build-your-own-mapper-fe...

Hello, all,

As part of some work we're doing, I put together a proof of concept leveraging the functionality within the FeedAPI and Views.

It's a pretty simple site -- all it does is bring in some selected feeds, import any existing tags, and add on some additional tags set on each feed as it is added to the site.

But it starts to get fun when you use views to organize the content based on author, taxonomy, etc --

I was also amazed at how quickly the site came together -- like I said, it's basic, but the basic config came together in about 6 hours.