feedapi

I'm probably overlooking something incredibly simple here, but i tend to over think the simple stuff.

Anywho, I'm trying out a bunch of modules that do rss and aggregation and really like what i'm seein in FeedAPI. I'm trying to simulate what drigg does without actually using drigg, and minus the voting part that drigg does.

I am looking with someone experienced with importing iCal feeds to meet with. I just want someone to look over what I've done and see if there is a blatant error I've caused. I am getting most of the data imported, just not "to date". And the attempt to import the data seems to hang up cron.

I live in the Cary/Apex area, would be willing to travel to Morrisville or Raleigh though. Meet me at a Caribou (free wifi) and I'll purchase you a large coffee of your choice!

So, I don't even know where to begin.

I am importing iCal feeds (Google Calendar specifically) using FeedAPI, Calendar, iCal parser, Date, etc, etc. I had some crazy issues that are mostly resolved now. But my one hangup I cannot remedy.

Cron will not stop running. In other words, I cannot run cron because it won't stop. If I try to run it manually I get the "Cron run Failed" or something like that.

I have done everything with deleting the cron variables, emptying cache, sacrificing small animals, hung a horseshoe over my pc, all to no avail.

I am looking for some best practices advice. I am building a module that processes machine tags. I am integrating it in with FeedAPI and FeedAPI Mapper. My two primary feeds I want to get machine tags from are Flickr and YouTube. Unfortunately for both services I have not found a way to get well formatted tags via their RSS feed. So I am resorting to getting the media id from the feed then using an API call to get the machine tags.

I have been looking into the location mapper for the feedapi.
My rss feeds are provided by a affiliate-datafeeds to rss converter. This feed includes categories and georss information. I found the following issues:

1. RSS does not have other geo fields except the georss tags
2. The location mapper does not allow mapping other fields then the georss (makes sence after the first issue)
3. When solving 1 and 2 the locatiomodule will still attempt to find ‘better’ coordinates and throw away the provided onces

After a good talk with alex_b at DrupalCon in Paris about Feed Scraper I've got to share some ideas about how the next version of the module could look like.

Here the main ones:

• Pipes: in Feed Element Mapper you can set a list of parsers for each feed content type. Sometimes, having a unique sequence of parsers for the entire XML feed is not enough to catch all the information a feed carries on. It would be handy to be able to have a specialized sequence of parsers (a "pipe") for each CCK field you want to map the result to. In this respect projects like QueryPath could nicely suit: quoting its "About the Name" section "The path part is intended to convey the chain-like "path" that one creates through". On Feed Scraper module page an issue has already been raised about how to transform a list of words in taxonomy terms (http://drupal.org/node/571358), here a pipe system could really help: after getting the list of comma-separated words, using the RegEx Parser, you would apply a String Explosion Parser to get the final array-like result, for example.

Drupaltherapy has been on the back burner for a good couple of months while I prepared to get hitched on September 12, 2009. It was a nice affair, held at an outdoor education and retreat center equipped with canoes, kayaks, archery, zip lines, kickball fields, square dances, and a whole bunch of other things that make weekend weddings fun for family and friends.

What is making us very happy right now is our use of Drupal as the platform for our wedding website and the use of some specific modules that are doing some cool things for us, too.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this as this has a lot to do with Flickr's API, but hopefully someone can help and may be I can help some others too.

Basically, I'm trying to streamline a process, so I can tag and comment of my photos in Picasa, upload to Flickr, have them pulled back down onto my Drupal blog, then I pick some and group them together into a blog entry.

This is how far I've gotten:

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I've been using Feed API for sometime, but it is incredibly complicated yet versatile. The first time I saw a demo I was briefly enlightened, then thoroughly confused.

Hi,

I'm trying to use Feed API to create OG nodes. I'm able to create the nodes, but they aren't showing up as OG nodes.

I've been going back and forth on this for 8 hours, so I can't even remember half of the settings I've tried to make this work. Rather than posting all the info here, I'd be willing to pay someone with more experience using FeedAPI and OG to go in and make the necessary adjustments. Then I will figure out what step(s) I was missing and I'll post it so it will hopefully save someone from the headaches I just gave myself.