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Compared modules
- core Aggregator
- Aggregation
- SimpleFeed
- FeedParser
- Leech
- FeedAPI
Quick specification
(About parsers in detail, see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4519)
| Project website | PHP versions | Drupal core compatibility | Size of the code | Date of the last release | Parser |
| core Aggregator (5.0) | 4, 5 | all | 56K | last Drupal release | built-in |
| Aggregation | 5 | 4.7, 5 | 98K | 2007-Nov-25 | PHP's simplexml + pluggable parts |
| SimpleFeed | 4, 5 | 5 | 75K (without simplepie.inc) / 355K (with simplepie.inc) | 2007-Nov-16 Version 1.0 | SimplePie |
| FeedParser | 4, 5 | 4.7 | 243K | 2007-May-21 (only devel snapshot) | SimplePie |
| Leech | 4, 5 | 4.7, 5 | 172K | 2007-May-24 | leech_news_parser |
| FeedAPI | 4, 5 | 5 | 213 K (without simplepie.inc) / 493K (with simplepie.inc) | 2007-Oct-30 1.0 beta 1 | SimplePie and Aggregation-like PHP5 parser |
Feature matrix
| Feature | core Aggregator | Aggregation | SimpleFeed | FeedParser | Leech | FeedAPI |
| Create simple items from news items | X | X | X | |||
| Create nodes from news items | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Process feeds in cron time | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Set per-feed refresh time manually | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Adaptive per-feed refresh time | X | |||||
| Process feeds on demand | X | X | X | X | X | |
| OPML Import | X | X | X | |||
| OPML Export | X | X | ||||
| Node type of feed | - | Feed | Feed | - | any | any |
| Node type of feed item | - | Feed Item | Feed Item | aggregator item | any | any |
| Promote to frontpage setting | X | X | X | |||
| Dynamically tag incoming news items | X | X | X | |||
| Handling authentication (HTTP/FTP) | X | |||||
| News items can inherit og settings from the feed | X | X | ||||
| Duplicate handling from duplicate articles from different feeds | ||||||
| Organic group integration: Feed items inherit group from feed | X | X | ||||
| Sticky taxonomy: Feed items inherit taxonomy from feed | X | X | X | |||
| Auto taxonomy: Feed items inherit taxonomy from original RSS feed | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Revisions support for feeds and feed items | X | |||||
| Automatically generate feed item titles if they dont exist in feed | X | |||||
| Views support | X | X | 4.7.x | X | ||
| Token support | X | Displays Images from Feeds | X | ? | ? | ? | ? | X |