RSS & Aggregation

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Working on the improvement of the RSS/ATOM aggregation provided by Drupal.

What Taxonomy Terms to Aggregate

Posted by indytechcook on December 17, 2008 at 8:09pm

I'm working on an Aggregation site. I am using FeedAPI to pulling the feeds. I have a vocabulary for "tags" and "category." I assign each feed at least on "category" when the feed is created. I control the create of the Feeds and the "category". The "category" vocabulary also drives a menu on top of my page. I am using Feed Element Mapper to add tags from the Feeds to the "tags" vocabulary so I have no control over what gets put in it.

I am also using Messaging/Notifications to allow the users to subscribe to feeds and/or "category" vocabulary.

Feedapi + views

Posted by mattmm on December 12, 2008 at 5:16pm

Looking to see how people handle output of views blocks (or otherwise) generated by feedAPI that have HTML markup in the feed.

I have a blocks that display a feed title and the teaser. However, the feed has HTML that the teaserfield isn't parsing. Things like breaks 'br' font-sizes etc are displaying as pure text in the field. Has anyone managed to avoid this? Possibly by mapping a teaser field to a specific CCK field of sorts?

Feedback welcome.

Content template and RSS custom

Posted by NikkelDrup on December 2, 2008 at 10:53am

Hi there,

With a friend, we develop our drupal (v5) site, and use the contemplate module to customize the output. Everything is ok !

Now, I would like to add a RSS feed for all the users wishlist (please check @ http://tinyurl.com/68fpe3 ).
Each item should contain the title, description, picture, and direct URL.

I tried to activate the "Affect RSS Output" in the content template, but it does not work.
I cannot find the generated feed anywhere.
Also if I look into the source, it seems this page does not contain any RSS feed "embedded".

FeedAPI + Flickr: Is there a guide?

Posted by mattmm on November 16, 2008 at 9:46pm

I'm wondering if there is a comprehensive guide for configuring FeedAPI and Flickr to pull in Flickr feeds to create thumbnails that link to content/nodes. Thanks in advance!

FeedAPI Node Delete

Posted by chrisschaub on November 1, 2008 at 1:09am

I've been working on an extension module / processor for FeedAPI (similar to feedapi_node) that does node deletions based upon incoming feed items parsed by FeedAPI. So, you can bring in and create new nodes from feed items -- why not be able to delete them as well!

I am currently matching on guid or node title -- the match type is configurable. Guid is pretty safe and should be unique. Also, you are probably not going to bring in and process a "delete feed" from an untrusted source.

Control Title link and "read more" in RSS Feed of views

Posted by aurelien-bordeaux on October 25, 2008 at 12:26am

Hi.
I have this need: use drupal as a rss remixer. That means I want to suscribe to feed1, feed2, feed3 and give "tag A" as a tag for feed 1 and 2.

Then I make a view that is the taxonomy term view for "tag A".
I want the RSS feed of this view to redirect title links and "read more" links directly to the original article, and not to my site.
But I can't, since the RSS style in views is not changeable.
I tried with "Contemplate module", but it will only allow me to change the teaser and body of the rss feed.

Styling and Theming Aggregated Feeds

Posted by tfo on October 6, 2008 at 8:20pm

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.

Best way to get RSS -> Node?

Posted by timmillwood on October 6, 2008 at 2:07pm

I am looking to import RSS feed items into nodes. FeedAPI and Simple feed are currently being looked at but wondering what the group's thoughts were.

Complete Newbie Here

Posted by Keith Hurst on September 1, 2008 at 12:04pm

Guys,

bear with me on this one please, as this is simething I need to understand but don't know where to start.

I install a default Drupal site, I create content and promote and voila I have an RSS icon at the bottom of the front page allowing a someone to subscribe to the feed.

Alternatively I create new content types and implement Views to display said content and again voila I have optionally an icon at the bottom of the list (or whatever) which allows someone to subscribe to that subset of my sites data.

aggregator feed witch image

Posted by robert774 on August 11, 2008 at 7:23pm

hello
im new in drupal. i looking for help. is there any aggregator module which gives possibility to add my own custom image to aggregator feed?? image. if there isnt ,any hints how can i develope this by my self? - its very important to me.
tnx for advices

Memetracker session at Szeged

Posted by kyle_mathews on July 30, 2008 at 6:04pm

I've proposed a session for Memetracker for the upcoming Drupalcon at Szeged.

Any votes for the session would be appreciated :)
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/introducing-memetracker

Use FeedAPI to aggregate mailing lists

Posted by alex_b on July 29, 2008 at 2:27pm

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...

Media Code Sprint: Status Report One

Posted by aaron on July 25, 2008 at 2:10am

As announced, we've begun the Media Code Sprint to put better media handling into Drupal core!

It's been a great time so far. In the morning, drewish compiled a file function guessing game (free beer!), and andreiashu took the bait and completed the first round with great feedback about how unusable the current state is.

Next, we've sat down and begun writing SimpleTests for the hook_file patch. This has been great fun for me personally; though drewish is an old hand at building tests, this is completely new for me. And to top it off, webchick, Queen of Drupal testing, dropped by our table and got involved!

Even the process of writing tests has been helpful; we found at least one case for validation that had been missed in the original patch, and drewish decided that file_scan_directory needed refactoring. (He's currently chasing other problems as well, and cursing about finding himself going down rabbit holes.)

There's more fun to be had for all! If you want a quick 15 minute task that everyone is qualified to do, go play the File API Function Guessing Game. If you want to do more, then ping me (aaronwinborn), drewish, or dopry at #drupal in IRC, or leave a comment here!

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

Media Code Sprint (Top 3 Goals)

Posted by aaron on July 24, 2008 at 6:08pm

The Media Code Sprint is underway! Here's a cross-post from my blog detailing the goals of this sprint, which runs through Saturday. We need your help!

Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O'Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person or remotely, if you're interested in multimedia and Drupal! It has now officially started, and as I've volunteered to help keep folks updated, here goes...

First the reasons.

Number One: Better Media Handling in Core

Dries conducted a survey prior to his State of Drupal presentation at Boston Drupalcon 2008, and number one on the top ten (or 11) list of what would make THE KILLER DRUPAL 7 Release was "Better media handling".

Let me repeat that. Better media handling.

People have done really amazing stuff in contrib, but it is difficult (if not impossible in many cases) for developers to coordinate the use of files, as there is no good means for file handling in the core of Drupal. Thus, we have several dozen (or more) media modules doing some small part, or even duplicating functionality, sometimes out of necessity.

We need (better) media and file handling in Drupal core. In particular, there has been a patch for a hook_file in the queue for over a year, which has been in the Patch Spotlight (for the second time, no less) since May! (And has been RTBC several times during that process...) Come on folks.

One of the powers of Drupal is its system of hooks. We have hooks to modify nodes, to notify changes to user objects, to alter nearly any data (such as forms and menus). Noticeably absent is a consistent handling for files or any sort of notification. We need hook_file.

So goal Number One: get media handling in core. The means? Add hook_file and make files into a 1st class Drupal object. We'll be creating a test suite for functionality in the hook_file patch to validate it and "grease the wheels" to get it committed.

The other goals of this sprint pale in comparison to the first in utility, but are still highly desirable and worthwhile.

Number Two: Refactor File Functionality in Core

Why should we care about a new aggregator for Drupal 7?

Posted by alex_b on July 18, 2008 at 3:17pm

I wrote a piece on our blog on why I think it is important that we unite efforts in aggregation land.

My intention was to make some noise around Aron's patch to core aggregator and get some of you guys to review ;-)

Session proposal for DrupalCon Szeged: A new aggregator for Drupal7

Posted by alex_b on July 17, 2008 at 6:44pm

I just entered a proposal for the session that Aron Novak and I would like to hold in Szeged: a presentation of a new extensible aggregator in D7:

Proposal:
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/new-aggregator-drupal-7

New aggregator:
http://drupal.org/project/new_aggregator

Group Blogging from Democratic Convention

Posted by steve hanson on July 5, 2008 at 6:55pm

I thought some of the folks here might be interested in a project we're working on - it's called Rootswire - http://www.rootswire.org - and is an aggregation of different political and place blogs. Our first big effort is to build a group site for all of the bloggers covering the Democratic convention. The site is up in beta right now (yeah, yeah, I know - it needs a lot of theming love) and we're currently working on the mechanical aspects of it, and getting bloggers on-board. It's all Drupal, and we're using feedapi and the calais module to import the feeds and automatically tag them.

Adding an external blog feed alongside native Drupal blogs?

Posted by halfiranian on July 2, 2008 at 5:17pm

Hi everyone,

I've been banging my head a little bit trying to get this sorted. Basically, I want members of my drupal site to have their own personal blogs and a section where they can read other members posts. This is obviously no problem if they're all using drupal blogs on my site.

However, many of the members already have their own blogs. It would be great if instead of submitting blog entries on my site, they could just add the url of their Blog feed and entries would automagically appear alongside other members entries.

New memetracker built using Drupal / OpenCalais

Posted by kyle_mathews on July 1, 2008 at 6:22pm

I ran across a new memetracker built on Drupal/OpenCalais and custom code. It looks very cool. Check it out at Polymeme.com

They're tracking some 25,000 blogs and apparently running them all through OpenCalias as part of the process for finding "memes" along with some human editorial touch.

The creator of polymeme writes more about the site on his blog:
http://evgenymorozov.com/blog/?p=397

Aggregator for D7 outline

Posted by aron novak on June 27, 2008 at 6:44pm

Have a look at PHP skeleton code for better understanding this outline.

Def:
Parser: Responsible for creating a feed data structure which is expected by the aggregator (hook_aggregator_parser). By design additional parsers could consume everything (ical, html pages, emails)
Processor: Responsible for accepting items and save them, show them to the user, etc (hook_aggregator_processor)

Planned modules:

* aggregator
* aggregator_node
* aggregator_light

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