feedapi

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.

I've just spent a couple of hours learning the FeedAPI Parser, erm, API. Pretty straight forward. The reason was to test out an idea of using the nifty QueryPath library to parse the RSS feed markup and keep it easy to understand in the PHP code.

The module is based on the SimpleXML parser code, with most of it either ripped out or commented out.

I'm not really sure where i'm going with this - and i've done no benchmarks to see if it really is faster than any of the existing libraries like Simplepie. It might be a waste of time!

I am having a real tough time trying to import rss images over into individual nodes..I CAN do video and kudos to
http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/34

for some great tutorials..I have tried several suggestions outlined in
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16799

My source is the following http://www.u2start.com/rss/photos/

I have even tried the new feedapi scraper-but I do not know how to set that up.
http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_scraper

I have built an aggregator site (http://wwwatts.net) using some home grown software written in groovy to do aggregation and publishing pages. The result is okay but now I want to shift to Drupal for it and the FeedAPI is nigh on perfect. However there are some things which were required on wwwatts.net which I don't see how to do in FeedAPI.. so I just wrote a little module for one of these things.

Namely...

In my system I have a series of nodes that are created every hour, each one with a set of environmental paramaters. the date is stored as a cck datetime with the time ignored and the time is stored as an integer in a cck feild and is from 0-23. Lastly is a field called station which contains a code for a particular station. Now at run time during creation of the nodes, which is handled by feedapi, a series of physics equations which has been converted into php functions and are activated by a set of trigger rules and rule sets.

LinkedIn is still lacking a public API in spite of several announcements in 2007 and 2008 (they even confirmed OpenSocial support but so far did not deliver anything).

I did it. A huge milestone in my Drupal development life. I completed my first custom module. While at this point it would only work on my site (I hard coded the name of content types and some other variables from the notification module) but it works. I have attached it but know that you can’t just add it to your site. At minimum you might have to change the name of the feed-item content type on line 85.

notification_block.zip

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.

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.

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...