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June 10, 2004

The world's easiest syndication aggregation method?

I just noticed Drupal will pull in an RSS feed and just deal with it like another kind of node. I found out by noticing a link back to my post about the preconfigured versions the other day. They've set up a Feedster search for "drupal.org", suck it down as RSS and build the page automatically(?).

Mad possibilities. Seriously.

Posted by P6 at June 10, 2004 10:31 AM
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This is one of the way-cool things about Drupal.

But if you really want to bring RSS in as full-fledged nodes (i.e., items are searchable and categorized according to your taxonomy), you should use the add-on import module rather than the aggregator module that ships with Drupal. The former adds entries to your nodes table, the latter does, um, something else, but the items aren't indexed by the search engine or even permanent. One drawback of the importer module, at least in the 4.4 version: It has a very strict parser, so it might not bring in all the feeds the aggregator (or even the 4.3 version) will. But the author's aware of the issue, at least.

Posted by agaffin at June 11, 2004 04:08 PM

I'm still finding all the good stuff. I got the list of contributed modules last night and saw the import.module. But thanks for the advice, because a was gount to use the aggregator first and try the import module after getting settled. I'm not sure there's a reason to do it that way, now that I think about it.

Feeds and aggregators still need the bugs worked out across the board, not just with Drupal. Playing with the news aggregator last night I found a feed that choked it. I had the occasional bit of grief with FeedOnFeeds too. And you know what? I'm not giving a hard time to folks with strict parsers. Microcontent syndication is big enough that we all ought to be generating the feeds correctly.

Posted by P6 at June 11, 2004 04:19 PM