Feed Importer (RSS)

[FI-DD]

With the help of this plugin you can import news from a RSS feed.



This is a basic version based on the import module from Strawberry 1.1.1.

I'm planning to create a more advanced version in a few weeks when I got the time.

So any suggestions are welcome.



Update:

You can add as many feeds as you like. You can import feed by feed or all feeds at once (importing all feeds at once takes a lot of time so it might stop due to maximum execution limits).



Installation:

Upload it to the plugins folder and activate it.

[asson]

Hi,

Thanks for a great plugin, but i was just wondering if does this import data from a Dynamic rss feed?

Will the imported data from the given rss feed be updated utomaticly each time the source website updates it self?

[FI-DD]

You can either use a Cronjob (that's a server feature - don't know if you have it) to periodically run the script, for example once every hour.



Or you can change the plugin so it runs everytime someone visits your site or everytime you visit the admin panel.

[DeathfireD]

@FI-DD - Can you expand this more so we can have more then 1 rss feed being auto added? Maby expand it so we can have up to 3 or 4 feeds being added.

[FI-DD]

Updated. Please check the first post.

[asson]

FI-DD thanks alot, yes i do have Cronjob and will give it a try.

Thanks for the new modification to the plugin.

[DeathfireD]

Updated. Please check the first post.

thanks for the update. Now I can have news from partner sites added every few hours on my site

[afxback]

as I have used and found it only imports Titles of rss feeds? no short no full news imported? but I am surprized in admin panel, I see the imported feeds without titles and without authors but only with date and category? is this for all?

[FI-DD]

This plugin is only working with the following rss tags:

'title', 'description', 'pubDate', 'category'



If your rss feed outputs the news using different tags it won't work.

[asson]

Hi FI-DD

Just tested the lase modified one, it's really great.

This plugin is only working with the following rss tags:

'title', 'description', 'pubDate', 'category'

Can't you modify the Plugin and make it more dynamic, to add own costum tags? and also make it to work dynamicly with XFields?

For ex;

We say that i have made a costum tag with name LINK, and there is also an XField Field with the same name, when i click the import link for importing news from RSS Feeds, the data wich belongs to LINK tag goes directly into the XField LINK Field and so on for other martching tags and field.



Those tow features will be very nice if they could be done.

I'm not a coder



Thanks alot for all your support.

[afxback]

Feed-import.php is really a good plugin. I have two problems with this and I tell here if any solution could be possible.
1. There is no configuration to chose maximum_items to be imported as I think. I want to import 5 news items from each feed every day, not more. There are some of feeds more than 50 items and all of them are imported at once. So I have to delete a lot of new feeds imported each day.
2. Configuration for automatic import based on time schedule like"Cronjob". Because some servers do not support cronjob.
As I have tested it dose not import none english feeds as good as english chars. I think there are some problems in importing titles of none english feeds and characters. There are "news tile" and "url title" in cutenews and it seems some feeds do not mach this I think. It creates an id for each feed item in database but there is no link to title of records of some feeds and no descriptions. I mean feeds which are supported by this plugin('title', 'description', 'pubDate', 'category' ).

[FI-DD]

Regarding the maximum items:

In feed-importer.php try changing this:

Code: Select all

if(!news_exists($result['title'][$i], strlen(replace_news('add', $result['description'][$i])))){

to this:

Code: Select all

if(!news_exists($result['title'][$i], strlen(replace_news('add', $result['description'][$i]))) and $j < 5){

[marcusmagalhaes]

I think there are some problems in importing titles of none english feeds and characters.


http://www.fenajud.org.br/index.php

29 milhхes de trabalhadores estгo fora da Previd... (imported)
29 milhões de trabalhadores estão fora da Previd... (original)


Lula afirma que "a carga tributбria pode ser meno... (imported)
Lula afirma que "a carga tributária pode ser meno...(original)


Any suggestion?

[Partyism]

I imported a rss feed, but it only shows there short story, there is no link to full-story.

Check: http://www.gelderlander.nl/arnhem (is the page which rss i imported)

[FI-DD]

It's because I supposed the feed only shows enough text for the short story. So everything coming from the feed is saved as short story. The full story stays empty.

If your feed shows a lot of text you can easily change the script to put the first x letters into short story and the rest into full story.