Feed Aggregator Setup

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 13:46

This video shows you how to display content from RSS and Atom feeds on your site by using the core aggregator module. Includes instructions on how to display imported feed items in a block.

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by Lex (not verified) - 07/07/2008 - 03:07

Your Tutorials Rock!

Thanks man! I'm new to Drupal and this RSS tutorial video really helped. I appreciate it.

by Manan (not verified) - 08/11/2008 - 06:31

A few questions

How do I show only excerpts of news from feeds and hyperlinks within the news are not being parsed. I have < a > in the html allowed list, but the links in the content are not links? Any ideas?

by learnbythedrop - 08/11/2008 - 11:49

The built in feed aggregator is a simple one and doesn't allow too much control over the content that it pulls in. So if you want to present only excerpts I think that you might want something more advanced like the Feed API module. Feed API captures the content as nodes so you can use Views to control the display and the items will show up in search results.

I'm not sure about the link issues you're having. Perhaps a link to the place where you're testing it out would help.

by Manan (not verified) - 08/11/2008 - 12:07

I tried Feed API it is too

I tried Feed API it is too complicated to use. I have been able to rectify the links issue. I tried Feed API but there I wasn't able to get it to show the feeds let alone excerpts of them. :P

by edt (not verified) - 03/18/2009 - 08:15

how to lose the News aggregator title

This is a good resource, thanks for your efforts.
I dont like this title "news aggegator", it's only useful to techies and I'd like to just rename it selected blogs and news, or something.
How can I do that?

by learnbythedrop - 03/18/2009 - 09:16

Aggregator Title

I assume that you're talking about the title at the top of the page at http://learnbythedrop.com/aggregator. Take a look at http://drupal.org/node/24593 and see if that solution helps. Otherwise I haven't been able to find anything more on the topic.

by Jason - 05/25/2009 - 01:38

Exactly what I was looking for...

Thanks for the tutorial. Sometimes the simple things are hardest to figure out in Drupal. I missed the all important step of enabling the module and your tutorial got me on track and answered my questions.

Keep up the good work!

by souleye Cisse (not verified) - 10/26/2009 - 01:12

aggregator not showing feeds

I've not been able to update my feeds so they're not showing. For 3 weeks I've not been able to find someone who can give me a clue as to what I'm doing wrong. When I run update, I get this message:
Warning: MySQL server has gone away query: INSERT INTO drup_watchdog (uid, type, message, variables, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (1, 'php', '%message in %file on line %line.', 'a:4:{s:6:\"%error\";s:12:\"user warning\";s:8:\"%message\";s:687:\"MySQL server has gone away\nquery: INSERT INTO drup_watchdog\n (uid, type, message, variables, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp)\n VALUES\n (1, 'aggregator', 'The feed from %site seems to be broken, due to an error \\"%error\\" on line %line.', 'a:3:{s:5:\\"%site\\";s:32:\\"Chad and Sudan agree to end feud\\";s:6:\\"%error\\";s:31:\\"not well-formed (invalid token)\\";s:5:\\"%line\\";i:17;}', 4, '', 'http://givepacc.com/?q=admin/content/aggregator/update/2&a in /home/givepacc/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

Any help will be appreciated.