Feed Aggregator Setup
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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Your Tutorials Rock!
Thanks man! I'm new to Drupal and this RSS tutorial video really helped. I appreciate it.
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?
Feed Excerpts And Links
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.
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
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?
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.
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!
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.
Great video
Extremely helpful. Within the first few minutes of this video, you answered my question. Thanks!
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
I have been trying to us Aggregator to display Facebook Wall/statuses on my site. Facebook provides an RSS/Atom feed which I was able to establish in a block on my sidebar. However, only links to the albums in Facebook are working. All other posts use my site as the base URL.
It looks like this Drupal usesr is having the same issues:
http://drupal.org/node/775690
Any help would be appreciated!
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
I haven't tried pulling feeds from Facebook but based on the info in the link it seems like the issue is on the Facebook side of things. I would try one of the modules that connects directly to Facebook and see what happens.
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
Dear Rob!
I totally love your tutorials... Many thanks for these!
I can display feeds on my website but clicking on these, user will leave my website to go to source website... How can I either
1. open a new window while clicking on a feed item ..... (so my website remains there)
or
2. open feed within my website...
Regards
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
Unfortunately the core aggregator is pretty limited in that it doesn't give you options on how to open links. A better importer that offers more options, but is also more complicated is the newer Feeds module. http://drupal.org/project/feeds
If you're committed to importing content I recommend that you work with the Feeds module as you will have many more options for how the content is displayed and organized with that module.
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
Great Video, but I could not understand how could you get the feed link. Can you explain please. Best
Re: Feed Aggregator Setup
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "get the feed link." If you mean the link that I plug into the Feed Aggregator settings, that just comes from the site that I want to pull in content from. Sometimes it will has and address that ends with "/feed" and sometimes the site will have a link that specifically is identified as an RSS feed.
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