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By eusid on
Hi guys me again! Sorry to hassle you guys. I have an rss feed from another site I want to pull the information to my site. I have added the feed in feed aggregator. How do I get this to display on the page I want it to display on? The page is a node which is a menu link on my front page it is a Software News link. I left the page blank as I want this feed to be the first thing on the page. How do I go about getting the feed to display on this page? Thanks a bunch guys! I read and searched the site and found all kinds of issues but never the simplest of how to get it to display :)
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After polling the items are
After polling the items are showing up fine in the feed aggregator however I want them to show up on the page of my choice.
Perhaps you could create a
Perhaps you could create a URL alias, that might do the trick.
Ok guys, It is working
Ok guys, It is working properly. However it only pulled the last 30 items. I would like to pull the entire thing and add it to my feed. Also, in order to update it says it requires a properly configured cron maintenance task. So it won't poll the site for updates unless I configure cron.php to do so? If i have to configure cron to poll this site please tell me what to code in cron.php.
Also, I was reading you can pull a feed and have it copied to a node on your site so that the user does not have to go off site to read the rest of the article. If someone can direct me as to how to do this please do. If it is a large undertaking to do this it is okay. I do not mind so much users leaving the site, but if I can keep them on my site longer that is better!
Also, if you know how I can pull the entire feed from the beginning to end please let me know that as well. Thank you much!
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You can use the http://drupal.org/project/feeds module (successor to the feedapi module) to make nodes from feeds.
okay thanks a ton man. also
okay thanks a ton man. also do i need to setup a command line in cron in order to poll the feed? it said so next to the poll every " " option in drupal. if so what is that command line?
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cron is a hosting environment issue. See http://drupal.org/cron for more info.
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Please don't post duplicate threads. I've deleted the dupe, thanks.
The answer is the same as in my previous comment: http://drupal.org/project/feeds or http://drupal.org/project/feedapi.
Once you got the feeds creating nodes, you should be able to theme the nodes (and therefore change the links and whatnot) however you like using standard node theming techniques.
The answer is the same as
The answer is the same as before. I believe you because it worked, however, each node only contained the teaser. It did not actually go into the url and scrape the entire article and bring it to the node. I created another thread because this one was dead. Everyone assumed that feeds and feedapi worked just fine when it gives me errors when turning the modules on and off however i believe that may have been CTools and not these two. I want it to pull the entire article to the node so users don't have to go offsite to read the article. However, I have solved this by using external links module to just open a new window when they click a news item.
I would like to do it as I stated before still. I would like to pull the entire article. So does feeds with feed api does it actually go into the url of the news item from the feed and pull all of the text from the news item and put it in the node? If it just puts the teaser that is next to the link on the news field it does me no good. As stated before I could only get it to create nodes using the title of the feed item and the teaser. I could not get it to go into the url of the news item and pull the body text of the article.
The description suggests that
The description suggests that this module may be able to get the entire text you are looking for:
http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_parser_exhaustive
yeah, it does suggest that.
yeah, it does suggest that. however, i was unable to get it to. I will try again and see if it doesnt work. maybe i am overlooking an option.