By potential on

Hey Guys,

Can anyone advise me how to make a block that sends Email Updates of new content based off the RSS feed? This service is offered by www.FeedBlitz.com, but I'd like to have it drupal integrated. Feedblitz is on this drupal site: www.thoughtfulchaos.com

It would work like this... Say I have a blog. Reader of my blog notices that they can put in their email address to receive a daily update of what I write each day. Every night, an email containing the teasers of new content, if any, is sent to the "subscribers" of the blog.

I know this would help increase traffic to our sites. How can this be done?

Thanks,
Dan

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potential’s picture

potential commented

any advice?

Binary Blonde’s picture

Binary Blonde commented

I wish I could offer you advice on this. I am looking for the same thing, as I currently use feedblitz.com on my blog currently. I would love to have it integrated in Drupal, but unfortunately, I am not adept with PHP enough to create a module or add to a module already in place.

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caporion commented

I like this idea. I'd also like to see the ability to select what gets sent (only a specific forum or set of forums for example) and to have the option to list all items even if they aren't new. This could be used to send out an update as far as open issues for bug tracking etc.

-Dan Zimmerli

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potential commented

I'm suprized there isn't more interest in this type of module. How much would you guys estimate it would cost to pay a developer for this functionality?

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mlncn commented

I would like to add my two cents and offer of $$ to have this developed.

People should be able to choose what they want to be alerted to from the site (e.g., any new node that has X and Y tags applied to it) and choose whether they want this alert as RSS (if they're cooler than me) or e-mail.

This could also be the base for sending alerts to cell phones and such...

This would be important for a commercial job I'm doing; I'd like to see it developed as part of the Syndication module or some other central part of Drupal, rather than hacked together by me for my site. Any takers?

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rlbravo commented

I`ve been testing al the suscription modules, newsletter, notify. None of them are able to solve lot`s of aspects that rss feeds in drupal has. The only module that allows suscription to certain categories is "subscriptions" module. It lacks of the alternative to have different parallel suscriptions. Notify sends all content, it can`t select categories. Newsletter module is the only one that send`s content to anonymous and registered users.

With rss by mail we could create multiple suscriptions from different content.

It would be great! i apply!

rlbravo

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disorder commented

I think this would be a great idea, any progress with this? But does it make sense to use RSS when all the data can be pulled from the DB? the advantage of using RSS is you could use external RSS feeds?

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Yura Filimonov commented

Still need to identify a module for sending a category/taxonomy term via email.
Or simply RSS to email.

Thanks.

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alexandreracine commented

How about theses?

http://drupal.org/project/notify

http://drupal.org/project/subscription

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Notify doesn't seem to work with Anonymous users (at least I'm not aware of anyway to do this), which I think is very important for Email Syndication services. Most of the other mail syndication/subscription modules I see don't support anonymous users either...

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alex_b commented

could the feedburner module do the job for you?

http://drupal.org/project/feedburner

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I ended up using FeedBurner's Email RSS feature, works great.