Aggregator: publishing syndicated content
The news aggregator is a powerful on-site news reader that can gather fresh content from news sites and weblogs around the web and make it available from a Drupal site using common syndication formats including RSS, Atom and RDF.
Users can view the latest news chronologically in the main news aggregator display or by source.
Site administrators can add, edit, and delete feeds and choose how often to check each individual feed for updated news. Site administrators can also tag individual feeds with categories, offering selective grouping of some feeds into separate displays. Listings of the latest news for individual sources or categorized sources can be enabled as blocks for display in the sidebar through the block administration page.
The news aggregator requires cron to check for the latest news from the sites being aggregrated. Drupal also provides a machine-readable OPML file of all of your subscribed feeds.
Aggregator options include
- administer your list of news feeds administer >> aggregator.
- add a new feed administer >> aggregator >> add feed.
- add a new category administer >> aggregator >> add category.
- configure global settings for the news aggregator administer >> settings >> aggregator.
- control access to the aggregator module through access permissions administer >> access control >> permissions.
- set permissions to access new feeds for user roles such as anonymous users at administer >> access control >> permissions.
- view the aggregator page.
- run your cron job manually at your sites cron page.
- read about configuring cron jobs.