By lelandnielsen on

Let's say I find a news article or blog post I want to link to, but rather than just posting a link on my site, I want to have a "Teaser" in a node or block that would then link to the external page. I think this is different from RSS because I don't necessarily want to subscribe to the feed for the site; I only want the content for one post. Is it possible and if so, how would one configure this?

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justbradford’s picture

justbradford commented

I was trying to figure the exact same kind of thing. Would like to have a block that would display headlines and teasers for external articles (in this case, reviews of my music)... A bonus would be the ability to sort manually so that the best reviews would be at the top...and second sort criteria could be date. I'm on 6.x, though... http://www.bradfordrogers.com is the site...

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justbradford commented

Anybody have an idea?

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WillHall commented

What you are looking for is called a scraper - and it's a taboo subject.

http://www.nicklewis.org/node/962
http://drupal.org/project/example_web_scraper

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justbradford commented

Thanks! Hmmmm not sure that's exactly what I mean, though... I don't, for example, want to mine a whole month of somebody's blog and then choose certain posts to display on my site. I just want to, say, enter a link to a review of one of my CDs or performances, etc., and have Drupal grab the title, publication or website/blog name, author, picture thumbnail (would be cool to be able to choose which one if the article has several, a la Facebook) and teaser. I could even settle for entering the author/publication info manually...then just want to be able to collect those review links in a sortable block (the block would not include the teaser, but the items could show up on front page w teaser and thumbnail... Almost like a content type for external articles, much like the external video content type.

None of this would be represented as my own work; in fact, I would *prefer* that it's clear these are links to external content. not sure why this is taboo? But I don't think I'm describing a "scraper"...am I?

Thanks!

Bradford

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justbradford commented

I think what I am thinking is more like the Web Links module.... Just want to be able to have nice theme-compatible sidebar block of links, and to also have teaser nodes for front page (to go with story teaser nodes and maybe blog teaser nodes), which would link to the original external content...