Can simplepie feed parser be patched into aggregator core module?

By Conceptual Guerilla on 13 Feb 2007 at 04:23 UTC

I've looked at several alternative contributed aggregators, including feedparser and leech. In it's basic design and function, aggregator does what I want. There's just one problem. The feed parser is slow as dirt. It appeared, when I played with feedparser that the simplepie parser was very quick -- noticeably quicker than the aggregator feed parser. Soooo . . .

Has anyone patched simplepie into the aggregator module? This is a real problem, as I presently have 20 or so feeds enabled, and plan to use a lot more than that. As it stands, the site takes several minutes to load while the cron run works through the feed updates. I need to expedite this process, and simplepie appears to do that.

While I'm at it, I have a feed where the title includes the html tag "span". The aggregator prints the tag, instead of parsing it, so that the feed title is html gibberish instead of the actual title. Anyway to fix that?

BTW, I am using Drupal 4.7, if that makes a difference.

Comments

Same need here

ematters commented 13 March 2007 at 00:13

I'd like to use SimplePie for feed parsing and aggregation. I think it's the way to go, generally speaking I like solutions which avoid re-inventing the wheel. The SimplePie guys want to focus on making a great RSS feed parser and it works really well, I think we'd get a better benefit here at Drupal if we'd re-use what they have done.

If anyone sees a SimplePie integration module flying around let me know ;-)