Insert content generated by external script to Drupal CCK nodes

By tekken on 14 Jul 2011 at 15:24 UTC

I have an external script that generates content and I want to insert that content to Drupal CCK nodes.

How do I do it? Is there an API for this? Do I have to use an import module? Or do I have to insert the content in the database directly?

Comments

nevets commented 14 July 2011 at 15:37

I would start with the feeds module to see if that will meet your needs, it will depend on the format of the external data.

mcfilms commented 14 July 2011 at 15:39

How is the content exposed? Have you looked at the Feeds module?

EDIT: Nevets beat me to it.

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tekken commented 15 July 2011 at 12:24

I have looked at the feeds module and guess that's one possibility, but wouldn't it be a workaround?

Is there a more direct or elegant way to get node content into the Drupal db that you can recommend?

nevets commented 15 July 2011 at 14:25

Feeds is a pretty elegant and flexible way to do what you want. The alternative is to write a custom module.