By dfwgreg on

Hey everybody,

I used to be Drupal user back in the 4.3 days and switched to WordPress because of the simplicity. Now I'm pondering to move back because I'm not getting help in the WordPress community but before I do, I have a question.

I want to turn my personal blog into a social networking site and need to know if there's a plugin that can scrape content from a URL and display it as a post, like Facebook does.

In a shorter form, I want to be able to create a post when I enter a URL (cnn.com for example) and it creates a short post by scrapping the title, short summary (first paragraph?) and maybe some images.

Thanks for the help,
Gregory S.

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mradcliffe
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I haven't personally tested the functionality of Facebook-style micropublisher module, but it could do the trick. I haven't needed to make a facebook/tumblr like site.