This is a must! I'm using the Feeds: YouTube parser to map YouTube videos using Feeds. It would be just perfect to map the thumbnail remote URL to a Filefield!

What do you think?

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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I don't really understand this request. What does this have to do with FileField Sources? What functionality are you expecting?

mohammed j. razem’s picture

mohammed j. razem
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I'm requesting to map Remote URLs of images to File fields, using FileField Sources module.

Example:
A feed has a "thumbnail image" source: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A4sNcbomA3s/default.jpg
Using Feeds, this can be mapped to a File field using Remote URL function in FileField sources.

I'm requesting to create a Feeds mapper to map URLs to File fields.

Is that clearer?

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quicksketch
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Hmm, well there are a couple of issues that make this issue probably unlikely:

- FileField Sources is just a *widget* on the form field. It doesn't provide an API to retrieve URLs.
- This module doesn't actually keep track of external links at all, it just uses the URL to retrieve the file locally.

I've said in the past that I don't anticipate this module to be used as an API (#775756: Using programmatically), but if you have suggestions (and patches) to make that a reality I'm open to improving the code. I don't think that I'll ever include a Feed Mapper directly in this project though, as I've personally never used Feeds and I wouldn't want to try to keep the implementation working as the module moves forward.

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quicksketch
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
2pha’s picture

2pha
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I was looking for this functionality too.
Did you end up finding a way to do it Mohammed?

2pha’s picture

2pha
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It seems that image field in Drupal 7 already accepts a url for the image (why filefield sources is just a widget) but there was an error in the feeds module that wouldn't allow a url to be mapped to an imagefield.
After changing the line detailed at:
http://drupal.org/node/1612246
All worked fine.