Use Rules to trigger feed importer

I'd be really interested to know this too :)

Marking as duplicate of #1005128: Rules integration & enable modules to customize imports.

What's being asked here is an action to trigger a Feeds import. It does not appear to me that the other thread is discussing the same issue. I need an action component that initiates a Feeds import possibly passing parameters such as the file to be imported and other settings. Or am I missing something?

sorry for the duplicate post

I would also like to know how to do this. I currently have a feed in a standalone form that I would like to be able to configure and fire with rules.

Hi, I think I am now able to fire an import from Rules with some php code. I followed this tutorial: http://nodesforbreakfast.com/article/2012/09/23/programmatically-execute...

Following along https://drupal.org/node/622700 "Programmatic operations" and to extend this to rules enable PHP Input filter and create a new PHP action component with 2 or 3 arguments $type, $title and $uri containing this snippet

$node = new stdClass();
$node->type = $type;
$node->title = $title;
$node->feeds['FeedsHTTPFetcher']['source'] = $uri;
node_save($node);

Now you can use this action component for your rules to trigger imports.

I've added #8 to the developer documentation https://drupal.org/node/622700.

Please edit over there your experiences ;)