Releases for FeedAPI

First of all, you should update from 1.3 version because serious bugs were fixed.
If you upgrade a current installation:
After updating the module, please visit update.php and apply the update. This update will fix the built-in content-type (Feed) of FeedAPI which was broken in FeedAPI 1.3. This is maybe not important for you if you do not use the built-in content-type.

Parser Common Syndication requires PHP 5.1.3.
To see the changes, see CHANGELOG.txt in the module main directory.

First of all, you should update from 1.3 version because serious bugs were fixed.
If you upgrade a current installation:
After updating the module, please visit update.php and apply the update. This update will fix the built-in content-type (Feed) of FeedAPI which was broken in FeedAPI 1.3. This is maybe not important for you if you do not use the built-in content-type.

Parser Common Syndication requires PHP 5.1.3.
To see the changes, see CHANGELOG.txt in the module main directory.
There are huge changes in the views integration, most important: more fields and filters.

- Full domain/scheme information for tags
- Better test coverage
- Various bugfixes
- Function name changes

Full domain/scheme information for tags
Better test coverage
Various bugfixes
Function name changes
FeedAPI Node Views added
Hungarian translation is added

As usual, you can find a couple of bugfixes in the release. You should always use the latest official release.

You can find the following new features in the release:
- Allow IP-address feed URLs at SimplePie parser
- Allow long URLs (up to 2048 char)
- Allow at OPML import to override or not to override feed title and description with the info from OMPL file
- Add skip capability of feeds. You can pause automatic feed update

Known issues:
- if you create a feed w/ refresh on create settings, the promoted setting does not work (http://drupal.org/node/246604)
- OPML import works for some OPML files but sometimes it does not work, depends on the exact file. When it's extremely urgent, you can use a workaround, which is described here: http://drupal.org/node/250852
- The module is not compatible with poormanscron. If you use poormanscron, you have to refresh your feeds manually. Relevant ticket at poormanscron issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/235328

As usual, you can find a couple of bugfixes in the release. You should always use the latest official release.

You can find the following new features in the release:
- Allow IP-address feed URLs at SimplePie parser
- Allow long URLs (up to 2048 char)
- Allow at OPML import to override or not to override feed title and description with the info from OMPL file
- Add skip capability of feeds. You can pause automatic feed update

Known issues:
- no FeedAPI Node Views, then no fancy Feed items at the link of the feeds
- if you create a feed w/ refresh on create settings, the promoted setting does not work (http://drupal.org/node/246604)
- OPML import works for some OPML files but sometimes it does not work, depends on the exact file. When it's extremely urgent, you can use a workaround, which is described here: http://drupal.org/node/250852
- The module is not compatible with poormanscron. If you use poormanscron, you have to refresh your feeds manually. Relevant ticket at poormanscron issue queue: http://drupal.org/node/235328

Hopefully the last beta version before FeedAPI 1.2 for Drupal 6 will arrive.
FeedAPI Node Views is still missing. Please be patient, the next release will contain a working FeedAPI Node Views module.
Attention: People who seeks for FeedAPI Aggregator, let's see: http://drupal.org/node/230050

The next stable release after FeedAPI 1.0 has arrived. If you use Drupal 5, definitely this package is for you.
There are tons of bugfixes. The new features are:
- FeedAPI node prevents empty node titles
- use hashing for detecting whether feed has changed before processing it
- don't refresh feed more often than 1800 seconds
- added cross feed deduping (for details, see http://drupal.org/node/193909 )

The first beta of FeedAPI for Drupal 6. It still lacks a functioning views integration (feedapi_node_views module). All other parts should be working fine.

Important: feedapi_node_views does not work currently. Views for Drupal 6.x has no API documentation yet. Once it is ready, feedapi_node_views will be updated too. FeedAPI Aggregator has been removed. It could be continued as a separate project.

Features:
# Install it on a PHP4 or PHP5 site with a MySQL or a PostgreSQL database
# Cache feed downloading to save bandwidth and time
# Turn feed items into nodes
# Turn feed items into lightweight items – use FeedAPI like the good old core aggregator
# Adjust cron processing of feeds based on elapsed time. No more php timeouts
# Get statistics about feed processing
# With Feed Element Mapper, map feed item elements to CCK fields or taxonomy
# Import your feeds from anywhere with OPML import
# Export OPML
# Inherit taxonomy and organic group settings from feeds to feed items
# Views support, having a predefined views for exploring feed items for a specific feed
# Content-type based configurable presets
# Promote items to the front page according to your settings
# 1-click feed creating block. Just supply the feed url and the feed is created
# Purge or not purge outdated feed items – it's your choice
# Automate tests (simpletest module yeay!) - easy checking for problems on your installation.
# Auto-detect feed URL, you do not have to know the RSS/ATOM link, you can just supply the site URL, for example http://drupal.org
# Access to a documented API, you can write parsers or processors and use FeedAPI’s power in feed management
# Ready-to-translate .po files in the package

Known issues:
- Under currently unknown circumstances, feedapi_inherit throws
error messages: http://drupal.org/node/206840 .

Main changes since the last beta:
- pot files were added. We're looking for translators :)
- Statistics performance tunes
- Improved help text / helper links
- Restored postgresql compatibility
- A number of bug fixes

FeedAPI stat values can possibly be modified or lost when you
upgrade from beta versions, so please make sure to back up your database.
There is a tested upgrade script, but backups are always your best friend.

I'd like to thank Alex Barth (http://drupal.org/user/53995) and
Jose Reyero (http://drupal.org/user/4299) for their help with patches
and suggestions.

This release contains various bug fixes. If you are using a lower version, please upgrade.

If you are using feed type detection with parser_simplepie module (if you don't know what this is, you probably don't use it :) please check out this issue: http://drupal.org/node/205706#comment-692707.

As always when you're upgrading, make sure that you do the proper backups.

Enjoy.

Beta 2 release. Run update.php if upgrading from a previous version.

Changelog:

• Smaller code base.
• If you delete a feed, items are not automatically deleted anymore. Because of possible PHP timeouts, feed deletion does not include feed item nodes deletion.
• OMPL export now automatically pops up a file saving dialog with the opml file. (instead of displaying raw XML)
• Pager on feed management page.
• Extended settings on node add page hidden for users without feedapi advanced options permissions.
• More robust duplicate checking in feedapi_node
• Various bugfixes.

Beta 1 release

Features:

• Easy to install default package with common presets
• Arbitrary number of feed enabled node types
• Aggregation of feed items as nodes or as aggregator module-like light-weight items
• Views integration
• Organic Groups integration
• Feed items optionally inherit taxonomy from feeds
• Default parser simple pie (same parser as in simplefeed module)
• Alternative parser "common syndication" uses SimpleXML (requires PHP 5)
• API fully exposes feed and feed items handling

FeedAPI is compatible with PHP4 and PHP5.

Heads up: Updating from a pre - 0.6 version requires some tinkering with settings if you used feedapi_item processor. After install, you will have to reconfigure your feed content types and open and save all feed nodes in order to propagate the settings.

Release 0.6 with optional views integration.

Future versions _after_ 0.6 will have feedapi_item renamed to feedapi_node and might break existing installations when upgrading.

Use 0.5 version.

Latest stable version of FeedAPI.

Latest development snapshot of the Drupal 5.x compatible branch.

• Be aware that FeedAPI is moving a lot at the moment, the latest snapshot is probably not entirely stable.
• Check, whether there are upgrade scripts to run every time you upgrade to a new snapshot.
• If you update from beta 1 or from a version prior to feedapi.module revision 1.23.2.83 check expiry and update settings on your feed nodes.
  Storage for feed settings (expiry, update existing) has changed. Old values won't be taken over and defaults will be presumed (Don't refresh, never expire). There will be an update script converting the old settings format to the new one for the beta2 version.
• CAUTION: dev packages after 2008-Jan-15 can cause a loss of statistics data. There is a tested update step, but please backup the database before running the update script.

Changes:

• Feed creating form is a full node form by default. The old only-URL form can be enabled.
• New "advanced feedapi options" permission - enable or disable parsers and processors settings
• Various UI improvements
• Bugfixes

If you want to use SimplePie Parser, please see the README.txt for further instructions. The simplepie.inc is no longer the part of FeedAPI drupal.org distribution.

Known issues:

• wrong date in some cases

In this release two conceptual changes were made.
1) feed = node by default. (and the node representation always exists, others can exists too)
2) parsers and processors settings are handled by feedapi centrally. These settings are available to create presets per conten-type and adjust those per-feed too.

See the README.txt for more details, the installation and the basic things are described here.

Here is the alpha release of the FeedAPI.

Need to know

After installing the modules, please visit immediately admin/settings/feedapi . It's a must here to setup the default parser and processor configuration. Decide what you want to use mainly (feedapi_aggregator or other), and give weights to the parsers and processors.
Suggested configuration changes:
1)
feedapi_aggregator -> -10 (for both parser and processors)
2)
parser_common_syndication -> -10
feedapi_feed -> -10
feedapi_item -> 10

Then generally it's not suggested to mix different processors now (for example: item processor: feedapi_aggregator, feed_processor: feedapi_feed), but if you would like to turn on both it should work.

Parser_common_syndication works only with PHP5.

Known problems

- have to setup default configuration, FeedAPI can't really detect incompatible processor configuration
- feedapi_aggregator is very experimental
- deleted feed items will be created again if the items are still present in the feed

Credits

Here I would like to say thanks all of my mentors for helping me all the time!
Special thanks for Alexander Barth, who created feedapi_aggregator module - this module mimics the core aggregator.

If you like the idea to try out something "still in development and design" piece of code, then download it and share your thoughts with me (via the feature requests and bug tickets) about the code and the design.