By kevinsmith on

Basically, I'm looking to re-create a function on the Facebook social networking site where users can enter an RSS or Atom feed into their profile and the feed will be imported into their blog. The reason I want to do this is because I'm creating closed social network, and some of the users already have solid blogs (on Wordpress or Blogger), but they'd like to share the blog entries (as nodes, searchable, and part of the user's blog).

- User enters 'http://exampleblog.com/feed.rss' into a custom field in their profile
- Feed items are added as blog entries (this is important, because I want them to be treated just like blogs created locally by other users).

Is this possible with FeedAPI? Or at all? Here's the user experience:

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loic_e’s picture

loic_e commented

I m also much interested in this feature

kevinsmith’s picture

kevinsmith commented

This seems like something I've heard chatter about on the forum before. Surely someone knows how to do this!

micahredding’s picture

micahredding commented

I'm very interested in this, as I'm creating a site in which the user info is entirely imported from social networks.

I was wondering if you can use MySite to do this? I installed MySite, but couldn't really figure it out.

codemann’s picture

codemann
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This is also what I'm looking for!

msburton’s picture

msburton commented

also interested. I want to have my daily delicious links automatically posted to my blog, a-la the WordPress plugin.

xerexes’s picture

xerexes commented

Well I'm working on this issue this weekend too - haven't found an answer yet though.

xerexes’s picture

xerexes commented

I am having problems with my FeedAPI install right now so I need to hedge a bit that this is the answer but FEEDAPI does work to import feeds and turn them into nodes -- and you get to set the node type it creates.

So have FEEDAPI turn the nodes into blog posts and they will show up in the user's blog of the user who create the FEEDAPI feed. That should address your scenario.

kevinsmith’s picture

kevinsmith commented

So has anyone figured this out yet?

halfiranian’s picture

halfiranian commented

I've done this with Feed API as suggested by xerexes.

It works fine.

The only issue is I can't think of a good place where to put the option for the member to add a link to their rss feed. Any ideas?

iaminawe’s picture

iaminawe commented

Out of interest....

Would this be detrimental to rankings if you have all the posts on your original blog and also on another Drupal site imported through Feed API?

http://greggcoppen.com
http://www.iaminawe.com

jackiepeters’s picture

jackiepeters commented

New to Drupal, would love more details on how you did this.

Thanks!