By idared on

I am working on a website where a large portion of the content will be coming from RSS feeds, and I would be commenting on them, and inviting my readers to comment on the feed items.

I am aware of the node aggregator module, but I would like to be able to choose which incoming feed items to promote into nodes and not make all of them into nodes automatically.

Searching the forums I came across a discussion from years ago, where someone summed it up perfectly:

(...) would life be better when news items were not nodes, but when there was a "nodify"-link (so to speak)? The "nodify"-link would transform a 'RSS news item' into a 'news item node'.

One could either transform all news items to nodes or just a subset like the news that you want your users to comment on or that you feel is worth promoting to the front page. (...)

This is exactly what I need. How do i do it?

(Aggregator module doesn't allow promoting the feed items to nodes, and node_aggregator import module automatically converts all the feed items, and doesn't allow selective "nodifying", if I understand correctly.)

Thanks for any help.

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idared’s picture

idared commented

Bump.

Is this really something that can't be done in drupal?

battochir’s picture

battochir commented

bump. I'd like to know this as well. As rss becomes more mainstream, this will become more of an issue I think.

wim

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Maniac8888 commented

I know this thread is a little old but I was just now searching for the same thing.

Obvioulsy, with not replies, it either can't be done or no one is interested.

Thoughts anyone?

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Leeteq commented

I have recently requested a way to quote between content types.
http://drupal.org/node/63528

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travelfun commented

I think the new aggregator2 module could be used, and you can set it in queue, published or something else.

find the module here. http://drupal.org/node/32384

explore and venture, be innovative.

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Leeteq commented

Ref the original poster:

"I am aware of the node aggregator module, but I would like to be able to choose which incoming feed items to promote into nodes and not make all of them into nodes automatically."

What is needed is a link that allows to nodify single items out of the feed, still using aggregator to avoid nodifying all.
Several good reasons not to want all feed items as nodes. It is not sufficient to be allowed to set this on a per feed basis. Need it on the node level.

Just as the "Blog this" link does in the aggregator blocks, but we should have the opportunity to choose node type (to blog, or make a forum post out of it, or into the description of a new image, etc.

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