Hello everyone. I'm new to the Drupal Community. I just bought two books, Pro Drupal Development and JQuery In Action and am in the process of "diggin in" right now. I would usually wait until I have a fairly high overview of capabilities before asking any question, but I kind of had a moment of enlightenment (this poor brain rarely does, but hey, it happens sometimes and when it does it is best to go with it).
I tend to use Google Notebook a lot. The idea came to me of how I want to manage my site. I want to update and manage my *new* site content with my Google Notebook (i.e. news articles would be grabbed from my Google Notebook with my comments and the tags being used to assimilate and manage the post). I played around with Google Notebook this morning and found I can grab a feed of it and have most of the XML that I will need to work with the contents of each "note". Now I just need to focus on creating custom modules that will use this XML in the way I wish (i.e. populate my website with data).
Obviously, the two books I got should give an idea of what my site will consist of. Lot's of juicy JQuery goodness and custom modules/design. Having said that, I have been a developer for a decade and know that I have no desire to recreate the wheel.
Before I begin on a quest that is distinctly my own, does anyone know if there are any web scraping type modules out there that I could modify/tweak/customize for my needs?
Regards,
~K
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awesome idea - has come up with docs too
i remember reading something about others screwing around with google docs and getting 'most of the stuff' to display correctly...
at any rate, you can generate lightweight nodes automatically from the rss of your notebook using something like simplefeed module:
http://drupal.org/project/simplefeed
simply pie
You could skip drupal altogether and use SimplePie... if you're dealing with media-rich feeds (youtube, et al), Simple Pie rocks. It would also be pretty simple to integrate the SimplePie stuff with drupal.
http://simplepie.org/