Petfinder integration anyone?

The big question is: what animal management system is already in place for the shelter? Based on the few posts on drupal.org, it does not seem like there is a large developer community for Drupal pet management. We seem to be the only folks discussing it in the past few years. While you could develop a system in Drupal, I'd first look at the shelter's existing animal management system or have them use PetPoint (http://www.petpoint.com/) or Animal Shelter Manager (http://sheltermanager.sourceforge.net/). PetPoint automatically uploads pet data to http://www.petango.com and Animal Shelter Manager (ASM) can upload to http://www.PetFinder.com. Both apps/systems offer some sort of integration so that you can display pets on your own site as well.

I'm in the same boat in regard to getting pet records online. The shelter I work with uses PetPoint, which shared data with PetFinder until a month ago. PetPoint just started Petango.com to compete with PetFinder. So now I am looking at grabbing PetPoint data, processing it on our own web server so that pets can display on our site, and then passing off that structured data to PetFinder. We cannot be absent from PetFinder.com. They are the 'google' of pet searches.

I still wonder if pulling data from PF into Drupal is a good idea as you are simply regurgitating data that you originated (you pass off data to PF, then pull it back).

Another approach would be to use Drupal to make your pet nodes, have a custom module generate a CSV file, and then auto-upload that and JPGs to PetFinder's FTP server with each cron. If you email "help at petfinder dot com" and ask for 'DataFileCreation_members.pdf', you'll get instructions for formatting data for their use.

PetFinder will also supply a breed list that you could load as a taxonomy.

Any News on this yet? I have a client who has a website devoted to cats and dogs and has asked me a few times about being able to search Petfinder.com from within her site. I am not a developer, but I have my API keys through Petfinder and would be willing to test any new module in development or help construct a look and feel of a module.

Thanks
Will

Been working on this off/on and think I'm almost there - anyone willing to help bring this project home?
BTW - I am only working on bringing the pet info in as nodes - after I am thinking of doing a full addon module for a more complete PetFinder API.

Here is what I have so far - not working but pulls some data
Parser & Mapper

/**
* Parses PetFinder Feed
*/
class PetFinderParser extends FeedsParser {

  /**
  * Parses a raw string and populates FeedsImportBatch object from it.
  */
  public function parse(FeedsImportBatch $batch, FeedsSource $source) {
    // Get the file's content.
    $string = $batch->getRaw();

    // Parse it...

    $result = simplexml_load_string($string);
    
    
    // this will iterate
    
    $item = array();
    
     foreach ($result->xpath('//pet') as $pet) {
    $item['guid'] = (string) $pet->id;
    $item['animal'] = (string) $pet->animal;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('//breed') as $breed) {
          $item['breed'][] = (string) $breed->breed;
      }
    $item['mix'] = (string) $pet->mix;
    $item['age'] = (string) $pet->age;
    $item['name'] = (string) $pet->name;
    $item['shelterId'] = (string) $pet->shelterId;
    $item['size'] = (string) $pet->size;
    $item['sex'] = (string) $pet->sex;
    $item['description'] = (string) $pet->description;
    $item['lastUpdate'] = $pet->lastUpdate;
    $item['status'] = (string) $pet->status;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('//option') as $opt) {
        $item['option'][] = (string) $opt->option;
      }
        $i = 1;
    foreach ($pet->xpath('//photo') as $photo) {
          $item['photos'][$i]['url'] = (string) $photo->photo;
          $item['photos'][$i]['id'] = (string) $photo['id'];
          $item['photos'][$i]['size'] = (string) $photo['size'];
          $i++;
      }

    }
  
    $batch->setTitle('Pet Finder');
    $batch->setItems($item);
    /* notes */
  }

  public function getMappingSources() {
    return array(
      'guid' => array(
        'name' => t('GUID'),
        'description' => t('Unique ID.'),
      ),
      'animal' => array(
        'name' => t('Type'),
        'description' => t('Pet type.'),
      ),
      'breed' => array(
        'name' => t('Breed'),//Double check return
        'description' => t('Describes pet\'s breeds.'),
      ),
      'mix' => array(
        'name' => t('Mix'),//Double check return
        'description' => t('Describes whether pet mixxed.'),
      ),
      'age' => array(
        'name' => t('Age'),
        'description' => t('Pets age.'),
      ),
      'name' => array(
        'name' => t('Name'),
        'description' => t('Pets name.'),
      ),
      'shelterId' => array(
        'name' => t('Shelter'),
        'description' => t('Shelter ID number.'),
      ),
      'size' => array(
        'name' => t('Size'),
        'description' => t('Pets size.'),//Check content
      ),
      'sex' => array(
        'name' => t('Sex'),
        'description' => t('Pets sex.'),
      ),
      'description' => array(
        'name' => t('Description'),
        'description' => t('Pets full description.'),
      ),
      'lastUpdate' => array(
        'name' => t('Update'),
        'description' => t('Pets last update.'),
      ),
      'status' => array(
        'name' => t('Adoption Status'),
        'description' => t('Pets adption status.'),
      ),
      'option' => array(
        'name' => t('Attributes'),
        'description' => t('Pet notes.'),
      ),
      'photos' => array(
        'name' => t('Photos'),//double check return types
        'description' => t('Pet photos.'),
      ),
    );
  }

}

HOOK

$info['PetFinderParser'] = array(
    'name' => 'Pet Finder parser',
    'description' => 'Parses custom data from Pet Finder API.',
    'handler' => array(
      'parent' => 'FeedsParser', // A plugin needs to derive either directly or indirectly from FeedsFetcher, FeedsParser or FeedsProcessor.
      'class' => 'PetFinderParser',
      'file' => 'PetFinder.inc',
      'path' => $path,
      //'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'PetFinder'),
    ),
  );

Do you have the site up so I can see what the results look like?

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! this is what I needed to keep going - I will be posting info/solutions for using this for the feeds api soon. But I am getting the information from the xml and am sooo happy

Subscribe- looking to republish Petfinder adoptable animal info on a Drupal site. Thanks

Subscribed also - very interested in a solution.

Subscribing.

http://www.petnotice.com

I'm also interested in this functionality for a drupal site

If you don't want a new node created for each animal, the Petfinder iframe widget works well and was easy to setup and run within minutes (inserted using php input). We also have http://www.reloadedpc.com/php/petfinder-api-php-class-library/ working (also inserted as iframe using php input), but was a bit of learning curve so it took about 2 days to get running. HTH

Update: The petfinder api results received via xml aren't 100% accurate. It's pulling animals that are no longer available, weird behavior with lastUpdate (discovered after attempting to filter by date), etc. Petfinder indicates this is a known issue.

I use Petfinder's API and some coding to translate the ping pong game to pull a rescue's pets using ColdFusion and will be migrating it into PHP soon. I use it to backfill pet records in PetPal Manager using the rescue's petfinder ID (ex. MI755) and I can pull adoptable or adopted pets from their records. Then I just loop them into the database records.

It would be great to have a page with all of the current listings on it. Kind of like the "Near You" page on petfinder.com or something similar to that. I would personally like to have a page for current pet listings and a page with current shelter locations. Both listing pages could even render within the same page.

I love the module, it's just that there is no working UI right now... I just would like the module to have some sort of way to query the service for up-to-date records. Currently the only functionality that this has is to manually enter the pet or shelter ID in the address bar to access the record.

Thanks for all your hard work! I hope to see this updated soon!