I see that currently there is still a 'not yet complete for Drupal 5' type statement. Do I take it that this module is not being actively supported or developed at the moment. It would be a shame as the standard built-in Drupal Aggregator module is distinctly un-Drupal in the way that items within the feeds are not nodes.

I don't know if agregator has beed remedied in "6" (not that I know off) but I am very keen to bring all of my sites up to Drupal 6 for consistency sake and supportability. But a charity website is using FeedParser to collate Cancer news from various sources and I would hate to loose that ability. As each FeedPaser generated feed item is catogorised to insert it into a heirarchical taxonomy structure (by cancer type & cancer topic based on feed source) the agregator module is incapable of replacing it.

Is there any Drupal 6 version planed? any time line?

I wish that I had the time between day-job and site development/support to assist, but I can't even charge this to any of my commercial customers as they don't use or need it.

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budda
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry but there is no development time being spent on the Feedparser project. The v5.x branch was created on request from somebody else who was going to work on the project. But it appears they have not bothered.

I chose not to continue with the project because FeedAPI became useble, and there is some work to merge this in to Drupal 7.

The only thing I will eventually consider, is a migration path from FeedParser to FeedAPI system. But when this will happen is currently an unknown.

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John Bryan commented

Thank you for the reply.

At least it clarifies upgrade path i.e. Drupal5 + Feedparser --> Drupal 6 + FeedAPI + "Feed Element Mapper" (not available for some time?)

That Feedparser sites are probable best left at Drupal 5 until such time as "Feed Element Mapper" is available. (if they used the catagorisation facility)

That there may be substantial recreation of feeds and feed catagorisation settings involved, plus possible recreating node type customisations such as node-type specific templates.

Existing data should be safe as one of the advantages of FeedParser is that the RSS items are basically standard drupal nodes.

The main concern now is how long for the "Feed Element Mapper" module to be ready (http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_mapper) see feature request http://drupal.org/node/239652

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abqaria commented

i am having the same problem, but i can stay a little longer with drupal 5, did u succeed in migrating ?

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John Bryan commented

"Feed Element Mapper" is not available yet so I have not tried to migrate that particular site yet - although I could possibly use an auto-tagging module instead based on key-word searching to categorise feed elements. But with specialist feeds it would be good to be able to eplicitly match them to the relevant taxonomy term as it is a fairly complex heirarchical structure being used.

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abqaria commented

thanks you for replying

if i install the feedapi module and disable the feedparser, how can i export the feeds from feedparser and what happens to the aggregator content type nodes..i do not care so much on the tags

can u help

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budda
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Feedparser can export your feed list as a standard OPML. FeedAPI should be able to import this in.

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abqaria commented

thanks for replying

i think this feature is not in version 5

what about the already formed nodes type (aggregator)

thanks

shoukry

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John Bryan commented

Existing aggregated RSS items can be left as they are (?)

Just because you stop using, or even uninstall, feedparser - the news-item nodes are still valid. If uninstalling Feed parser removes the node type then you can always create a new node type of that name.

Plus there are now node type conversion modules, including en-mass conversion if you feel compelled to convert old news-items to your new format rather than maintaining legacy CSS entries etc.

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abqaria commented

so i will uninstall feedparser

leave the old items as they are

but there is no export option in feedparser 5

many thanks

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abqaria commented
Title: FeedParser for Drupal 6? (will there ever be any?) » How to export form feedparser 5

How to export form feedparser 5 to opml ?

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abqaria commented

i did disable the feed parser and enabled the feedapi

i did get the feeds from the database

and made an xml from them through
http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-opml-from-rss...

then imported it into feedapi as opml

the old items are kept as they are..but without a content type

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abqaria commented

update:

I added a content type aggregator_item and automatically the old items were assigned