By decon on

I did a search on here and found some older posts regarding RSS and nodes. I wasn't sure if there has since been an easy way to take an RSS feed and make the posts into nodes, with the ability to assign taxonomy terms to them. It seems it would be useful to be able to classify incoming news from various sources and break it up into categories.

I am looking to build a news portal site with articles and content and would like the ability to take in RSS feeds from blogs and other sources and quickly assign each to different taxonomies so that I can structure categories and provide relevant content for each main idea.

Just looking to find out if there is an easy solution to this or something I might have missed in the forums.

thanks!

decon

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SimonP commented

I've pondered this one as well.

News feed items are not treated as nodes. So although you can put them into categories, these are a different set from the ones that you can categorise nodes by.

I've found myself creating two different sets of categories but containing the same items, repeating the classification I use for news feeds for classifying nodes. But this doesn't strike me as though it can be the best way to go about things...?

One way round it that I've considered is to use the news_page module which allows news feeds to be treated as nodes (and therefore classifable using the node taxonomy). I believe this works with 4.6 but it's not clear how far into the future it will be supported (and I'm not enough of a techie to consider doing it myself).

If anybody's got a suggestion for another way round it it'd be most welcome....

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decon commented

WHere is the news_page module? I did not see it in the 4.6 downloads. Is it an older download?

I am like you in that I do not understand why the classification and treatment of RSS feeds is separate from nodes. It seems there should at least be the option to put feeds into nodes which have their own pages and tag elements of feeds into different categories.

Perhaps there could be a default option for a feed, and then the admin could classify the news into something else.

Or editors. It would help the community aspect of a site because if a person was managing local news from various blogs, sites, etc, they could quickly assign content to various categories which it belongs to.

decon

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SimonP commented

The module is in the CVS reposirory - meaning it is more 'as is' than formally contributed modules. As a precaution, make sure you're backed up before installing (although I installed it without any problems).

The module is here:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/news_page/

There's some background information here:
http://drupal.org/node/24348

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