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| Project: | Memetracker |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1-alphpa5 |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
This is very cool. I've got a couple of questions about how to make use of this. I'd like to include a couple of different subject-matter trackers on a couple of different Web sites. In that context:
1. FeedAPI lets me select feeds, but all the feeds seem bundled into one big list. Is there a way to separate out the feeds for subjectA from the feeds for subjectB so I can have Memetracker only work with a subset of feeds? (I know I can select feeds from the master list)
2. Is there a safe way in MySQL to add a new feed or remove a new feed? Basically, I'd like to programmatically update the feed list over time and I know that means touching the feedapi SQL structures as well as the list Memetracker runs off of?
3. I'd like to embed the output of Memetracker into my sites. In your earlier proposals, you mentioned the output as an RDF file. Is there any way to get an RDF, RSS, or XML data file/url from this?
4. Any good tips for managing multiple memes and feeding them into different sites?
Thanks uber-much in advance!
Comments
#1
1) You could do this. There are algorithms that sort content into categories. You would train the algorithm so it knows what kind of content goes into what categories then run each feed through the algorithm. Once you did this, you'd have a list of feeds which fit into each category.
2) Yes, but it might be complicated. FeedAPI stores feeds as nodes so adding and removing feeds would involve adding and removing nodes. All possible of course but the Drupal node data is stored across a number of different tables.
3) Right now there is no way to output memetracker via RDF, RSS or XML. I think the best way to move forward would be to integrate memetracker with Views. Views can do RSS right now and I think there is work in progress to allow Views to output at XML and RDF (no clue when those will be ready). There's also the Services module which allows data to be shipped in and out of Drupal in all sorts of ways. I don't know much about it though so am not sure how Memetracker could integrate there.
4) RSS I think is the best way to move forward from here. If Memetracker were integrated with rss, you could create an RSS feed for one memetracker on one site then import it using FeedAPI on another site. From there you could use views to fashion pages and blocks.
Hope that will help.