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Is there a plugin for this to just create automatic nodes from the rss fields you find on other sites?

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vm commented

in core you've the aggregator.module

in contrib two that come to mind are the feeds.module & the aggregation.module

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jpshayes commented

The combination of

Feedapi - http://drupal.org/project/feedapi

and

feed mapper - http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_mapper

Works good

There is also a new alternative to the two modules listed above.

feeds - http://drupal.org/project/feeds

I have not used the feeds module yet.

Feedapi and feed mapper work great for creating nodes from rss feeds

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fender-dupe commented

I think you misunderstood me, I want to automatically create articles out of other people's rss. For example you add rss of your favourite site for example engadget.com and it automatically pulls out the whole article and save it as node on your site, is this it? Is this the right module for this task?

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vm commented

Yes. they pull the feeds and turn the articles into drupal nodes. Reading the feedapi (which feeds.module is replacing) project page in total would have revealed this answer saving you from having to ask the question and wait for a response.

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fender-dupe commented

thank you vm

is there a way to import images too?

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jpshayes commented

Yes, you can. use Feed Mapper,cck and Embedded Media Field.

in the field settings for the content type, create a Embedded Image Field.

after you create a feed, the feed node will have a tab at the top that says map. Map the images from the feed to that Embedded Image Field.

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fender-dupe commented

so you have to manually add images, with adding url path to the image?

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jpshayes commented

When you map the feeds, it gives you an example of a feed item coming from that rss feed. Map the image from the feed to your desired field. After that, Remove all feed items and then refresh your feed. New nodes will be created. Every feed item from that rss feed that has an image will be mapped to the field you specified. Nothing manual except for the initial field mapping.

You really should set up the two modules and give it a try. Its a little confusing to set up, but after it is set up, The nodes created from the feed will automatically have the images mapped for them.

No ongoing maintenance, if that's what your concern is

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fender-dupe commented

I have a question about duplicate content, do you get any hits from Google if you have pnly rss nodes? What if Google index your site faster than the original one?

Is there a way to disable links inside the node to the original site? For example now the created node has links in the artcle, can you disable them?

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jpshayes commented

Well, I do not know much about search engine stuff, sorry.

About the links, you are pulling html over from another site. You have no control over the html included in the feed. You do have control of where you map certain parts of the feed. but not the html in the part you are mapping. So, I cant think of a way to disable the links.

You might be able to create a new input format that does not allow "a tags". and use that for the input format of the nodes created from the feed.

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vm commented

duplicate content is only when it's dupped on your own site I think?

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fender-dupe commented

how to use the mapper, i can't use mapper api, it is for older module feeds api

is theer a special module for feeds mapper?

I really dont nderstand how to use videos from youtube for example to create feeds from,

also the settings button under basic settings is not working under feeds, is this a bug, it is not clickable, the other links for fetcher, parser, processor are clickable

Any idea?

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fender-dupe commented

@JPSH

I can't see the map icons?

I want to to map each node from a feed to a term inside the taxonomy, I can not even do that?

Is it working properly

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aaront commented

I'm trying to use the above help (along with other threads) to map an image from a feed I created on another site. I'm using contemplate to control the rss on that other site. The path to the image comes through in the feed as an enclosure, basically just "enclosure url="http..."".

I have created an embedded image field to map to, and I'm able to map it (i've tried mapping options->enclosures->image->jpeg, options->enclosures->image, options->enclosures, options->raw-enclosure, as well as option->original_url (which is what the note for the (emimage module) says to do). In each case, I remove items and refresh but the image never comes through. If I try to edit the resulting node, it shows that cck field as an empty line.

I have tried different image formats in the view that creates the rss feed. I have even tried (again on the other site) using xml_elements to just output a new feed element containing the path to the image and then map that element to the embedded image field. Doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks!

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aaront commented

Nevermind, got the image to show up after going in to embedded media field configuration and allowing content from custom url under custom url configuration.

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fender-dupe commented

Mapping is useless, you can not select exactly what part of the code you want to map and where, trere is just a drop down menu and that is it. I think this module requires a lot more work!! It is not read for use yet.

Also in imported conetnt the image do not show because the path to the image is like this

/images/picture.jpeg

and not like this

domainname.com/images/picture.jpeg

so the images of course don't show up, is there a fix to this?