By tixx on

Hi there,
I wish to know if there's a module like an aggregator but with moderation features.
I have to aggregate some feeds but I want to select which items I want to publish on my website.

May somebody help me?

Best regards,
Tixx.

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ciordia9’s picture

ciordia9 commented

That would require some form of a hold & parse queue on aggregation and I've never seen that in the wild as of yet. Everyone just either wants the content, or they don't. Keeping up with moderating others live feeds could easily turn into a work nightmare.

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tixx commented

Then, it's possible to "transform" into nodes all the items of a feed. Doing this, it's possible to delete the items I don't want to publish.

srodriguez’s picture

srodriguez commented

that's what aggregator2 and aggregator node do. So yes they can be turned into nodes and you can delete the ones you don't like but I have found with aggregator2 if you delete an item during the next cron run it's back right back.

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kowalke commented

What about the combo of starting feed items as NOT published mixed with the setting in Aggregator2 that deletes non-published items. This creates a list of articles and anything I don't publish after, say, 2 days, automatically is deleted. That approximates what you need.

I'm still testing the method, but it seems to work.

srodriguez’s picture

srodriguez commented

I think it might work because you can set them to not be published in the settings. But just know that Aggregator2 can be a bit buggy but if it works out of the box then you should be good. It's just when you want extra features like taxonomy tags for each item does it become a problem.

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tixx commented

But aggregator2 doesn't exist for Drupal 4.7?

seanberto’s picture

seanberto commented

Hey,

I'm interested in doing this as well - and think that I might have come up with a simpler solution (please shoot it down if it doesn't work - I might be missing the point).

Can't you just create a feed category called "Promote Feed" and manually assign it to feeds? You can then add this aggregator category block a sidebar or whatever and then theme it to hide that category name.

Is that not thorough enough or sloppy?

-sean

Sean Larkin

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newdru commented

I just was searching for similar functionality and ran across this thread.

Anybody implement any of the methods here or come up with a new one?
If so is it working well or a pain to administer?

thanks in advance