FeedAPI
FeedAPI aggregates feeds on a Drupal website by generating light weight items or nodes from feeds. It provides a straightforward configuration for most use cases and is extensible through an API. FeedAPI integrates with OG (but does not require it).
An outlook on Drupal 7 - chime in!
The maintainers of FeedAPI are currently leading efforts to improve Drupal's core aggregator with the innovations learned from contrib projects such as Aggregation, SimpleFeed or FeedAPI. The goal is to get Drupal core aggregator module to a point where it can replace FeedAPI. This would essentially mean that the basic feedapi.module would go away and modules that implement FeedAPI functionality would be ported to Drupal's core aggregator. Such implementing modules would be for example SimplePie parser or FeedAPI Node processor which ship with FeedAPI or separate projects like Feed Element Mapper.
We need help with coding, documenting and reviewing patches. Your input is very welcome. For more detailed information on the planned improvements, please refer to "Improvements to Aggregator". You can help even if you're new to Drupal and have never worked on core. See "novice tasks" on "Improvements to Aggregator".
FeedAPI Features
- Use views to build listings of your feed items.
- Aggregate RSS/Atom feeds with SimplePie (get SimplePie from http://simplepie.org/ and see README.txt).
- Aggregate RSS/Atom feeds with Common Syndication Parser (part of FeedAPI).
- Aggregate iCal feeds with iCal parser.
- Aggregate CSV files with CSV parser.
- Aggregate KML feeds with KML parser
- Build a customized parser with FeedAPI Extensible Parser
- Store feed elements (tags, authors, coordinates, etc.) in CCK fields, taxonomy or locations with the Feed Element Mapper.
- Aggregate comments from various sites and create Drupal comments with FeedAPI Comments.
- Store Feed Items in RDF Format with FeedAPI RDF processor.
- If you use leech - check out the upgrade script to FeedAPI.
- Developers: Want to get started on developing on FeedAPI? Check out developers' guide wiki page.
- Developers: FeedAPI Doxygen documentation
- User's guide in Drupal's handbook (this is a wiki page, so you're welcome to improve it)
Sponsors of FeedAPI: Summer of Code 2007 | Development Seed.
Fun feed generator service from one of the maintainers: curerssaddiction.com
Releases
| Official releases | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.7-beta2 | 2009-Jun-19 | 85.25 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 6.x |  |
| 5.x-1.5 | 2008-Dec-05 | 60.17 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 5.x | |
| Development snapshots | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2009-Jul-03 | 81.8 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot |  |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2008-Dec-22 | 60.65 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot | |
