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wassimans
wassimans

Reputation: 8682

Using Drupal, how to get access to old, no longer available, feed entries?

I'm working on a project where I'm asked to aggregate a number of feeds from various websites into a local/searchable database. The project/site is Drupal based and old feeds entries are key data to the project. My question is:

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 211

Answers (2)

electblake
electblake

Reputation: 2185

Another option is the mature http://drupal.org/project/feedapi or the newer http://drupal.org/project/feeds both of which are designed for parsing feeds into drupal nodes, users, etc.

Feeds (the next generation of feedapi) has the following useful functions:

Import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records.

* One-off imports and periodic aggregation of content
* Import or aggregate RSS/Atom feeds
* Import or aggregate CSV files
* Import or aggregate OPML files
* PubSubHubbub support
* Create nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records from import
* Extensible to import any other kind of content
* Granular mapping of input elements to Drupal content elements
* Exportable configurations
* Batched import for large files

Good Luck!

Upvotes: 2

Richard
Richard

Reputation: 1172

Drupals feed aggregator module in Drupal is the official way to do this.

In the settings there is a select tag of 'Discard items older than:' This only goes up to 6 weeks, but this can be over-ridden in a custom module by using:

function MYMODULE_form_aggregator_admin_settings_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
  $form['aggregator_clear']['#options'][157784630]  = "Nearly Never aka 5 years";

}

As mentioned here

This will automatically grab your feeds for you and store them in the aggregator_item table

Upvotes: 3

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