Importing and synchronizing content using Feeds
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- 1. 7 drupal Importing and syncing content using Feeds Peter Vanhee 2nd October 2011 - DrupalCamp Spain
- 2. Who am I? ‣ Consumer and contributor to Drupal for over 5 years ‣ Co-founder Youth Agora @youthagora and Nuvole @nuvoleweb ‣ Web consultant in Barcelona @pvhee
- 5. Content is aggregated and synchronized using Feeds
- 6. Use Cases ‣ Build Activity streams using feeds from Twitter, Facebook, ... ‣ Batch import sets of users from file ‣ Import Commerce Products ‣ ...
- 8. Feeds is... ‣ Import / aggregate framework ‣ Create and update drupal entities out of the box: nodes, users, taxonomy ‣ Real-time feeds support
- 9. Related ‣ Migrate ‣ Aggregator ‣ Table Wizard ‣ User import ‣ Node import
- 10. Feeds as the standard for piping content
- 11. Feeds usage drupal 6 drupal 7 statistics from drupal.org Statistics from drupal.org
- 13. Fetcher ‣ Http ‣ File upload A complete list is at http://drupal.org/node/856644
- 14. Parser ‣ CSV, RSS1, RSS2, Atom ‣ OPML, Sitemap XML ‣ XPath for XML/HTML ‣ JSONPath for JSON ‣ YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare ‣ iCal A complete list is at http://drupal.org/node/856644
- 15. Processor ‣ Node ‣ User ‣ Taxonomy ‣ Commerce Products A complete list is at http://drupal.org/node/856644
- 16. 2011.drupalcamp.es my drupal site Example #1 Import and sync RSS Feeds
- 17. Feeds importers are configurations of Fetcher Parser Processor
- 21. create nodes of type Feed item
- 22. fields in RSS fields in Feed item
- 24. /import
- 26. We can do this with Drupal Core Aggregator too!
- 27. Let’s try spawning Feed A User 1 Feed B Feed A User Feed B Feed C Feed C 1 User 2 Feed X Aggregator (core) Feeds
- 28. Spawning
- 29. Add Feed = Add Node
- 30. Example #2 Import images
- 31. A node of type Story will hold a Flickr image
- 32. the Flickr XML feed { http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo?format=rss_200&tags=drupalcamp
- 33. Parse XML with XPath expressions //item title link description geo:lat geo:long media:thumbnail/@url
- 34. Fetcher http Parser XPath Parser Map targets from XPath Processor Node processor
- 35. select XPath XML parser
- 36. source is XPath Result fields in Story
- 39. Importing
- 41. We have problems ! Tags are not imported correctly
- 42. Feeds Tamper http://drupal.org/project/feeds_tamper
- 43. Enter Tampering Input Field Output Field explode drupal feeds sevilla drupal feeds sevilla html_encode Me</a>posted a <a href=”.”>Me</a> photo:</p> posted a photo
- 46. Add your own tamper plugins snippet from html_entity_decode.inc
- 47. After importing... tags are now correctly split
- 48. Importing Big Stuff ‣ Feeds has Batch support ‣ Feeds can run on cron jobs in the background
- 49. Field support ‣ Text ‣ Email ‣ File ‣ Multimedia ‣ Image ‣ Address ‣ Link ‣ Geofield ‣ Taxonomy Tip: check Feeds issue ‣ Password queues for patches ‣ Date ‣ Integer
- 50. Feeds as a Framework ‣ Supports import/sync of Commerce Products (via Commerce Feeds) ‣ Straightforward to add custom fetchers, patchers and processors using Feed hooks (check feeds.api.php)
- 51. Finally... when not to use Feeds ‣ Content does not need to be stored by Drupal ‣ Complex content migration tasks
- 52. Now... Real-Time? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Publisher Subscriber Yes. Here you are. Are we there yet? Slide taken from @alexb presentation on Feeds
- 53. Enter PubSubHubBub Publisher Hub Subscriber What does this solve? 1. Notifications to Subscribers managed by Hub 2. Send only what is changed and when it gets changed
- 54. Euhm.. so what does Feeds do exactly? Feeds makes Drupal a PSHB Subscriber Update feeds in real-time from PSHB Hubs e.g. Blogger, Wordpress, Superfeedr, ...
- 55. Thanks! Peter Vanhee @pvhee
- 56. Questions? Peter Vanhee @pvhee