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 Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 0:08 Post subject: [Plugin] Feed Importer |
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This plugin allows you to create posts from XML feeds. It works with all types of RSS, Atom, RDF and some other feeds.
Install the plugin, go to Tools > Feed Importer, select categories you want to import the feed in, and click "Import".
Feed Importer Free v0.2 (development has been discontinued)
Feed Importer Pro v1.3
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* Import XML feeds such as RSS, RSS2, Atom and others using SimplePie parser
* Import/Export b2evolution posts including all properties, custom fields, comments and trackbacks
* Import CSV-formatted text files
* Export posts as CSV or XML files
* Scheduled import. Automatically checks feeds for new entries and creates new posts
* Multiuser interface. Access to Import and Export features according to user/group permissions
* Option to skip existing posts importing only new/missing ones
* Option to create published or draft posts
* Option to limit the number of imported posts
* Optional link back to the original post
* Custom header and footer for each imported post
* Imported feeds get saved for future use
* XML feeds manager allows you to view/enable/disable or delete saved feeds
* Imported posts get validated, misplaced tags get fixed based on group settings
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| Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 21:26 Post subject: |
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Plugin updated, now works in b2evo 3.x
You don't have to update it if you use b2evo 2.x
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| Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 20:02 Post subject: |
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@sam2kb
It would be nice to be able to add a Title/Heading to a feed page via the Plugin settings.
I added one via a hack of the blog's "Long Description:"
EG: <h2 class="bTitle">B2evolution News Feed</h2>
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sam2kb
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:11 Post subject: |
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| It would be nice to be able to add a Title/Heading to a feed page via the Plugin settings. |
Technically there is no feed page, there are only blogs and categories. The plugin creates new posts in existing categories, it can't change anything but posts. So if you'd like to add a header or a footer to each post I can make this feature, but editing the blog title is outside of the plugin's scope.
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| will it read and post the content/feed license? |
It can get lots of info from feeds (maybe even the license), but where do you want to display it? Again, it's only possible to create posts, feeds don't have enough info to create blogs or categories. So if you want to display this license info above or below the each imported post, I'll make this feature.
Thank you guys for testing. BTW there is a new version available in SVN which can import/export b2evo posts, so feel free to play with it ( on non-production blog  )
The differences between Feed and b2evo import are as follows:
- excerpts
- post type (page, link etc.)
- link to url
- tags
- correct post locale
- visibility status
- comments (open, closed etc.)
- views
Basically it'll create the exact copy of the original post except it won't keep any user-related info and a list of renderers.
So if you ever decided to merge blogs you'd love this feature
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:40 Post subject: |
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| sam2kb wrote: |
| It can get lots of info from feeds (maybe even the license), but where do you want to display it? Again, it's only possible to create posts, feeds don't have enough info to create blogs or categories. So if you want to display this license info above or below the each imported post, I'll make this feature. |
For the license, the end part of the post should be fine. Say the feed-post it posted is "CC By-SA 3.0 Unported", then it'll show just that. If it's an active link, then maybe an active link also. Basically, whatever license the feed provided or the post provided... so if it says something like "ABCDE" then I guess that's the license "ABCDE" (whatever kind of license is that).
So at least, we won't have an issue from the original authors, specially the Creative Commons licensed content/feed/posts.
For the categories, since not all feeds actually send categories (I only know Blogger/BlogSpot feeds that puts the categories/labels correctly in their feeds), the best way will be the ability to put a particular feed to a particular b2evo-blog category.
So say I'm feed-posting the posts of Mozilla-QA Team, the posts will be under my Mozilla-QA Category.
^_^
Haven't tested yet  watched Race to Witch Mountain yesterday Saturday Then Sunday today here, family day. Will do later this evening or tomorrow Monday.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:44 Post subject: |
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the best way will be the ability to put a particular feed to a particular b2evo-blog category.
So say I'm feed-posting the posts of Mozilla-QA Team, the posts will be under my Mozilla-QA Category. |
This is how it works now  . You can only post in existing categories.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:47 Post subject: |
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Hmm... I'm testing it for v3.1-alpha, so my suggestions below may not be applicable (so please do tell).
Suggestions:
- A link back to the original article
- A list of feeds currently active
- And a way to enable/disable each feed
- Ability to add tags perhaps?
- Ability to set how far back the initial activation will "post" (I haven't tested what will happen if I re-submit the same feed)
The CCL suggestion earlier can come later hehe
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- A link back to the original article
- A list of feeds currently active
- And a way to enable/disable each feed |
Good ideas
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| - Ability to add tags perhaps? |
It already creates tags from post categories (checked on b2evo and wordpress feeds)
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| - Ability to set how far back the initial activation will "post" (I haven't tested what will happen if I re-submit the same feed) |
Do you mean an option to limit the number of imported items?
The plugin won't add the post if an item with the same date and title is already posted by the same author.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 23:55 Post subject: |
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| - Ability to add tags perhaps? |
It already creates tags from post categories (checked on b2evo and wordpress feeds) |
Hmm.. you mean if there's a "tag/category" available based on the Feed itself?
What I mean then, is a way to set a tag to the post created when the feed is imported, similar to how we choose a category for the imported posts.
For example:
Feed A - I set to be posted under Category "Linux"
Feed A - I also set it to have the tag "Debian" and "Ubuntu"
Or I'm missing something? Hmm, will try under v2.x hehe. ^_^
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| - Ability to set how far back the initial activation will "post" (I haven't tested what will happen if I re-submit the same feed) |
Do you mean an option to limit the number of imported items?
The plugin won't add the post if an item with the same date and title is already posted by the same author. |
For the first part, a way to tell to for example, import feeds starting from 2 days ago. This way, if a feed provides up to 2 months ago (that will be a lot of items to import), I can just limit it to start from 2 days ago.
Or maybe instead of "days", "Import X number of feeds". Basically, only for the initial import.
For the ( ) part, cool. ^_^ I just haven't tested re-importing the same feed
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| Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 14:21 Post subject: Character Limit |
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| There appears to be a 60 character limit in the URL text box. Is that a hard limit or is there a way to increase that so I can enter a longer URL? |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 15:22 Post subject: |
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i totally missed this one, i see this for the first time
this looks like exactly what i need.. i was trying to make ¥åßßå's rss reader so that it could make new post with rss feed..
However it stops working when a special character gets involved..
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| Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 21:00 Post subject: Re: Character Limit |
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| There appears to be a 60 character limit in the URL text box. Is that a hard limit or is there a way to increase that so I can enter a longer URL? |
New version is in progress... for now you can try http://tinyurl.com/
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| Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 21:02 Post subject: |
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| tilqicom wrote: |
| However it stops working when a special character gets involved.. |
Are you talking about your plugin? I think this one should work good
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