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Compared modules
- core Aggregator
- Aggregation
- SimpleFeed
- FeedParser
- Leech
- FeedAPI
Quick specification
(About parsers in detail, see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4519)
Project website
PHP versions
Drupal core compatibility
Size of the code
Date of the last release
Parser
core Aggregator (5.0)
4, 5
all
56K
last Drupal release
built-in
Aggregation
5
4.7, 5
98K
2007-Nov-25
PHP's simplexml + pluggable parts
SimpleFeed
4, 5
5
75K (without simplepie.inc) / 355K (with simplepie.inc)
2007-Nov-16 Version 1.0
SimplePie
FeedParser
4, 5
4.7
243K
2007-May-21 (only devel snapshot)
SimplePie
Leech
4, 5
4.7, 5
172K
2007-May-24
leech_news_parser
FeedAPI
4, 5
5
213 K (without simplepie.inc) / 493K (with simplepie.inc)
2007-Oct-30 1.0 beta 1
SimplePie and Aggregation-like PHP5 parser
Feature matrix
Feature
core Aggregator
Aggregation
SimpleFeed
FeedParser
Leech
FeedAPI
Create simple items from news items
X
X
X
Create nodes from news items
X
X
X
X
X
Process feeds in cron time
X
X
X
X
X
X
Set per-feed refresh time manually
X
X
X
X
X
X
Adaptive per-feed refresh time
X
Process feeds on demand
X
X
X
X
X
OPML Import
X
X
X
OPML Export
X
X
Node type of feed
-
Feed
Feed
-
any
any
Node type of feed item
-
Feed Item
Feed Item
aggregator item
any
any
Promote to frontpage setting
X
X
X
Dynamically tag incoming news items
X
X
X
Handling authentication (HTTP/FTP)
X
News items can inherit og settings from the feed
X
X
Duplicate handling from duplicate articles from different feeds
Organic group integration: Feed items inherit group from feed
X
X
Sticky taxonomy: Feed items inherit taxonomy from feed
X
X
X
Auto taxonomy: Feed items inherit taxonomy from original RSS feed
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Revisions support for feeds and feed items
X
Automatically generate feed item titles if they dont exist in feed
X
Views support
X
X
4.7.x
X
Token support
X
Displays Images from Feeds
X
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X