RSS & Aggregation

I am aggregating Feeds from various site to aggregate at my site. Many of these feeds provide complete post instead of just a summary/teaser. I would like to aggregate only the teasers of these feeds (instead of the complete feed), and let the users go to the complete feed if required.
Is there a way for me to show summary only? At the moment, if the feed it aggregate is a full feed, it will show the full thing as well. I want to trim down the aggregated content, say to only 250 characters.

Thanks,
Victor

The major new feature of OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.8 is integration with Feed Element Mapper (feedapi_mapper).

The development of this functionality was sponsored by Hudson Street Media using our bounty system:
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/15
http://openpackage.biz/bounty/14

Feed Element Mapper is an add-on module for FeedAPI that maps a feed's elements such as tags or (in this case) videos to taxonomy or CCK fields on your site.

This enables your site to aggregate videos from other sites.

I have set up various video feeds on our site as a demonstration. Click on the 'Feed item' links to view the videos.

I am very excited to announce the first Daylife Developer Challenge for building applications using the Daylife News Aggregation APIs. Folks hosting Drupal based websites on http://ecproject.org and http://comminit.com have built drupal pages/blocks/modules serving syndicated content using the Daylife APIs earlier.

The prizes are: a 3500ドル first prize and two 750ドル runner up prizes. The contest ends midnight of July 25th

I'm just wondering how to import mediawiki XML and turning it into a wikitools drupal system. This should theoretically be simple, but I'm not sure where to begin.

Edit 07 August 2008 Edit 07 August 2008 This proposal has been passed along to Knight Foundation for consideration. http://drupal.org/node/292587

Introduction

Edit, July 10 This proposal has been passed along to the Knight Foundation for consideration: http://drupal.org/node/281048 End Edit

This project will create two complementary sites: a Local Publishing Platform paired with a Regional Aggregation Hub.

The Publishing Platform will support a range of activities, from a K12 school magazine, a community paper, a writing project (something like the National Writing Project or Youth Radio), a college paper, etc.

Here I summarize what you should expect from core aggregator for Drupal 7.

As maybe you heard, my application was accepted to write a new aggregator for Drupal core :) : http://code.google.com/soc/2008/drupal/appinfo.html?csaid=1222E090E875B36D
Here as a first step, I would like to collect lots of possible problems in aggregation area. Please share your opinion about these questions to help Drupal 7 to have as good aggregator as possible :) :

The items are not necessarily ordered by relevance.

Node creation

Hi,

There are many people, who ask a possibility to filter feed items based on keywords in order to exclude them from processing (or possibly based on some other criteria like on timestamp, etc.). This issue has been raised under most aggregator modules and such feature request is in the pipeline of FeedAPI project as well:

FeedAPI:
http://drupal.org/node/160692

The usual recommendation for such problem is to relay on standard syndication and use Views module afterwards for filtering.

Is anybody working/experimenting with aggregating comments for articles? I'd love to see a (FeedAPI) processor for pulling in comments for aggregated articles.

See also feature request here:

http://drupal.org/node/241935

This is my SoC proposal fro Drupal. Please feel free to post questions, suggestions or send me an email.

--------- Project proposal: RSS Overhaul (incl. Encryption) ---------

Improve over current RSS implementation:

• Richer RSS options allowing to include/exclude text contents, images, related comments, digg-like links, etc.
• Allow secure RSS and add access control settings in Admin interface accordingly.

Problems:

• Drupal's core aggregator does not satisfy the requirements of state
  of the art aggregation applications. E. g. core aggregator lacks
  pluggable configurations or the possibility of creating nodes from
  feed items.
• There is an explosion of contrib modules that try to cover the
  deficiencies of Drupal's aggregator in one or the other way. Previous
  attempts to unify aggregation functionality had limited success.

Moved to official ideas list: http://drupal.org/node/237907

I want to propose a project for building a module that pulls news content from a global news service called Daylife (http://daylife.com)

Daylife is a global news aggregation service that offers an Open API platform called DayPI (http://developer.daylife.com) for any developer, blogger, news service to pull stories and photos about any topic in the world. The API returns data in XML, JSON and PHP serialized formats. You can read the Daylife About page at http://www.daylife.com/page/about to learn more about the company. All platform documentation is on http://developer.daylife.com/docs

Status: Added to official ideas list http://drupal.org/node/234652

I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS & Aggregation.

News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).

Summary:
I want to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called meme_tracker and the other called machine_learning_api. The meme_tracker module will use the machine_learning_api to intelligently filter and group content from both internal and external content sources. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.

Hello Drupliers. My name is Kyle Mathews. I'm a grad student in Information Systems at Brigham Young University working as a research assistant to several faculty members here. We are studying how and where social software can be used in education.

In the past eight months, I've built a number of classroom websites using Drupal. I've learned a considerable bit about Drupal in the process, became very involved in the community, and am writing a module (writing_assignment -- still a work in progress btw). I've loved most everything about Drupal but have found Drupal is missing an important component for building the perfect social learning website. This itches. So, in the best open-source fashion, I'm applying to Google Summer of Code to scratch my itch.

Added to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/237628

Overview: With Encrypted RSS/Atom feeds, buddylist-like features become possible cross-site. The project would be to develop a module which generates and consumes syndicated feeds, where reading them in only possible behind a login.

Hi,
I'm very new to drupal, and not a programmer... though I have several (without drupal experience) in my lab.

I would like to take the results of a pubmed search at NCBI, and use the feed in drupal.
I can get the RSS link to work nicely in NetNewsWire (Mac).
When I use drupal aggregator everything is displayed (abstract etc), I want to just list out the titles.
I've tried to use the NCBI controls to regulate the output, but it seems tat doesn't apply to the RSS feed which gets everything.

I made a very rough implementation of a module that just uses the nodeapi 'rss item' op to add cck fields as extra elements in the item namespace. In RSS 2.0, adding extra elements is allowed as long as they're w/in a namespace on the spec., and Drupal's nodeapi makes this pretty easy to do. My question is, is there already some functionality out there that does this?

I recently created an web site for a class at BYU that makes extensive use of FeedAPI. I was very pleased with FeedAPI as it allowed me to map each student's external blog to their Drupal blog.

Read the write-up here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8610