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Acts as Feeder

Features: * Creates tables to store data feeds
* Provides templates for: Add/delete/update_entries feed, show entries by feeds, list feeds.
* Support RSS 0.9, RSS1.0 , RSS2.0 and ATOM
* REQUIRE: * open-uri * feed-normalizer * hpricot
Current Version: 0.1
HOW TO USE
Added (07/24/07)
Generator
script/generate feeder
rake db:migrate (to make the table)
Class Mehods:
* is_feed? (url , option = :only_verify)
option: * :feed_url (return the feed url or false) * :only_verify (return true if is a feed or contains a feed link, else return false)
Instance Methods:
* parse_feed (feed_url , option = nil)
Parse the feed_url and return the feed model
option: * :save (save the model returned)
* get_entries (option = :update)
Get the entries for the feed
option: * :new (get entries for a new feed without entries) * :update (update the entries for a feed)
=== Notes ===
On my wiki site page, i will update the progress information, versions and updates. Thanks a lot.

Vitals

Home http://acts-as-feeder.googlecode.com/
Repository http://acts-as-feeder.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acts_as_feeder
License GPL
Tags Tag_red activerecord aggregator atom feed feeds generator model rss xml
Rating (7 votes)
Owner Nicolas Santa
Created 24 July 2007

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    24 July 2007

    wow, thx. That's what I need. Looks very promising.. I'll test it soon..

    Btw: there is a typo mistake in the homepage url. It must be: http://acts-as-feeder.googlecode.com/

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    24 July 2007

    The URL has been changed.

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    24 July 2007

    This plugin looks really good. Nico started with my feed_fetcher plugin and branched when he needed something providing much broader functionality. The features that he's added seem very useful and quite extensive.

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