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  • Alex Barth
    Nov 3, 2009
    28 comments
    Good bye FeedAPI, hello Feeds!
    The time has come for a new aggregator that doesn't just aggregate
    With the launch of Managing News we have released Feeds, the intended successor of FeedAPI. Feeds is a next generation import and aggregation API that applies lessons learned from three years of intensive work with aggregation in Drupal. This is one...
  • Alex Barth
    Jul 10, 2009
    21 comments
    Aggregating Things in Drupal 7
    Adjusting Goals and Developing a Successor for FeedAPI for Drupal 7
    In the last couple months we’ve been driving efforts to bring Drupal’s core aggregator up to speed so that we could use it to replace FeedAPI in Drupal 7. After trying to pull through some of the more extensive changes, I have to...
  • Alex Barth
    Jan 16, 2009
    4 comments
    RSS/Atom Syndication in Low Bandwidth Scenarios
    Use less Bandwidth with Targeted Downloading, Compression and Pub/Sub
    We’re currently working on a project to deliver weather information to remote areas that don’t have access to high speed internet. We plan to do this by exposing weather information as RSS feeds on a central server, and then pull these...
  • Alex Barth
    Aug 6, 2008
    2 comments
    Improved Aggregator for Drupal 7: What's Under the Hood
    An Overview of Its New Features and a Request to Test Drive It
    The patch for an improved aggregator for Drupal 7 is now available on Drupal.org #236237. This code is result of Aron Novak's Google Summer of Code project and it is available as a Drupal project with regular patches against Drupal HEAD #236237. The...
  • Alex Barth
    Jul 18, 2008
    5 comments
    Why the heck a new aggregator for Drupal 7?
    Or, Check Out the Patch
    This year’s Google Summer of Code season I’ve got the distinct pleasure of mentoring Aron Novak’s work for a new aggregator in Drupal 7. Aron’s well into his task and has just rolled a patch for core and an alpha 2 version...
  • Aron Novak
    Feb 8, 2008
    1 comment
    Migrate Your Aggregator From Leech to FeedAPI This Weekend
    A Migration Script to Make the Transition Easy
    After a lot of hard work, we've released FeedAPI 1.0. But what does this mean for Leech users? Simply put, in most cases it means a better aggregation option is now available - and with the ready-to-use migration script explained below the...
  • Aron Novak
    Feb 7, 2008
    13 comments
    FeedAPI 1.0 Released
    New Flexible Aggregator for Drupal Ready for Use
    After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal. We wanted FeedAPI to be as flexible and as...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Nov 26, 2007
    7 comments
    Drupal, Meet Python
    Speeding Up Aggregation in Drupal with a Daemon
    Recently we’ve been working to get our team aggregator and media analyzer Managing News running faster – we want it to fly. To do this we’ve had to really push what Drupal and the LAMP stack can do. Aron and Alex have done great things with...
  • Alex Barth
    Oct 30, 2007
    23 comments
    Pick It off the Feed, Stick It on the Node
    FeedAPI Now Maps Feed Elements to Node Fields
    Last week I did some cleaning up of the soon-to-come FeedAPI beta release. I got fired up and decided to address one of the more exciting feature requests for Drupal aggregators - a feed element mapper. This feature will make it possible to freely...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Sep 28, 2007
    Zuckerman Presents at Web2forDev, Shows Off BuzzMonitor
    Uses the BuzzMonitor as an Example of Good Filtering Tools for Development Agencies
    Ethan Zuckerman, the man behind Global Voices Online and working with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, kicked off the last day of the Web2forDev conference yesterday here in Rome with a great presentation. He had many great points on...