Aggregate news feeds

Submitted by chip on

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Aggregate the yahoo and facebook group feeds so that we can index their content. 

This will help make the built in search capability of our site of more use since we will only have Bolling information.   This will also let our members know of other resources for posting questions.

If there are other groups or mailing lists that I need to know about, please comment on this article and I will look into it.

Update

Submitted by chip on

Currently have the 'feeds' module creating nodes for the Yahoo Group.  This has the last 15 and should monitor and collect new posts.

Need to:

  1. Be able to get previous 200 or so and post them
  2. Have a view that displays these feeds.  Perhaps part of the links and allow the user to sort based on post time (increasing/decreasing) with decreasing as the default.  If they want more, they can use the regular search.

Facebook group is on hold for aggregation.  There are some modules in development and it might be best to add this when we add 'Like', 'Share' and 'Login' capabilities for Facebook.

Update

Submitted by chip on

There are several genforums now in the external links set of pages.  Find out a way to pull these into the 'Feeds' module and index them for our site.