Blog Aggregators???

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by jawinn, Jun 18, 2006.

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    Does anyone here have any experience with blog aggregators? I need one for a new project and the only one I can find is in Python. I'd rather find one in PHP. If anyone knows of one that is easy to setup and maintain I'd love to hear about it.

    Thx
     
    jawinn, Jun 18, 2006 IP
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    jestep Prominent Member

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    Try Gregarious: http://gregarius.net/

    Its php, requires magpierss, but is easy to configure, and works very well. I'm not sure if it updates on its own. You may have to set a cron to get it to update automatically.
     
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    cagintranet Well-Known Member

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    FeedWordPress: projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress
    CaRP: geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

    I use both. There are some downsides to them both though.

    FeedWordPress only words with a WordPress blog. And it requires a cronjob to automatically update.

    CaRP has a free version that caches the RSS feeds and will work with any site using PHP. The free version has its limitations, most notable, the absence of the [date] field.
     
    cagintranet, Jun 21, 2006 IP
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    jawinn Active Member

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    This is the one I think I'm going to settle on. It has the most options and looks the most natural in WP. Thanks guys!
     
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    cagintranet Well-Known Member

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    jawinn,

    if you need it to automatically update FeedWordPress without a cronjob, let me know. I found a way around it since my host doesnt allow cron access...
     
    cagintranet, Jun 21, 2006 IP
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    jawinn Active Member

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    I'd love to know. I use a webbased cron service for my other cron needs but I don't think that will work here. I've had a few problems with this thing too like the "update all" button not working.
     
    jawinn, Jun 22, 2006 IP
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    cagintranet Well-Known Member

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    Its kind of just a workaround, not really a cron job. I just reconfigured the update-feeds.php file to automatically update all feeds upon opening the page (w/o hitting submit).

    Then i added an iframe in the footer of all my pages that called that page. So now anytime any of my pages are opened, it opens a small 1x1 iframe that opens update-feeds.php.

    It doesnt overload the rss feed contributors either since FeedWordPress limits each rss feed to be called every 20 or so minutes. So if i have 100 page views in 20 minutes, it only checks all the feeds for new posts once.

    Jawinn, if you want the updated code for update-feeds.php, send me a PM.
     
    cagintranet, Jun 22, 2006 IP