RSS aggregator?

I use different software on Platinax, and would really like to aggregate the onsite RSS feeds.

I know there are online services that will do this, but I don't want to rely on a third party - I'd simply want to have a PHP script I can upload to my own site to do this automatically.

Is there any such script in general release?

 

you could check out the python script, planetplanet

 

Hi,

I would suggest MagpieRSS. I have written an article on how to add RSS feeds to your web site using MagpieRSS

Regards,

Gary

 

I am with Gary on this one, magpierss is a very simple way to do it. I use it for most all of my rss stuff because it takes almost no time to get working.

 

Carp aggregates with the free version but it can be confusing. I bought the 25.00 upgrade to the script and it puts items into a MYSQL database, then you can pull them back out sorted by posted date and viola they're aggregated, and you can even let users re-sort them by various features like feed, author. It's more complicated but in my opinion more customizable.

 

If you just want to display a feed on your site, this one is easy (I think easier than Magpie):
http://www.globalsyndication.com/rss-parser

 

As it happens I installed Magpie RSS the other day, it's simple to install and simple to integrate. I didn't try any other software, mind. This worked well enough.

It can cache the feeds too, which I liked, so you're not hammering someone else's site

 

The trouble is that I'm not simply after a parser - I had my own versions of those - but what I'm really missing is the ability to combine two different RSS feeds into a single feed for publishing with PHP.

I think this is "aggregating"?

 

Even the free version of carp does have an aggregate function. Warning: it's totally confusing, but it works provided that the feeds are formatted correctly. http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/docs/functions/carpaggregate.php

 

NewTopica can do exactly that.
As you see here:
http://www.newstopica.com/directory/That_s_Entertainment_/Movies/
There are 3 different sources feeding in and there is an XML link at the top of the page with all of the feeds combined into one.

I'm not going to call it "perfect" yet, but it's getting there.