SFDUG - San Francisco Drupal Users group

SFDUG - Feeds and the Feeds Ecosystem

Jul 14, 2014 · 6:00 PM
Pantheon Systems

Learn how to slurp up data using Feeds.

Long time Drupal developer and Feeds maintainer Chris Leppanen (aka Twistor) will be sharing the power of the feeds module with the group.

We'll go over the core concepts. Get our hands dirty with some examples, and cover some contributed modules that extend Feeds in interesting and useful ways.

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Jayson J.

Again, thanks Chris for the fantastic talk. The new Entity Field Query finder was exactly what I needed and I was able to get it working this morning. Also, Chris, I'm still interested in helping with UI/UX and design work. Ping me.

0 · July 15, 2014
Jordan K.

Excellent presentation. Also thank you to Mark Ferree for the delicious pizza!

0 · July 14, 2014
Luke M.

To do: check out Feeds Spider! https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds_spider

1 · July 14, 2014
Chris L.

Slides:
http://slides.com/chrisleppanen/feeds-and-the-feeds-ecosystem

0 · July 14, 2014
John R

The good: another side job. The bad: can't attend this month. Sorry for the late change in RSVP. More pizza for others though.

0 · July 14, 2014
Mark F.

Just ordered some pizza for the group, so no need to stop on your way if you're hungry.

1 · July 14, 2014
Michael Cresta (aka P.

Schedule conflicts....getting so tired of these conflicts that preclue by attending.

0 · July 14, 2014
Michael K.

I'm a Toronto based Drupaller and will be in SF for a couple of weeks starting July 24. It looks like the timing wouldn't work out for the regular SFDUG meetups but I’d love to meet with anyone who wants to talk Drupal (UX, site building, development…) over beer or coffee. $connect = $interested ? drupal_contact(‘User Advocate’) : t(‘Have a great time in SF!’);

2 · June 29, 2014
- Michael K.
  
  Hi Luke, Thanks for the heads up on that. I will definitely try to get there. Looking forward to meeting the Oakland Drupal folk.
  
  1 · July 9, 2014
Warren V.

I would like to set up a feed from my laptop system where I develop content, and my server at a hosting ISP. Most feeds seemed to be designed to pull input from another site into the Drupal site. If that is the case, how does my server find my laptop?

0 · July 2, 2014
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- Michael Cresta (aka P.
  
  You need to setup a domain name assigned to the laptop, most likely using DDNS. Then you have to have the laptop online with the doman name resolving to the laptop's IP address... If you are behind a NATing router, you may also need to alter your router's configuation to forward the appropriate incoming connections to the laptop. When on the road, the A records of the zone file resolving to your laptop may be updated, however it may or it may not be able to use such wifi connection to your laptop. You may have to also manuall trigger a polling of your laptop by the server...depends on your situation.
  
  0 · July 4, 2014
- Warren V.
  
  If it's so much trouble to have a server "Pull" content, why isn't the feed process more amenable to "Pushing" content?
  
  0 · July 8, 2014
- Warren V.
  
  or is it?
  
  0 · July 8, 2014
- Michael Cresta (aka P.
  
  The feeds process expects the source to be available at the times when it polls. The model design is based on the assumption that the server/source is awaiting for contact by the client at all times. If you need to push when time is best for the source, you needs a connection module/process that is based on the model where the source (your laptop) can determine when to "push". This can be done, where the sounce initiates contact, and posts the data. There is one such protocol provided in core, it is the remote blog posting protocal that in installed with the blog module. If that one does not do what you want, then you will need to locate or create a module that will provide the sending of the data as you wish. Depending on how the resulting data is stored, you may need to use Drupal, or you may be able to create a web service that is outside of Drupal and yet sends the data to a database server that can be used by Drupal.
  
  0 · July 8, 2014