Script to aggregate/parse feeds to post on site

[Trixie]

I'm looking for a script that will allow me to post headlines & excerpts from rss feeds on a site, to customize the way they're displayed, and allow me to post multiple rss feeds.

I don't know if I'm searching for the wrong words or what, but I can't find anything. I just want to be able to plug these chunks in on a page to show off a bunch of my blogs & links to most recent posts in one place without republishing every single post from them. Basically they could just be a bunch of boxes with the blog names, headlines and excerpts.

Any ideas?

[wicked1]

check out Carp http://www.geckotribe.com/ if you are talking about posting rss to html this will do it for you

[bbm]

You need something like all-in-one seo pack

[Trixie]

Thanks for the suggestions. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but maybe carp will do the trick.

[papill0n]

Trixie Blogs Automator is a great script for posting rss feeds to blogs.

[Trixie]

Or not. Not getting a confirmation email from them (geckotribe/carp). That sucks.

[Trixie]

Trixie Blogs Automator is a great script for posting rss feeds to blogs.

Thanks -- I do love BA, but for this project I don't want another blog, I just want a static page with chunks of code that will display customized links to blogs headlines & short excerpts. Almost like if I could use WP widgets from the sidebars, but without wordpress. Or sidebars.

[BigBen]

I use http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

[cryptie]

MAgpie is the way to go.

It's got everythign you need; provided you can code, or at the least modify their samples.

It's even got caching (parses rss feed every 5-10-15 minutes) I use magpie on wordpress network sites instead of WP's built in importer.

[cryptie]

grr, my post edit time expired as i was editing it.

magpie is as simple as this:

<?php require_once('rss/rss_fetch.inc');
$rss = fetch_rss('http:/BACKSLASHsite.to.syndicateDOTcom/index.rss');

echo "<a href=".$rss->channel['link']."><b>".$rss->channel['title']."</b></a>";
foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
        $href = $item['link'];
        $title = $item['title'];
        $desc = $item['description'];
        echo "
<p><a href="$href">$title</a><br>
";
        if($desc) echo $desc;
}?>

(note I cant post a link, so replace BACKSLASH with / and DOT wit . ;))

[Trixie]

Thanks very much for the recs. All good info.

I am actually considering using this:

http://sproutbuilder.com/

Of course it won't be good for SEO, but that's not what I want it for anyway; I'm not interested in building traffic to this domain (http://trixie.com) from the feeds themselves, but in using the site for branding and a jumping-off spot to my blogs, paysites, etc.

[Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE]

no need for bloated scripts like magpie or whatever, just do this

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://source.com/of/rss.xml");
foreach($xml->channel->item as $item)
{
    echo "<b>".$item->title."</b><br />\n";
    echo "<a href='".$item->link."' target='_blank' title='".$item->title."'>".$item->description."</a><br />\n";
}
?>

[cryptie]

no need for bloated scripts like magpie or whatever, just do this

to the best of my knowledge, simplexml does not cache. magpie is a more comprehensive RSS manipulation library.

[Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE]

to the best of my knowledge, simplexml does not cache. magpie is a more comprehensive RSS manipulation library.

so write to a file, and run a cron every x mins/hours/days and just include that file... why have a huge script with tons of bullshit to just syndicate an rss feed?