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#1 2011-09-29 13:17:54
- Qwest
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Import RSS feeds into TXP database
Morning all!
I’ve got a quick question and wondering how I would go about doing it. Like most here, I’m a designer and I love designing. I stick a bunch of the stuff I’m working on on dribbble.com from time to time. Nice idea to get some feedback on bits & pieces.
I’d like to echo this on my site and show some of my latest shots as well as my current portfolio. Rather than uploading them to two places, I’d like to be able to upload to dribbble, and then pull those in to the txp database and each one become a ‘post’ under the section, dribbble.
Then, I should be able to do something like <txp:article_custom section=“portfolio, dribbble” /> and it’ll show my portfolio pieces & works in progress as we go in some form of chronological order.
I’m not a back-end developer so the easiest way I can figure doing this (while avoiding the API) is to use the dribbble RSS feeds, and importing those but I can’t seem to find a way of importing the feeds directly into the database and making each item a post.
Do you know if there’s any plugins available that might help?
Cheers!
Anthony
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Re: Import RSS feeds into TXP database
Try asv_tumblelog. This is the only plug-in I know which directly imports single feed items into the TXP database as articles. After setup you only need to call a special page manually or via cron (or a cron web service).
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#3 2011-09-29 14:17:20
- Qwest
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Re: Import RSS feeds into TXP database
Thanks Markus, I just tried asv_tumblelog and although it seems absolutely perfect for my needs, It’s throwing up an error which I believe (I’m no programmer) relates to the fact my server doesn’t allow PHP’s allow_url_fopen which I think asv_tumblelog uses to grab the RSS, open & import into the database.
Ho hum.
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Re: Import RSS feeds into TXP database
i’m on the case about this stuff again – and my feeling is that the best answer at the moment is with Yahoo Pipes. what you would do is make a new feed that combines your dribbble feed and your textpattern feed, and then display that on your textpattern site. i know it seems inefficient to run your own textpattern feed through another website, but this is the service that can mash it up together.
another option though is “RPC” which you can see how it works with Posterous in this thread
very curious how other people are integrating other blog services into their txp site these days
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