[johnchandler]

I'd like to have pligg be able to read an rss feed and automatically add the items in it to the queued stories. It seems like something like this wouldn't be too hard, but I have no coding skills. Anyone out there already working on something like this?

[garg]

I'd be interested in something like that as well.

I'll look into this and post a solution if I can get it to work.

EDIT: Ran into an "issue". If you pull from an RSS feed then there won't be any quick way of entering tags for each link. That would mess up the cloud and tag stuff.

[johnchandler]

So is there a way to do it, and just not use tags?

[Nicholas]

Don't have time to do this, but this would involve a simple matter of grabbing the feeds (see how below), then "posting" them into the database, then making the appropriate counter and other updates (the code of which can simply be adopted from the (manual) posting script), and that's it.

There are existing libraries that could certainly be used to include RSS fetching code into yours, such as MagpieRSS or Carp, so that bit of parsing is easily solved.

John, with this type of automation, some might argue that this'd effectively kill the purpose of user-generated news and posts in the spirit of digg/pligg, but I can certainly see the benefits of what you're trying to accomplish.

[johnchandler]

Nicholas,
I agree re: the spirit -- I'm thinking of a bit of a hybrid that would both post new entries as well as be open to postings from others.

[garg]

I've been using Magpie RSS for this. If I finish it I'll post it.

[Nicholas]

Yer, a hybrid could definitely work-- the reasoning could be that site visitors can have the benefit of both worlds, of user submissions and getting from predefined sources that users may have missed.

Garg, it'd be cool if you provided that, indeed.

Reminds me of how there are several such article and rss/feed "bots" available for vBulletin, phpbb, etc. (even Wordpress) for example.

[SpyMy]

Sounds like Newsvine, you should check it out, it's the BIGGEST new web2.0 thing around, user submitted combined with syndication from Associated Press.

http://www.newsvine.com/

[thewatcher]

Originally Posted by SpyMy

Sounds like Newsvine, you should check it out, it's the BIGGEST new web2.0 thing around, user submitted combined with syndication from Associated Press.

http://www.newsvine.com/

I'm testing this "hybrid" feature as well, though my idea is to grab Top News in
a different RSS feeder such as CNN, Google, Yahoo, etc and display the most recent one.

I will check back if I have success.

Thanks.

[LG-2]

Very good idea... I am going to start making a mod for this. When I am done I will post it here.