View Full Version : How to build a news aggregating web site with Drupal
TIMI
21st August 2009, 10:33
A news aggregating website can be used to display live RSS feeds from different sites. Let's take a case where you will like to have a website which will display the most important news from all the newspapers in the UK . All you will need to do is go to the web sites of these newspapers and get the feed from the sections you want to display on your web site. Using Drupal's aggregator module completing the website is extremely easy and can be done in less
than one hour. See how I created a very unique demo project at
http://www.packtpub.com/article/building-news-aggregating-site-using-drupal-6
sean.browne
21st August 2009, 20:48
I imagine RSS is for own use, I would be surprised if republishing feed without consent would be legal. But I could be wrong.
Interconnect IT
22nd August 2009, 07:41
We're building this kind of aggregation/portal building tech into WordPress, but we won't be making a general release of it as it makes running large splogs (spam blogs) far too easy - especially combined with some of the other technology we have :-)
It's really aimed at our main market anyway - magazines, newspapers and the like.
Jolora
22nd August 2009, 09:53
I imagine RSS is for own use, I would be surprised if republishing feed without consent would be legal. But I could be wrong.
i can't imagine there being any conflicts if original content owner's credits are maintained. especially as most rss aggregators only provide links to the original articles... it's the same as providing links to webpages in that respect, which is obviously a legal practice.
edmondscommerce
24th August 2009, 10:35
look at magpie for PHP and RSS
should be easy enough to roll a custom Drupal module together based around it.
alphanumeric
24th August 2009, 10:59
there a few wordpress rrs aggregation modules about, and yes it can make spam sites very quickly, think about how you could produce sites with relevent content with no maintenance (just turn comments off) and in about a month you have a site with a 1000's of pages all full of relevent content. (this is bad)
However pull feeds from newspaper sites or other sites that track there feeds and they will phone you asking for credit card details ;) Some sites are very protective of there rss feeds.