How to feed your site – Exporting and Importing content using Feeds

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Day: 
Sunday
Time: 
3:30p
Room: 
Moss Cove B

Use Feeds and a variety of other tools to add content to your site from Feeds.

We will cover the following:

  • Feed(ing) your site using RSS
  • Make your site feed others
  • Importing information from one site to another
  • Tamper(ing) with that information
  • Case Study - Using one site to feed others in the Arts

A list of the modules used in this session:
Feeds
Our base module that we use to import items
https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds

Required other modules
ctools
https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools

job scheduler
https://www.drupal.org/project/job_scheduler

features
https://www.drupal.org/project/features

Views
To create our Feeds and to display our data
https://www.drupal.org/project/views

Views RSS
Ability to add fields to our RSS
https://www.drupal.org/project/views_rss

Views Data Export
Use this to export large amounts of data supporting CSV, XLS, TXT, XML
https://www.drupal.org/project/views_data_export

Views Datasource
You can use this module if you want to also export into JSON
https://www.drupal.org/project/views_datasource

Image URL Formatter
Use this to send the image url
https://www.drupal.org/project/image_url_formatter

Feeds Tamper
Use this to adjust the information incoming from various sources
https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds_tamper

Video here: http://replay.uci.edu/clients/drupal/How_to_feed_your_site__Exporting_an...

Category: 
Site Building
Skill: 
Beginner
Duration: 
One hour
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