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Importing and syncing contents with Feeds module

By Mihail Shahov

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

About me> Mihail Shahov ( ShaxA )

> PHP Developer since 2009

> Senior Drupal Developer at FFW

> Soon Acquia certificated Drupal developer

> Will be co-lector with Vasil Boychev for Drupal course starting January 2016.

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Basic description and use cases>Purpose

>To get large sets of data from outside your site … into your site!

>Use cases>Build Activity streams using feeds from Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

or etc.>Batch import sets of nodes, terms and users from a file or third

party sites> Import of Commerce Products or simply updating stock levels for

them>Whatever your imagination wants to import

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

FETCHER

PARSER

PROCESSOR

IMPORTER

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

FETCHER

PARSER

PROCESSOR

Where should I get the data from?

How would I read and interpret the data?

What should I do with the data?

File upload, external RSS feed, etc.

CSV, XLS, XML, RSS, etc.

Create nodes, users, terms, etc.

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Fetchers>File upload>HTTP Fetcher

>Directory fetcher>OAuth>Clients Fetcher>SOAP / WDSL

More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

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Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Parsers>RSS>XML>CSV

>XPath>Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Pinterest, Slideshare>JSON>Clients parser

More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

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Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Processors>Node>Taxonomy>User

>Comment>Commerce product

More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

MappingSource

TargetProvided from parser Provided from processor

Eaxmples“title” column in CSV Node title

<ArticleContent> in XML Article body

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Feeds Tamper>Replace every instance of a word>Filter items based on keywords or vocabularies>Make every letter uppercase, lowercase, or capitalize every first letter>Break a comma separated list of words into Taxonomy terms or a multivalued text field>Combine separate 'firstname' and 'lastname' fields into one 'name' field>Convert urls from relative to absolute>Many more

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Common problems>Avoiding duplicate data>You need good data for import>Data formatting>Character encoding>CSV, Spreadsheets>Broken urls

Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Feeds pluginsFeeds is using the Ctools plugin system- Fetcher plugins- Parser plugins- Processor plugins

Write your own plugin - each of the three main plugins extends FeedsPlugin class and then they are extended by other classes.

Extend the plugins to meet your requirements

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Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

Thank youWe can meet again soon!!!