RSS server based aggregation

Things have been a little quiet round here lately, mainly because I write most of my posts on the unin­teruppted 35 minute bus ride to and from work. How­ever in the last week the rides have been spent invest­ig­at­ing RSS aggreg­at­ors and test­ing them on my trusty powerbook.

What I am look­ing for is to take feeds from a vari­ety of sources and put them into a single feed or feeds. Two reas­ons, one is take the feeds from my fel­low Port80 mem­bers; mul­tiple per­son­al­ity Kay, Adrian, Miles and Myles. So I can use it instead of a blogroll and also make it avail­able to the oth­ers in the group and bey­ond to encour­age each other to keep up with reg­u­lar quail­ity post­ings. If you have any ideas on what to call a bunch of Port80 blog­gers, Kay would like to know.

Also for work, I would like to be able to take a couple of dif­fer­ent feeds and be able to show that you can then redis­trib­ute the con­tent based on cat­egor­ies in those feeds to other feeds.

I have looked at Feedon­Feeds and CafeRSS, but neither did what I wanted.

I have had a play with feed­word­press plu­gin. It inter­grates too well into Word­Press, which is great for some pro­jects, for example if mul­tiple per­son­al­ity Kay of the soon to be four blogs wanted to make all her post­ings avail­able in one blog, all she needs to do is cre­ate another Word­Press blog, install feed­word­press, con­fig­ure it and the incom­ing RSS feeds and every time she post to one of here many blogs it would appear in this one blog too. Unfor­tu­nately for my needs I did not really need it tied so close to WordPress.

Gregarius is an amaz­ingly con­fig­ur­able web based RSS aggerator/reader built with mySQL and PHP and with more than a passing resemb­lance to Word­Press in options and struc­ture. But it is also way to spe­cific for my needs. The backend is what I need, but the fron­tend is all about one per­son read­ing their feeds via a web browser. Still if I can not find exactly what I need, I can sit down and take Gregarius apart and build a very simple front end for my needs. Only prob­lem I need to learn a lot more about PHP to do that.

Today, I found BDP RSS Aggreg­ator another Word­Press plu­gin which appears to do what I want, so some­thing to exper­i­ment with tomorrow.

I am open to any sug­ges­tions to stop me from pick­ing up that PHP manual.

tagged gregarius

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