Module to parse RSS feed in Drupal?

Question

I'm trying to simply display an RSS feed as part of my site. A user will put in an RSS URL into a CCK field and I want to take that URL and display the latest RSS results.

I assume there's a module for this but I can't seem to find it.

Answer 1

http://drupal.org/project/feeds will do this and a lot more.

Here's a good video to get started

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/dec/15/importing-and-aggregating-stuff-feeds

Regarding your request about integrating with CCK, I don't know how you can do that but that may not be necessary because the feed URL is entered through a dialog of its own. And you can always add other CCK fields to the Feeds Content type.

Answer 2

The main feed aggregators are the the core aggregator module, feedAPI module, and the newer feeds module. I'm not sure any of them are set up to integrate with CCK in quite the way you're describing. I suspect that will require some custom development.

If you don't need the feed data in the Drupal database, you could use a javascript library to bring in the feeds on the client side.

Answer 3

I ended up using the simplepie module and used the function simplepie_get() included within.