Searching RSS feeds in Drupal...

Question

I build a site on Drupal CMS and added some external RSS feeds. The search block works fine when i publish node, means it can search the nodes. But feeds are not stored as nodes so how do search the feed ?

Answer 1

Hi,

I have never used it yet, but you might take a look at the module called FeedAPI, which (quoting that page) :

FeedAPI aggregates feeds on a Drupal website by generating light weight items or nodes from feeds.

You can also look it's wiki-documentation page, which has some interesting informations, like :

FeedAPI will parse RSS feeds and turns the items within those "aggregated" RSS feeds into nodes. This opens up a plethora of new features that the Drupal core Aggregator Module's lightweight items cannot offer.

I don't see anything that says that these can be searched... But as the RSS feeds are imported into nodes, those should be.

Hope this help :-)