By Nitin on March 6, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) was released on 3rd March, and currently supports the following features: Automatically downloads and attaches image to the node created by Feeds module. Configurable XPath of the desired image location on the webpage of the feed item on per feed basis (using element’s id or CSS class). Support for FileField Paths module. [...]
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By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Facebook-style Links (FBSL) provides the ability for users to attach and submit links along with their Facebook-style Statuses. Combined with Facebook-style Statuses (FBSS), the FBSL module provides an attach link form that loads via AHAH. Users can then attach a link with an (optional) thumbnail, title and description to their status. In the nutshell, it [...]
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By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) is the successor project for FeedAPI ImageGrabber to support the Feeds module. FIG parses the Item URL of each feed-item, downloads the appropriate image from the post and maps it to an image field in the node created by Feeds module for that feed-item. [Google Reader (with thumbnails) can be imitated [...]
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By Nitin on February 20, 2010
I often come across this question from my friends and peers and most of the time I deflect it by saying “it lets you create your website easily, why don’t you look up on Wikipedia?”. Few days ago, one of my friends pointed me that most of the articles start with “Drupal is a Content Management [...]
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By Nitin on October 3, 2009
Recently, while working on my project FeedAPI ImageGrabber I came across the issue where I had to select HTML elements by a given css class. The HTML element can have a single CSS class: 1<div class="foo"></div> or multiple CSS classes associated with it. 1<div class="foo exp tar"></div> Now if you want to select the HTML [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged css, Drupal, php, xpath
By Nitin on September 20, 2009
Updates: Feeds Image Grabber has been released to support the new Feeds module. (3 march 2010) Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) published. (6 march 2010) Demonstration Website is available here. (6 march 2010) I get a lot of requests for this, so here is a tutorial explaining the 3 W’s (What, Why and How) [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feedapi, imagegrabber, module, tutorial