Comments on: Tutorial for FeedAPI Image Grabber

By: wheel spin roulette

wheel spin roulette — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:48:29 +0000

The tutorial about the feedAPI image grapper is fantastic.The post gives the brief instructions of the working method and the downloading/installation process of the API grapper. Nice post!

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Drupal: Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber | Public Mind — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:47:49 +0000

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Drupal: Feeds Image Grabber | Public Mind — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:05:47 +0000

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By: emoxquen

emoxquen — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:43:40 +0000

uh. thank you for this style ))

By: Nitin

Nitin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:48:57 +0000

FeedAPI ImageGrabber is completely independent of FeedAPI Mapper. But, it doesn’t looks into the description to scrap links but follows the “original_url” as provided by FeedAPI for a feed-item, i.e. the link you would normally see under the ‘original article’ title associated with feed-item node.

It won’t be possible what you want to do using ImageGrabber, may be after customizing the module you can achieve these results.

By: Willem

Willem — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:53:57 +0000

Basicly I’m trying to get the user images from an advanced search.twitter.com feed (to accompany selected data from a feed that I map to a content type with feedapi_mapper).

It seems to me that imagegrabbers behaviour is independent of feedapi_mapper. Imagegrabber looks at the description node of the feed’s xml for the link to follow to retrieve an image.
What I want to do is to try to get it to look at another node of the feed’s xml, to acquire the link to be followed.
I’ve jumped into your code to find out where this “source-node” is set, but I’m a php newbie as well: i can’t figure it out.

By: Willem

Willem — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:39:15 +0000

Thanks! It’s reassuring for such a linux newbie as i am to know that these services are not interdependent. I wasn’t clear on that. And thanks very much for making this module. I look forward to trying it out in my current project.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:03:06 +0000

Brandon,

I think it will be better if you move this issue to your web host service provider. They will be in better position to tell you the cause for this. If that’s not possible, then you should look into curl forums, I have little idea about these configurations. Please leave a comment if you are able to figure this out, it might help others.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:29:55 +0000

Willem,

You don’t need to change your default crontab to use cURL. ImageGrabber needs cURL to download the images, so it must be installed on your system but you can set crontab using any method.

By: Willem

Willem — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:08:44 +0000

I ‘ve setup my default crontab using wget. Would using curl mean setting up a separate crontab for imagegrabber, or must i change the default crontab to use curl instead of wget?