Comments on: Drupal: Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:34:19 +0000

see http://drupal.org/node/805622#comment-2996366

Cheers,

By: Spark_man

Spark_man — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:35:24 +0000

I installed your module and have followed the directions up to the bit about the mapping but “photo (FIG)” isn’t showing up in the target list? Any ideas?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:14:23 +0000

Looks like we’re talking to each other in two threads now
I created that issue. Thanks for the info. I’ll continue there.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:58:05 +0000

I agree that most of the feeds come with images inserted inside the body of the post or within an additional tag in the XML feed. Achieving the former, as you demonstrated, is relatively easy but mapping it to filefield/imagefield would require some extra efforts. I remember FeedAPI Scrapper used to do this with FeedAPI which, unfortunately, hasn’t been ported for Feeds yet. It scraped the body of the feed-item for any content recognized by a PREG or REGEX and mapped it to user-defined fields. Achieving the latter, according to me, would require a custom parser which can look for those extra tags in the XML feed.

Also, see http://drupal.org/node/783694#comment-2900110

Cheers,

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:58:55 +0000

Agreed pretty awesome, but I’m looking to snag images right from the body of posts. Most feeds I’ve encountered we’re so nice about placing an image item right in them, though this module would be great for flickr feeds and even getting avatar images into a field for good display.

Here is some code I used to catch the first image in a post body.
Altered from this post intended for WordPress http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-get-the-first-image-from-the-post-and-display-it
I’m using it for Drupal, and unfortunately I can’t post the real PREG here.

function retrofit_custom_catch_image($string) {
$first_img = ”;
$output= preg_match_all(‘ GO GET THE REAL PREG FROM THE POST ‘, $string, $matches);
$first_img = $matches[1][0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Hope I just made your day!

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:05:44 +0000

7.x of Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) just contains the common functions for parsing web pages, scraping images, saving files but it hasn’t been integrated with Feeds (as no 7.x exists for Feeds yet).

By: day trader

day trader — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:10:07 +0000

good job, but I have a question is that the feeds didn’t released 7.X,but your plugin(feed image grabber)have been released 7.X

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