Description

Provides access to RSS and Atom feeds.

Responsible Person

Michael Koch, michael.koch@unibw.de

Supported Formats:

RSS 0.90
RSS 0.91 Netscape
RSS 0.91 Userland
RSS 0.92
RSS 0.93
RSS 0.94
RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
Atom 1.0

Status

Status	Ready for Use

Possible Values: Ready for Use, In Development, Plannend, Broken

Info

Aggregation Features

Fill	Yes
Update	Yes
Enrich	No

Source Code

Project: https://github.com/soziotech/CommunityMashup/tree/master/sources/FeedSourceService

Used Service

Any service providing a RSS or Atom Feed can be configured.

Used Libraries

Name	Version	License	Usage	Link
Rome	1.0RC2^*	Apache 2.0	Compiled	http://wiki.java.net/twiki/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome , http://rometools.org/
jsoup	1.5.2	MIT-License	Compiled	http://jsoup.org/
Commons IO	2.4	Apache 2.0	Compiled	http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/

^*Version 1.0RC2 is used due to required compatibility with OSGi

Possible Usage Values: Compiled, Source, Extended Source, Modified Source

Info

Configuration

Key	Description	Possible Values	Default	Required (Yes/No)
feedUrl	The URL of the feed that should be included.	Any Feed Url	http://www.kooperationssysteme.de/feed/	Yes
setFirstCategory	If set to true, the first category in every feed entry should be set as CommunityMashup category. All other categories will be set as tags.	true/false	false	No
addOnlyFirstImage	If set to true, only the first image contained in a feed entry will be added to the data set.	true/false	false	No
deepXMLCleanUp	If set to true a deep cleanup of the xml input before parsing is done. Use this only when you experience problems with certain invalid feeds.	true/false	false	No
removeHTML	If set to true, remove HTML tags from description/content before setting it as the items description.	true/false	false	No
followLinkToImages	If set to true and no image (link) was found in description/content, then follow link to web page and check this page for images.	true/false	true	No

Example:

<sources bundleId="org.sociotech.communitymashup.source.FeedSourceService" name="CSCM_News">
   <configuration>
      <properties Key="feedUrl" Value="http://www.kooperationssysteme.de/feed/" />
   </configuration>
</sources>

Description	Adds all of the news contained in the feed of kooperationssysteme.de.

Meta-Informations

Type	Description	Value	Items
MetaTag	MetaTag added to all contents created from feed entries	feed_entry	Contents created from feed entries

Transformation

External	CommunityMashup
Feed entry	Content
Author - entry relation	First author will author of content all others are contributors.
Published date of entry	Content creation date
Updated data of entry	Content last updated date
Image in html content of feed	Image attached to content
URI of entry	Content uri
Categories of entry	Tags
First Category of entry	Category if setFirstCategory is set to true.
Authors	Persons

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