What is Drupal Feeds module, how and when do we use it. Common settings and configurations needed to setup our first importer.

1. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Importing and syncing
contents with Feeds module
By Mihail Shahov

2. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
About me
> Mihail Shahov ( ShaxA )
> PHP Developer since 2009
> Senior Drupal Developer at FFW
> Soon Acquia certificated Drupal developer
> Will be co-lector with Vasil Boychev for Drupal course starting January 2016.

3. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Basic description and use
cases
> Purpose
> To get large sets of data from outside your site … into your site!
> Use cases
> Build Activity streams using feeds from Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or etc.
> Batch import sets of nodes, terms and users from a file or third party sites
> Import of Commerce Products or simply updating stock levels for them
> Whatever your imagination wants to import

4. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

5. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
FETCHER
PARSER
PROCESSOR
IMPORTER

6. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

7. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
FETCHER
PARSER
PROCESSOR
Where should I get the data from?
How would I read and interpret the data?
What should I do with the data?
File upload, external RSS feed, etc.
CSV, XLS, XML, RSS, etc.
Create nodes, users, terms, etc.

8. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

9. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Fetchers
> File upload
> HTTP Fetcher
> Directory fetcher
> OAuth
> Clients Fetcher
> SOAP / WDSL
More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

10. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

11. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Parsers
> RSS
> XML
> CSV
> XPath
> Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Pinterest, Slideshare
> JSON
> Clients parser
More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

12. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

13. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Processors
> Node
> Taxonomy
> User
> Comment
> Commerce product
More: https://www.drupal.org/node/856644

14. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

15. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Mapping
Source Target
Provided from parser Provided from processor
Eaxmples
“title” column in CSV Node title
<ArticleContent> in XML Article body

16. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Feeds Tamper
> Replace every instance of a word
> Filter items based on keywords or vocabularies
> Make every letter uppercase, lowercase, or capitalize every first letter
> Break a comma separated list of words into Taxonomy terms or a multivalued
text field
> Combine separate 'firstname' and 'lastname' fields into one 'name' field
> Convert urls from relative to absolute
> Many more

17. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Common problems
> Avoiding duplicate data
> You need good data for import
> Data formatting
> Character encoding
> CSV, Spreadsheets
> Broken urls

18. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis
Feeds plugins
Feeds is using the Ctools plugin system
- Fetcher plugins
- Parser plugins
- Processor plugins
Write your own plugin - each of the three main plugins extends FeedsPlugin class
and then they are extended by other classes.
Extend the plugins to meet your requirements

19. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

20. Formerly known as Bysted, Propeople, Blink Reaction, Chainbizz and Geekpolis

21. Thank you
We can meet again soon!!!