Web-based RSS Aggregator??

acidrain

acidrain

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Hi guys,

I am looking for an rss aggregator able to install on my network webserver to run as an rss feed for those one the network without inet.

I don't know of many, but i would hopefully like to find one where the server fetches the rss articles and not the logged in user.

I've tried Tiny Tiny RSS but i seem to be picking up errors with it and from what i've seen, it is not fetching the articles but redirecting the user to the inet url.

The things im looking to link is:
  • Weather
  • SA News
  • International News
  • NZB Sites
  • Currency Exchange


Any ideas or help?
 
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Doubt you'll get one that displays whole articles, rss only displays a short description. As for weather, currency and nzb that should work fine. Unfortunatly I do not know any software capable of doing this.
 
Hi again :)

Okay, so i have decided to use drupal and hopefully there are some people here that are familiar with it.

I have successfully managed to get the site to retrieve rss feeds and display them. The trick now is, when i click on a news item, it redirects me to the Internet page.

Is there any modules i can install that will make the server retrieve the full page and display it to the user so that the user does not require internet to view the article?

Thanks
 
Kloon said:
Doubt you'll get one that displays whole articles, rss only displays a short description. As for weather, currency and nzb that should work fine. Unfortunatly I do not know any software capable of doing this.
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This all depends on the RSS poster. Generally, most websites only publish a teaser, but a lot of sites will publish the whole article. The reader / agrigator will read what's been published.

acidrain said:
Okay, so i have decided to use drupal and hopefully there are some people here that are familiar with it.

I have successfully managed to get the site to retrieve rss feeds and display them. The trick now is, when i click on a news item, it redirects me to the Internet page.

Is there any modules i can install that will make the server retrieve the full page and display it to the user so that the user does not require internet to view the article?

Thanks
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Which module are you using?
 
acidrain said:
Is there any modules i can install that will make the server retrieve the full page and display it to the user so that the user does not require internet to view the article?
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I don't think that's possible. As previously stated, RSS only returns a summary of the article / content in question. I order to view the full article, you will have to redirect to the page which contains the article. RSS allows you to lure more traffic to your website. It's not used to open up your dataset to the public domain... :p
 
FarligOpptreden said:
I order to view the full article, you will have to redirect to the page which contains the article...
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Ok, lets scrap rss then, ive got that part working and obviously what i want to do might not be related to rss or any of its modules.

Still, If you click on the article, ordering the server to redirect you to it, surely using the same logic, instead of ordering the server to re-direct you, can't you then order the server to redirect itself, thereby making the server browse to the article while you still remain within its domain and avoid internet browsing?
 
I'm not a programmer, but how about this for a solution?

Setup a proxy server with limited access, and modify the RSS feeds to include some kind of proxy authentication. Details are hazy, but that way you could get the feeds to request the URL from your proxy while stopping any other internet access.

<edit> Another route is to create a proxy server with a whitelist which is automatically created from the RSS feeds... Users will be able to go to the particular page linked by RSS but nowhere else.

<edit2> if this works my invoice will be in the mail.
 
arf9999 said:
I'm not a programmer, but how about this for a solution?

Setup a proxy server with limited access, and modify the RSS feeds to include some kind of proxy authentication. Details are hazy, but that way you could get the feeds to request the URL from your proxy while stopping any other internet access.

<edit> Another route is to create a proxy server with a whitelist which is automatically created from the RSS feeds... Users will be able to go to the particular page linked by RSS but nowhere else.

<edit2> if this works my invoice will be in the mail.
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Cool thanks, gonna hop onto the drupal forum to see if there is a way to link the rss links to a proxy server
 
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