How to Feed HTML RSS Into Drupal
To integrate RSS feeds into Drupal, you'll need to install the modules to call for and process the feed. Once the modules are in place, you have a number of options for configuring which feeds will appear, and how they will be displayed. Setting up the RSS feeds is menu-based, requiring no programming.
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Instructions
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Install the Chaos Tools module. For for the module's page on the Drupal Modules site. Copy the link for the version of the module that matches your version of Drupal. Log into Drupal as administrator and click the "Modules" menu. Select the "Install New Module" link. Paste the copied link for the Chaos Tools module into the "Install from a URL" field. Click "Install." Repeat this procedure for the Job Scheduler and Feeds modules.
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Click the "Modules" menu and place a check next to each of the components of the Chaos Tools, Job Scheduler and Feeds modules.
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Select the "Configuration" menu. Click "Feed Aggregator," which appears in the "Web Services" section of the page. Click the "Add Feed" link on the Feed Aggregator page.
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Enter a name for the feed in the "Title" field. Enter the URL for the RSS feed in the "URL" field. Set the update frequency for the feed, then set the number of items to display in the feed. Click "Save."
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Click the "Update Items" link to the right of the RSS feed in the "Feed Overview" section of the "Feed Aggregator" page.
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Click the "Structure" menu and select "Blocks." Your RSS feed appears as an unassigned block at the bottom of the list. Assign the RSS feed block to appear in some region of your Drupal page. Click the "Region" menu and select a region. Click "Save Blocks" at the bottom of the page.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to combine several RSS feeds into a single listing, you can combine them into categories. Click the "Add Category" link from the Feed Aggregator page.
The Feeds module contains a Feeds News function that will automatically assign downloaded RSS content to its own page. Feeds News requires that you also install the Features module.
Install all three modules before enabling them. The Modules page will not let you enable a module component until all support modules are also installed and enabled.
If you forget to update the items for your feed before you assign the block to a region, no RSS content will appear when you preview the page, even though the block has been properly assigned. After this first manual update, Feeds will perform its own updates in the intervals you've selected.
