Import news feeds into your TYPO3 CMS

• RSS feeds (atom,rss2,etc)
• (X)HTML pages
• XML content

• Supports POST request (for example to do a login request)
• Supports sub requests (use found url in first feed to fetch content/details)
• Can import images
• Only import items that contain a certain keyword
• Add default image when no image found in imported item
• CommandController to automatically import items
• Backend module to manual import items
• Notification by email when new items are imported (when automatically imported)

The extension is still beta but it is used already in multiple live projects

• TYPO3 => 7.6

After installation of the extension:

• Create a record "Import source" on a define page/storage. (Listview -> add -> Import source)
• Enter the url of the desired import feed
• Add a mapping for the items (see example mapping configurations)
• Add news storage pid were the imported news items will be saved
• Adjust/add other fields

After defining which items to import:

• Create a scheduler task
• Choose Extbase command controller
• Select Command controller command: NewsImporter ImportNews:run
• Adjust settings to your preferences (frequency etc)

NOTE:

• In the import source there is an additional setting for interval!
• Importing can also be invoked by cmdline with ./typo3cms importnews:run (typo3_console ext have to be installed)

Import RSS Feed as external news items:

items = item
item {
    guid = guid
    title = title
    externalurl = link
    type {
        defaultValue = 2
    }
    bodytext = description
    datetime {
        selector = pubDate
        strtotime = 1
    }
    image {
        selector = enclosure
        attr = url
    }
}

Import RSS feed with multiple images:

items = item
item {
    guid = guid
    title = title
    externalurl = link
    type {
        defaultValue = 2
    }
    bodytext = description
    datetime {
        selector = pubDate
        strtotime = 1
    }
    image {
        selector = enclosure
        attr = url
        multiple = 1
    }
}

Import custom RSS feed with multiple related links:

items = item
item {
    guid = guid
    title = title
    externalurl = link
    type {
        defaultValue = 2
    }
    bodytext = description
    datetime {
        selector = pubDate
        strtotime = 1
    }
    image {
        selector = enclosure
        attr = url
    }
    related_links {
        selector = related_link
        multiple {
            # fetch attr href from each
            uri = href

            # alternative way of fetching attr value and using other mapping options
            title {
                attr = title
                wrap = See also: |
            }
        }
    }
}

Setting a default value can done by e.g. default author:

author.defaultvalue = Authorname

Improve debug/test options for rss/html parsing/fetching