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June 16, 2008 1:25am

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#1 / Jun 16, 2008 1:25am

Mike Essl
8 posts

I would like to take an external RSS feed and use it to make a post to an EE blog. Essentially I want to archive an external RSS stream in my database. Seems like this would be handy for all manner of external services.

Is there a plugin that does this? Or has anyone tried something similar?

EEFlickr is the same idea but for the flickr API:
http://www.lumis.com/eeflickr/

There is a tool for wordpress that does this with twitter (but also uses the API):
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=twitter-tools
#2 / Jun 16, 2008 2:24am

Lisa Wess
20502 posts

Look for FeedGrab in the plugins forum.

As a note, EEFlickr doesn’t scrape the images into the EE database; it just references them. If that is what you want, you could use Magpie instead for an RSS feed.