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Has anyone looked at/played with SweetCron yet?

SweetCron is a ‘Lifestream’ application by Yongfook. It runs on CodeIgniter, and allows data to be pulled from Twitter, FriendFeed, Delicious, Ma.gnolia, and almost any site you can grab a RSS/Atom/XML feed from. Basically, it re-centralizes your de-centralized life.

This is exactly, what I’ve been doing with FeedGrab for awhile, but with tons of additional benefits. The primary additional benefit for me though is the ability to schedule cron jobs right in the application; and secondly a level of filters. The code is open source; so I’m wonder if anyone has considered adapting it as an ExpressionEngine Module. Just because, ideally, I’d want to have all that data stored in my sites CMS, not a second database. And that’s what’s great about FeedGrab, XMLGrab, etc. is that they allow mapping into EE Custom fields. But even barring that (mapping to custom fields), having EE Tags to use to call and manipulate the data would be cool as well, something like:

{exp:sweetcron:entries data="twitter" limit="30" paginate="bottom"}

Thoughts!

I actually considered it.  But, then decided it was worth waiting until 2.0.  It can’t be too far away and I figure it would be easier to integrated an existing CI app into EE 2.0 than it would be now.

I guess waiting to EE2 does make more since. But darn it, I could so use SweetCron now for this neighborhood site project. I’m pull feeds from everywhere I can find them. It’s kind of like EveryBlock but readable. The basis starts with neighborhood histories (people, places, things); expands to current things, but then provides additional context. So a review of a neighborhood restaurant would have links to user comments, permits, licenses, historical building records, police reports, etc. I also need to do some geo-tagging, so would prefer not to have to fiddle with fees to much. So the benefit of SweetCron over FeedGrab is clear. But FeedGrab will do the job.

That looks pretty sweet. I think i’m gonna keep tabs on this for the 2.0 rollover…

I installed at my main personal domain but haven’t customized it yet and will be moving it to a sub-domain to “play” with it.

I’m huge fan of Yongfook’s work (and sense of humor) and thought I would use SweetCron to cut my teeth on CI.

i’ve been using sweetcron (and EE) for a while now. LOVE sweetcron: http://brandonbohling.com. of course i use EE too, http://ebohling.com, but until EE 2.0 comes out i’ve stopped using it unfortunately.