Hi, So I found out about discourse a few days ago, and I was able to deploy it to my aws vm in a couple of hours (including getting to know what it is), and it blow me away, awesome work, it contains some features, that I had to implement myself in TelescopeJS -another open-source forum-. But the …

[image] a-magdy: but I need to poll rss feeds from multiple sources. You can have different hosts that post to different categories. Is that what you’re talking about? [image]

What I need is a “Content Aggregator” plugin, that fetches content from different rss feeds, and adds them to Discourse. but the embedding feature allows me to embed Discourse into my blog or an existing site, and it allows pulling topics from that site only (or from one rss feed). What I need is …

First, I would setup a dev environment locally. Developing a plugin in production mode is going to be a PITA. Secondly, I would create a plugin which will do the simplest thing that works Create a scheduled job that will regularly check if one RSS/Atom feed has been updated Use the PostCreator cl…

[image] a-magdy: there will be new content added regularly from other rss feeds Yes but this is generic, low value “content” … what’s the value to people that find your forum when it is filled with generic RSS? That’s not why people visit sites…

[image] codinghorror: Yes but this is generic, low value “content” … what’s the value to people that find your forum when it is filled with generic RSS? That’s not why people visit sites… I won’t just use generic rss feeds, I’ll carefully choose rss feeds releveant to the categories I’ll have…

If you are comfortable with something like php, cron and curl then I suggest having a script run at intervals of your choice (ie, hourly) https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-import-non-discourse/27420/5?u=purldator

Hey, did you end up creating a plugin that works?

Steps to follow to create a (Content Aggregator) plugin, that creates topics from different RSS feeds

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Steps to follow to create a (Content Aggregator) plugin, that creates topics from different RSS feeds

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