We are starting to use WordPress as a Help Center / Instructional 
content management system.  The idea is to syndicate contextual help to 
a variety of sites and apps based on categories and tags  (i.e., search, 
facets, registration, policies, etc.).  This makes it easy for 
instructional librarians and other staff to easily update the content 
without having to depend on a programmer to update it.

I am using PHP's libxslt library to transform the feed and pull it into 
whatever site needs to use it, but I've noticed a slight lag.  SimplePie 
and it's caching features look like a possible solution for this. Thanks!

However, archiving these feeds is another question entirely... perhaps 
the SimplePie caching mechanism could be extended to save feeds to a 
persistent data store?  Or is there web archiving software that could do 
the trick?

Cheers,
Shaun

On 7/12/12 7:16 AM, Charlie Morris wrote:
> Drupal will do this out if the box with the Aggregator module and the Feeds family of modules will let you do more parsing. I've also used Magpie, Zend Feeds and SimplePie. If your only interested in parsing, presenting and storing then I'd suggest looking at SimplePie.
>
> -Charlie
> (sent from my phone)
>
> On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Brian McBride<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> Code4lib team!
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has worked on a projects relating to harvesting and archiving RSS/ATOM feeds from third party sites. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> Brian McBride
>> Head of Application Development
>> J. Willard Marriott Library
>>
>> O: 801.585.7613
>> F:  801.585.5549
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