# Need a feed aggregator

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-feed-aggregator/186986>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 15, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-feed-aggregator/186986 "2010-04-15T08:55:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-feed-aggregator/186986/1 "2010-04-15T08:55:24Z")

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want to aggregate interesting blogs / discussions related to software  
testing field and keep it at one place

1. In the admin system I’ll provide some information about the feed  
this i will do

2. Based on this information - there should be some periodic job which  
will run at a specific time, fetch latest article etc from their feed  
and populate in our DB (need help in this )

3. Look at couple of feeds - they should all have similar fields and  
we need to extract all the relevant data from them.

4. This aggregator should support all the popular feed format like -  
RSS / ATOM etc

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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-feed-aggregator/186986/2 "2010-04-15T17:00:10Z")

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check out feedzirra. ryan bates of [railscasts.com](http://railscasts.com), has a great  
screencast on using this tool…  
[#168 Feed Parsing - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing)  
i’ve written a blog post about installing it on ubuntu bc there are a  
couple of dependencies which fight back…  
[Seanbehan.com](http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/installing-feedzirra-rss-parser-on-ubuntu-8/)

i developed a very simple reader application you can see it here  
[Seanbehan.com](http://seanbehan.com/reader) using feedzirra and a cron job. if you’re  
interested i can throw the source up on github.

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**Author:** ![rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@rahul\_m](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rahul_m)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 7:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-feed-aggregator/186986/3 "2010-04-16T07:43:06Z")

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hiiii,

thanks for reply…

i have implement the simmons  
[http://simonwoodside.com/](http://simonwoodside.com/) feed aggreegator and stored in the db the feed  
now  
want to set the cront job for than

thanks

rahul