Srijan sponsored the development of a FeedAPI Imagegrabber module in April 2008 (unfortunately we never talked about it on our blog earlier). We have this policy of getting interns from India’s top colleges to work on community projects or internal project initiatives with Drupal and sometimes with TYPO3 as well.
FeedAPI Imagegrabber was a result of this internship programme at Srijan.
Overview
FeedAPI Imagegrabber module is an add-on module for FeedAPI module just like FeedAPI Inherit, etc. FeedAPI ImageGrabber module consists of a parser which visits the original URL of a new feed item, and retrieves the main image from the posting. Once the main image has been retrieved, it is then converted into a thumbnail using the ImageCache module, and stored in the node created by FeedAPI, inside an ImageField CCK field.
Visit the project page at drupal.org : FeedAPI Imagegrabber.
About Srijan
Srijan is an award winning IT consulting company engaged in designing and building corporate websites, portals, intranets and web applications using open source software.
It works with TYPO3, Drupal, Symfony, Ruby on Rails and Django, and deploys and manages Linux servers that run these applications.
4 Comments
Ravi Sagar, July 14, 2009:
You know what I wanted to do something similar few months and searched for some existing modules too but didnt find anything useful.
I am gonna try FeedAPI Imagegrabber for sure, but my sites are all on 5.x
Consider releasing 5.x too :p :p
I never knew that you have internship programme too, thats good.
Rahul Dewan, July 16, 2009:
Yes Ravi, we started the internship programme last summer with one intern from IIT-Guwahati. This summer, we have 4 interns from IIT-Guwahati, NIT Durgapur, and Indraprastha University. Good results.
nitin, July 20, 2009:
btw, it was December 2008.
Ravi Sagar, July 21, 2009:
All the three comments show your pic
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