With Feederator, you can add as many feeds to your Joomla site as you want create feeds for categories and sections of your Joomla site generate feeds based upon given keywords "rebrand" external feeds mashup RSS feeds allow your users create their own feeds broadcast podcasts right from the pages of your website

Getting started

After Feederator is successfully installed, you can go directly to its backend. You will see something like this:

Here you can see a list of default RSS feeds that was pre-loaded in Feederator. In this list, a widely used icon stands for "regular textual RSS feed" (RSS 2.0), and podcast feeds (iTunesDTD 2.0) are marked with icon. You can click any of these buttons to view feeds.

DETAILS column tells us further details about each particular feed:
1. External feed http://news.google.com/?output=rss means that this feed is external, but can be viewed from within your website. So, basically, your website is re-broadcasting or "rebranding" external feed.
2. Section: News ; Category: Latest - it says that the feed is "local" and is made out of content items published in category called Latest, section News.
Feeds also can be "compiled" or mashed up. We will discuss these below.

Create feeds for categories and sections of your Joomla site

Standard RSS Syndication in Joomla allows you to have only ONE RSS feed on your website. So basically all the articles flow into one stream, regardless of their actual topic. Sometimes it can be helpful to separate articles from different categories or sections to go into different RSS feeds.

To add new feed for a particular category or section, go to the backend of Feederator component and click New button, then select "Internal" and click "Next step". Tick a checkbox that says "Set specific section for the contect to be pulled from" and select a section and category.

Now you can just save your feed and you're done. But what if you take a category called, say, "Sports News" and need to filter out all content items that are not related to football? Hey, we've got a solution! Just tick a checkbox "Filter content by these keywords" and enter your keywords, separated by commas or spaces. Please note, that to enable this feature, you would need to modify some core files.

Generate feeds based upon given keywords

That's an exciting one! Suppose we have keyword "football" in 20 different content items. Then the admin can create an RSS feed just for that keyword. However, to enable this feature, you'd need to make a small change to a core file, which is explained in readme.txt distributed with the script. Please note, that only keywords set in articles' "Meta Data" section will be considered for filtering. To enter keywords into a particular content item, please open it for edit, then go to "Meta Info" tab and enter keywords in "Keywords" field.

"Rebrand" external feeds

With Feederator, you can take feeds from other websites and publish them on your Joomla website. To add new external feed, go to the backend of Feederator component and click New button, then select "Internal" and click "Next step". After you entered the URL, Feederator can try to suggest relevant keywords for the feed ("Parse for keywords" button). Here're 3 options:

Mashup RSS feeds

Some keywords can be rare to appear in a particular RSS feed, so it might be a good idea to monitor several feeds at once for items related to given keywords, and broadcast all items found in one feed. We call those feeds compiled or mashed-up, as they are essentially compiled from various sources.

Before you start adding a compiled feed, you should pick RSS feeds to grab items from, then click Parse button. Usually each RSS item has several tags that can be parsed by Feederator. By default, Feederator parses contents of description tag, but you can change this in the Settings. After Feederator has finished his parsing job, it's time to create a compiled feed. Go to the backend of Feederator component and click New button, then select "Compiled" and click "Next step". Compiled feeds are useless without keywords, so please fill out the keywords field. After new compiled feed is created, you can open it and see if it has any items. Compiled feeds use a heap of already parsed items, so don't forget to click Parse button every once in a while to make sure compiled feeds are always fresh.

Allow your users create their own feeds based on their favorite keywords

Feederator provides a unique feature for your users - they can create new feeds relevant specifically for them! Learn more about this feature in our Cookbook

Broadcast podcasts right from the pages of your website

Ever wanted to publish podcasts inside of the articles? Feederator can help you with that! Learn more about this feature in our Cookbook

Create a compiled feed of the stories related to some keyword

Let we want to import several feeds from sites and filter these for stories specifically that feature some keyword. We chose our keyword to be "iPhone". This recipe describes how to create a compiled feed of those stories from around the net that are all iPhone related.