Creating a Popurls-like site

September 24, 2007 5:48 PM

How can I create a singlegator site like Popurls?

Popurls is one of the few sites on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. It's a "singlegator" that displays the headlines of RSS feeds from many popular sites, including Metafilter, on one page.

I'd like to create a site with a similar format as Popurls, but with feeds for those sharing my profession. Are there programs or scripts readily available to create a Popurls-like singlegator page for my Web site? (FWIW, the site has a Drupal CMS front end that is integrated with a vBulletin message board.)

Sorry, Slashdot types, but "learn PHP and roll your own" isn't an option. I can make very minor modifications to existing scripts, but forget about creating something from scratch.

posted by elmwood to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Lots of possibilities
posted by rhizome at 7:08 PM on September 24, 2007

Thinks, but I'd appreciate a more specific answer than just a list.

FWIW, it doesn't necessarily have to integrate with Drupal.
posted by elmwood at 7:15 PM on September 24, 2007

Might Yahoo Pipes do what you want? Sorry not to be more specific, but I've only looked at it in passing myself. Do you need to host it within your own site, or just create a resource?
posted by mumkin at 7:49 PM on September 24, 2007

"Aggregator Summary", from rhizome's link above, seems to do exactly what you want.

You might get more constructive answers if you leave things like "sorry Slashdot types" out of your questions. It makes you sound like a dick.
posted by null terminated at 7:52 PM on September 24, 2007

It seems like any number of drupal modules can get your intended result. Have you tried any of them?
posted by demiurge at 8:29 PM on September 24, 2007

You like to create a site without creating any software? Good luck. Either get going on rhizome's list, or hire a coder from somewhere like rentacoder.

You're going to have to actually do something here, you know. Or you could just post a username/pass to your server here and we'll do everything for you, of course.
posted by bonaldi at 5:22 AM on September 25, 2007

but "learn PHP and roll your own" isn't an option

Then you can't do it. How do you think software gets made? That we dig up old scripts written by dinosaurs and modify them? If you want to get software, you have to write software. How hard is that to understand?
posted by GuyZero at 7:05 AM on September 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

I have to disagree with bonaldi's and GuyZero's requirement to write software for this project. There are ready made drupal modules that can handle this. You should only need to install and configure.
posted by demiurge at 7:20 AM on September 25, 2007

Look for a python project called "Planet". There are numerous RSS aggregators that are 10 feeds on one page, with a name like "ColdFusion Planet" or "Creative Commons Planet" etc.
posted by mathowie at 12:56 PM on September 25, 2007