Feed2Post Component

Feed2Post, the ultimate time saving tool. Feed2post allows you to get content in minutes from any RSS/Atom feed and repeat the content gathering with just a few clicks. It will also improve your page SEO as it can filter the content using keywords and negative keywords. Items posted can get advertising inserted automatically, no more editing to get your google ads into each post, just set the advertising field to your ad code...
Fully configurable, each feed can be configured with different parameters (such as section/category, etc).

New! Feed2post version 2.7.6 Native component for Joomla 1.5 framework.

Demo site available only for j1.5 component, j1.0 discontinued.

Demo for joomla 1.5 component, check it at demo2.elcansoftware.com with the same access credentials as stated above.

Feed2post component version 2.7.5 for Joomla 1.5.X branch.
Also available Cronjob to make automated fetches.

New items:
* Truncate intro text for long feeds into a selected amount of characters, doesn't cut html tags or words.
* Ignore posts with less than X characters.
* Tooltips for every option
* Iframe format selectable, more "wrapper like".
* Remove all html tags option
* Change the "More" link into whatever text you want, per source basis.
* Post selected sources, similar to post all but only posts the ones you select on the sources list.
* Parser Updated to the Latest release.
* Multiple URL's per source
* Keywords fields are bigger now.
* Configurable by feed auto-unpublish.
* Front page publishing configurable by feed.
* Configurable use of CURL instead of FSOCKOPEN for some hosting servers that don't allow fsockopen.
* Configurable advertising
* Configurable link back
* Configurable character translation (needs iconv support on the hosting server) (UTF-8 support for joomla 1.5, except for keywords)
* New "check all" checkbox on feed items list.
* New "Post All" button to post all feed items on all lists
* Postings without repeating a news (by checking the title)
* Configurable user as news creator by feed.
* Configurable full text fetch on feeds that support it.
* Configurable delay for publishing an item after posting it.
* Compatible with Joomla 1.5 with legacy plugin enabled / Native version available.
* Based on simplepie parser, with great handling of foreign character coding.
* Configurable posting of original date
* Negative keywords, if one keyword from this list is found, the post is ignored.
* Creation date gathered from the feed (optional)
* You can cut the article at any tag by using the cut tag parameter at feed configuration
* Links inside the feed content are opened into a new window and set with nofollow to improve SEO
* Feed url listing can be sorted by clicking the sort options.
* Expiration for each article posted can range from 7 days to 1 year (in predefined steps, selected from a pull down).
* Duplicate avoidance selectable (very useful for SEO purpos

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Editor's Note
  • This extension requires registration to download.
Very easy to set up. Fast customer servise response. Proffesional support. Valuable documentation. Easy to localize language use.
Shortly: Great component, great people, great business!
Thank you Carolina and Mario!
bymcongosto on September 18, 2009
Is a mature, working and very useful extension. Does what it says and does it well. Support is awesome. There is room for improvement but they are working on it.
byJag_Five-O on September 5, 2009
What can I say, it just works. I don't want to admit this, but I have also purchased JoomRSS and RSS2Content and this is by FAR the best product. It is much simpler to run and configure. If you want to be able to import RSS feeds into articles on your site, this is the best product. For the lowest price out of the three it does everything you want.

1)Import RSS feeds
2)Ability to automatically unpublish feeds after a specified period of time
3)Ability to set up a Cron to run the updates automatically.

The customer support has been great too. After I installed this product I ran in to a problem where the feeds would not auto-publish. I posted in their forum about the problem and within 24hrs received a response and a fix! How great is that!

I have to be honest, Feed2Post was the first automatic article component that I purchased. I however fell under the influence of the pretty sites and the overgrandized promises of the other components. I have realized I made the right choice the first time and could have saved some serious $$$ by sticking with what I knew worked the first time.

I would also like to mention that this component goes great with the AutoArchive2 plugin so that when your articles are done publishing they can be automatically archived or deleted.

Feed2Post is a great program and should be the program of choice for anyone who wants to build an automatic news section to their website.

Hootch350
Jag_Five-O
We are using the J1.0 version since a long time and now have 000s of feeds on it. I believe we are by far the largest user of F2P.

It works perfectly up to about 75 feeds (thereafter it creates memory problems that Mario is aware of and is solving/mmight have already sold for J1.5).

When we had question Mario was always there quickly to answer them. When we wanted some new functionality he does added it to the next release and delivered it a few weeks later.

Thanks for a great extension.
Wen I first bought this extension I was thinking wow great extension his will save me an huge ammount of work! But from the start the download link takes forever to arrive to your email :( but it does come, after you get the component you think this will just be plug and play like every other joomla component, not quite you need to setup the cronjob and the support they give, only tried it in theyr forum http://www.feed2post.com/en/support/forum/view-topiclist/forum-4-help
its not great or fast at all...
But I asked my hosting company and they told me how to setup the cronjob so I did it and the component did work ok on the first run with all the feeds auto-published! I was happy but! in the second day nothing new was published so I went into the "items" section and published them manually, it was ok I can do this I tought :) Not quite once we ad more and more feeds there are more and more windows to open if you have 10+ feeds we go crazy doing it 1 by 1! but they did know about this so they ad a button with "post all" to post them all :) I used it it seems ok at first but no new articles on the website... :( I started wondering why so I go into article manager and I got hundreds of pending articles so I have to enter them all 1 by 1 and change the publish start date (Yes it toke some time)...

Resume.
After 1 week using it the component as an huge ammount of bugs and the support literally sucks but it does comes cheap 15$ :)
In the beggining I was thinking ok this ain't really that great because Im dumb (thats true anyway) but then we check theyr forums and everyone as exactly the same bugs and problems so maybe not all was my fault.
This ain't doing any miracles for your SEO at that level I believe it does more harm then good but it does provide fresh content if used wisely. If you are really looking for a feed2post component it does the trick but you do have to do lot of manual labour theres a reason why it is cheap :)buy it and support them new versions are always coming and probably next one will have this fix just don't believe in all the good reviews over here :)
Owner's reply

Dear Customer, we do provide answers on our support forum and emails, some of you have tight spam filters that won't let our link email (for the download) land on inbox or even not in spam (although our server is not blacklisted) but if you contact us, you get your file asap, our support answers all questions in less than 24hs (except for weekends).
It's true that we have some issues with the code, but we work as fast as possible to fix them, we have more than 2K customers and each and everyone is asking for some feature they need, we work to give the best software but it's not possible to satisfy all, we have a full refund warranty, if you don't like the product and the support, we will refund your cash, your support account will be terminated and you can have your cash back, but what we are interested the more is to know what insuperable failure has caused you to write this post, we have been working with you to get your problems fixed...
Please contact us by email and we will work a solution for you, 2K customers can't be wrong 100% we do provide support and we want to help you overcome the issues you have.
Regards,
Mario

byfilip1 on July 21, 2009
I am using feed2post since 14 months and I am very satisfied with this component. I decided to use it on more websites because it is amazing. Feed2post obtained in last 1 year many improvements and new functionalities. Also support stuff helped me with all my requests. I can say Feed2post is my choice for automatically generated articles. What can we want more? Nice component, works as designed, easy installation, friendly support, cheap, etc. Wow! Thumbs up and I will buy it again.
This combo has worked miracles for our traffic !
We have only been online for a week and are allready hitting approx 400 uniques a day now...

Thanks a lot for coding this ;)

Greetz,
Peter Lunk
byludazaba on July 15, 2009
This is rely good component. I can do a lot of things whit this component.
The module installs and works exactly as advertised. You can install it without reading the instructions but to realize the full potential of the module, YOU MUST READ THE INSTRUCTIONS (RTFM). You need the ability to run Cron jobs if you are to reach the full potential of the module otherwise you have the possibility of having stale links on your site unless you manually update the site.
Feed2post works awesome. Hoping with developers website updated, that support forum and subscription management will be improved.
I bought it over one year ago for 1.0x. I needed it now on a couple of 1.5.10 installs, so I went to purchase at feed2post.com, but made sure to send a contact mail on both feed2post.com and elcansoftware.com. I was contacted by the developer, Mario, right away and handed my program as an attachment. He explained how a glitch with 2checkout.com was not delivering the software download automatically. He is dropping 2checkout and using alternate methods of payment.

Long story, support is active, the version runs VERY well with 1.5.10, and I immediately loaded 400+ feed articles into the site spread across 4 categories.

I sent some ideas to the dev about the UI, and hope they'll be integrated into the next release.
I paid the $15 for the product and there is no way to download it. I am not getting an response from the admin on the forum or by E-mail. The phone number on the site does not work either.

Not just me. If you look at their forum, other people have had the same problem.
Owner's reply

Dear TT_Chatter, please contact us to get your files and 3 months free for support, we had a problem but now new hands are in for support and help, we expect to help everybody who has a problem in less than 48hs, our new staff member will handle all your requests, please contact us by email or usign the site "Contact us" option.
Regards,
Elcan software team.

This product is certainly worth every penny - installation was a breeze and using the feed2post is certainly self explanatory... not able to get any response from the support though... company might have went out of business since most of the reviews were from last year - aside from the one post yesterday from JIWANIEC, I'm curious to know how you got in touch with feed2post or elcan software... I haven't been able to reach them for about two weeks...

At any rate, it's a good product and would give it 5 stars if It weren't for the non response issue... they get 4.5 stars...
Owner's reply

Dear SCN, we had a problem with the support specialist, a new staff member is now taking care of all delayed issues, please contact us by email or using the site "contact us" option.
We WILL ANSWER in less than 48 Biz. hours.

Best regards,
Elcan Software team.

Feed2Post rocks. Developer is extremely responsive and the component simply works like a charm!
bycyrusco on April 3, 2009
I have received excellent support and communication from the developer since I bought this extension last year.

I would certainly recommend this component to anyone looking to automate a portion of their Joomla site.

Great work!
byynewmedia on November 19, 2008
I have had to move the site over to multiple hosts and many of the components, module and mambots failed during transfer. However, this component has been the most reliable tool set for my sites. Great Job!!!!
bytulio on September 23, 2008
Now I can sit down in my rocking chair and take a beer while Feed2post works for me.

This module is amazing! My news site works by itself just change some news when I want and that's it.

The developer answers in time to any question for support. Great support is very important.

Thanks for this module I was looking since two years ago.
This extension work straight away (a refreshing change for me) and does what it says on the tin.

However I find I still need to do quite a bit of editing to my article to get it looking right as any formatting from the RSS item is lost in the transfer. So I have to go back into the article and change fonts, reinsert paragraphs etc.

It also has the annoying habit of listing the entire RSS feed, inserting a Read More break and then listing the whole item again. I suspect this may come from the old way that 1.0 Joomla used to work but it could do with being sorted for 1.5 - perhaps with the option to select how many words or paragraphs to make the Read More break after.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see this component! This is fast becoming what FeedGator wanted to be when it grew up, which never happened as it was abandoned by its developer. The ability to filter (and negative-filter) is brilliant. Time will tell if it continually downloads articles that have previously been retrieved.

Well begun project! Works straight out of the box and hopefully the dev team will continue to improve it. Will forwarded feature requests as soon as they give us some means of posting feedback. [hint hint] A forum please?

Love it so much I signed up as a "Gold" sponsor. Thank you!
Owner's reply

Dear Schelly, the forum is on the site, also you can leave us a message using the contact us form and we'll process your requests and add them to the next release if it's possible.

Best regards, thanks for your support.

byRedfern on July 19, 2008
Very, very timesaving extension, but it lacks one feature - feature to filter out needed for posting content via RegExp. And i don't mention filter articles like keywords it do, i mean save in article only those content parts what meets Regular Expression
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