Introduction
JoomGrabber is an advanced tool that let you grab and fetch data from out-side and store it in your Joomla website, this grabber Joomla Extension can collect any external data sources (RSS, XML, NewsML, Youtube, ebay, email, ...) and store into any Joomla 3rd party Extension (K2, FLEXIcontent, DocMan, VirtueMart ...).
This Joomla Aggregator Automated-Engine offers you fully control of:
- Where to collect content for your Joomla site
- How to re-format the content before pass it to 3rd party Joomla Extension
- Where the content will be stored
✅Main Features
- Collect content from ANY external sources
- Re-format collected content with smart processors
- Store into ANY third-party Joomla! Extensions
- Auto run with Cronjob (Scheduler)
- Logs system
🚂 Available Engines
- RSS Reader: to read RSS Feed, to offer RSS Feed to Post functionality.
- Links Finder: this engine should be used to fetch the URLs of items from any HTML webpages.
- Ebay: grab Ebay products easily
- Email: deal with your configured mailbox to grab email contents
- TxtFolder: this engine get .txt files from a configurable folder and return filename as title and text content as full-text.
- XMLFolder: this engine get .xml files from a configurable folder and return filename and xml tags as outputs.
- Youtube: fetch videos from any Youtube playlists
- Google News: A special engine which could collect news from Google News base on keywords.
⚙️ Available Processors
- Alias: create slug from text/title/subject.
- Combine: combine fields together into one output field using shortcode.
- Duplicate: check and prevent duplicate data items from source, recommend to use right after alias.
- Cut Introtext: cutting text into two parts.
- Get Fulltext: getting fulltext from a link.
- Get XPath: extract a piece of code from the html input using XPath query.
- Get Images: get images from a link or html.
- Keywords Filter: filter by keywords with AND, OR and NOT operators.
- Strip Tags: strip html tags out of input html or text.
- Change Time: adjust date/time.
- Save Image: save image from a given link
- HTML Decoder: decode html string
- HTML Parser: magic processor to extract html parts from a page
- Regex Replacer: find and replace complex content using Regex
- Original Source: output original source link
- HTML to BBcode: convert all HTML elements from a field to BBCODE format.
- Static value: concat text/code before or after a given input
- TextSpinner: spin text to differnt text by using synonyms words. This processor currently supports English & French.
- Youtube Info: grab details info of a video from a Youtube link
- Get Meta: grab meta keywords and meta description from source pages
- Google News URL: get real google news url
🗃️ Available Adapters
- Joomla articles
- K2 articles
- Virtuemart products
- Zoo Items
- Kunena posts
- Docman items
- FlexiContent items
- EasyBlog posts
➕ More Features
- Joomla auto update system
- Joomla ACL
- Preview processor and engine output
- Pipes Library
- Import / Export pipes
- Import from obGrabber
- Cron Job true CURL and CLI
- Cron Job true CURL with Secret key
- Support 3 mode of posting: manual, autorun, cronjob
- Scheduling time
- Save pipe as template
- and more ...
🔄 Last Updates
v4.2.1 (12/11/2022)
Improved
- Code completely rewriten to use Article model instead of db queries [Content Adapter]
- Removed some non used params [Content Adapter]
Fixed
- saving sometimes fails [Flexicontent adapter]
- email engine sometimes fails
v4.0 (02/11/2022)
New Feature
- Joomla 4 support
- Support Joomla Download Key integration
Improved
- removed non used assets
v1.6.0 (11/08/2022)
New Feature
- Ability to specify pipes number to run per cron job call
Fixed
- isNextCall check method was not working correctly
- some php warnings on CLI
v1.5.0 (28/06/2022)
New Features
- curl functions now support joomla outbound proxy.
Improved
- autorun mode removed cuz not good for server.
- tasks now runs true controller instead of plugin
- config call using joomla standard
Fixed
- language selection issue [Google News Engine]
v1.4.0 (18/05/2022)
Improved
- convert subject to utf8 enabled by default [Email Engine]
- added explanation in container area field label [Links Finder Engine]
Fixed
- Wrong "ned" param value [Google News Engine]
v1.3.10 (06/05/2022)
New Feature
- support of more languages [Google News Engine]
v1.3.9 (12/10/2021)
Improved
- SimplePie library updated to last version
- now we use Composer for libraries loading
- no need to decode html entity [RSSFeed Engine]
Fixed
- Some php warnings [Content Adapter]
- some php warnings [RSSFeed Engine]
- Some php warnings [EasyBlog Adapter]
- Wrong group attribute value and language file name in xml [EasyBlog Adapter]
v1.3.8.1 (12/10/2021)
Fixed
- Some php warnings [EasyBlog Adapter]
- Wrong group attribute value and language file name in xml [EasyBlog Adapter]
v1.3.8 (27/09/2021)
New Features
- Integration with EasyBlog [Adapter]
Fixed
- Date is not saved correctly in some cases [Content Adapter]
- Removed some non used files [Content Adapter]
v1.3.7.3 (23/08/2021)
Improved
- Support of non http servers like grpc [cURL] [Links Finder engine]
v1.3.7.2 (16/06/2021)
Improved
- Always set 'use cache' param default value
Fixed
- Grab stop at the first pipe [RSS Reader Engine] [Google News Engine]
- Duplicate Constant missed [Duplicate Processor]
v1.3.7 (01/05/2021)
New Features
- Force extension name of image if doesn't exist or unknown [Save Image Processor]
- Ability to display default image from random folder [Get Images Processor]
- Support of protected RSS Feeds with basic http authentication [RSS Engine]
Improved
- support of multiple tabs when of displaying form [Engines/Adapters Plugins] [Params layout]
- use cache option improved
- Cronjob execution now is internal instead of using curl method
Check full changelog here:
https://www.joomboost.com/components-changelogs/258-joomgrabber-changelog.html
JoomGrabber
- Version:
- 4.2.1
- Developer:
- JoomBoost
- Last updated:
-
Nov 12 2022
2 months ago - Date added:
- Jun 01 2019
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Paid download
- Includes:
- c m p
- Compatibility:
- J3 J4
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