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
- CNN
Available Adapters
- Joomla articles
- K2 articles
- Virtuemart products
- Zoo Items
- Kunena posts
- Docman items
- FlexiContent items
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
v1.3.4.5 (14/09/2020)
Fixed
- Hosted fontawesome lib instead of CDN version
- Fatal error when uploading an old pipe of previous versions [Pipes list]
- Remove html comments [XMLFolder engine]
- Don't move files on processor preview [XMLFolder]
v1.3.4.4 (22/07/2020)
Improved
- Sanitize image url before processing [Get Images Processor]
- Get again engine params if was not saved in database
Fixed
- Wrong CLI file name [CLI]
- PHP Warnings when adding a new pipe
- Some deprecated code [RSSReader Engine]
- Fatal error when editing processor [Pipe Edit]
- Engine outputs not saved correctly in some cases
- Fatal error when importing a new pipe
v1.3.4 (29/06/2020)
New Features
- Ability to set a secret key [CronJob]
- Dynamic outputs checker
- XMLFolder Engine
Improved
- PHP 7.4 compatibility
Fixed
- PHP warning on select schedule when creating a new pipe [Pipe Form] [Select Schedule Layout]
- Don't update ucm content article if no ID found [Content Adapter]
- Combining outputs was not working correctly in some cases [Combine Processor]
- Some PHP Warnings [Cut Introtext processor]
v1.3.3 (29/05/2020)
Improved
- PHP 7.4 compatibility
Fixed
- Some php notices when help content not retrieved [Guidelines Feature]
- Don't update ucm content article if no ID found [Content Adapter]
v1.3.1 (02/05/2020)
Improved
- Select list design improved of engine / adapter [Pipe form]
- Guideline in backend use JLayout for better reuse [Guideline]
- Now we use filegetcontent instead of old method [Guideline]
- Global requirements variable replaced by class property [Dashboard]
- Notice explain how processor should be used [Processor Combine]
- Log UI/UX improved [View Logs]
Fixed
- Removed some non used JS/CSS files and html files
- Config doesn't display [Combine Processor]
- Some PHP warnings [View Logs]
v1.3.0 (22/04/2020)
New Features
- Include only "from" emails [Email Engine Plugin]
- Extract a piece of code from the HTML input using XPath query [New Processor] [Get XPath Processor]
Fixed
- Wrong url of guildeline in pipe post modal [Pipe Form]
v1.2.9 (15/04/2020)
New Features
- Exclude "from" emails [Email Engine Plugin]
- New options to SSL (TLS and No TLS) [Email Engine Plugin]
- Now cron job can be executed true CLI
Improved
- PHP 7.2+ Compatibility [Links Finder]
- UI/UX improved when editing pipe [Pipe Edit]
- Using JLayout in many places for better reuse and better code organization [Pipe Edit]
- Disable autocomplete on username and password on chrome [Email Engine Plugin]
- Better organization of some options [Global Config]
Fixed
- Some php warnings [Get Images Processor]
- PHP warning when processor loaded [HTML to BBCode Processor Plugin]
- Some php warnings [Get Fulltext Processor]
- Some missed constant languages [Language]
- Schedule button was not working [Pipe Edit]
- Some php warnings if template is empty [Libraries] [Pipe Edit]
- Some PHP warnings when running cron job
- PHP warnings when getting engine output [Email Engine]
- Some php warnings when loading engine output [Email Engine Plugin]
v1.2.8 (27/03/2020)
New Features
- Regex Replacer Processor [Processor Plugin]
Fixed
- PHP errors when loading the processor [Google News URL processor]
- PHP errors when loading the processor [CNN processor]
v1.2.7 (18/03/2020)
New Features
- Ability to import pipes from obGrabber
Fixed
- Conflict problems with obGrabber if debug mode enabled
v1.2.5 (01/01/2020)
New Features
- Ability to customize syntax separator [HTML Parser]
Improved
- Removed simplepie library from RSSReader and GoogleNews engines cuz Joomla already load this library.
v1.2.4.1 (14/12/2019)
New Features
- Start and End time params for embed video [Youtube Engine plugin]
- PHP Transliteration support for alias generation [Alias Processor plugin]
v1.2.4 (08/12/2019)
New Features
- Youtube Engine now use Google API [Youtube Engine plugin]
- Ability to generate more outputs like description, published date, embed code ... [Youtube Engine plugin]
- Ability to customize generated embed code [Youtube Engine plugin]
- Change alias generation mode (automatic based on Joomla SEO settings config, Unicode slug or transliteration) [Alias processor plugin]
- New processor let you save image from link and return saved image link [Save Image Processor Plugin]
Improved
- Preview button IU improved of engine in fields mapping [Pipe Edit] [Backend]
- Content adapter can support single image link in introimage and fullimage inputs [Content Adapter Plugin]
- Default min/max width changed [Get Images Processor Plugin]
- CURL follow redirect in both levels [HTML Parser Processor]
Fixed
- PHP notices [Items Controller] [HTML Parser Processor] [Combine Processor]
- Ginner part return number doesn't work well [HTML Parser Processor]
v1.2.3.3 (16/10/2019)
Improved
- Check duplicate posts also by message value [Kunena Adapter]
v1.2.3.2 (24/09/2019)
Improved
- if enclosure link is empty or not url type JoomGrabber will try to use enclosure thumbnail [Image processor]
Fixed
- PHP warning in image preview [Image processor]
v1.2.3 (06/09/2019)
Improved
- Extracting extension name from url improved, works also for urls without extension at the end [Image processor]
- Language selector now use Joomla standard field [Google Newsfeed engine]
Fixed
- Some php notices [RSS reader engine]
v1.2.2 (28/08/2019)
New Feature
- Ability to import webp format images [Images processor]
Improved
- Processors sorting [Pipe Editing]
Fixed
- Warning when adding empty description [Kunena plugin]
- Not able to add/remove engine inputs or outputs [Combine processor]
JoomGrabber
- Version:
- 1.3.4.5
- Developer:
- JoomBoost
- Last updated:
- Sep 14 2020
- Date added:
- Jun 01 2019
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Paid download
- Includes:
- c m p
- Compatibility:
- J3
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