Feed2post v3.0rc1:

Soon we will have it on air, we are currently working on it and will be ready by mid or end of May 2011.

The new features include:

• Better and improved Source loading GUI
• Multiple parsers support (currently RSS and TWITTER timeline gathering are implemented, but we are planning a News ML parser and Facebook Wall Parser )
• Multiple storage options, you can store imported content into standard Joomla articles, Zoo Content, soon K2 content and Mighty Resources Content elements.
• New parser library for RSS, as simplepie was using too much memory, we went back to Magpie, with smaller memory footprint...
• Optimized MVC code, almost ready for 1.6 migration, 100% Joomla 1.5 Native, Joomla 1.0 support was dropped.

We are planning the following features for the next release:

• Joomla 1.6 native support.
• Templates for content formatting, it will allow you to put each source with a different formatting if you want, e.g. put a template with images related to the news type you are filtering...
• News ML parser.
• Facebook Wall Parser.
• K2 content storage
• Mighty Resources content storage.
• Better SEO options.

The full list of features is below:

• Pluggable parsers to get articles from various sources. Currently supports RSS and Twitter Timeliine gathering.
• Pluggable content storage to store the gathered articles in various content components. Currently implemented: Joomla! content and Zoo content.
• Main list sorting by title or keywords
• Defaults for new source item creation (to improve the data loading time when you create a new source)
• Configuration sections for each parser plugin.
• Adverts inserting option that can be enabled or disabled, it allows you to put and advert in each newly created content article.
• Linkback including selectable, it allows you to link to the original article.
• Duplicate checking, to avoid having duplicates on the same output storage engine (it will not check through the output options, just the one selected on the source).
• Linkback can be opened in an internal frame on your site, so the visitor never leaves your site.
• The frame is configurable, size,border, margins, etc.
• Multiple source addresses in one source item, the url list can handle one url per line or one twitter username per line, this saves you time to gather the information from several addresses with the same parameters.
• Filters by "positive" keywords and negative keywords, negative keywords will take out the article that matches any negative keyword from those filtered by the "positive" keywords.
• Full text gather: if the source has all the information, f2p will try to get all the data.
• You can ignore the items whose text is less than some value you can set.
• Cut a long introduction text into intro and main article, selecting how long you want the intro to be.
• Cut a intro text with a special tag marking the intro separation from the main article.
• Filter the HTML tags from a gathered article information, so you can avoid publishing the advertising included in the original article and put your own.
• Authenticated sources, if they require an http authentication you only need to store the username and pass and f2p will handle the rest.
• Per store engine options, each engine will have it's own set of options to allow f2p to publish as desired on that engine.