Blog Aggregator based on Keyword

Would this just be blogs provided to the aggregator, because it sounds like you’re asking for a “show me all blogs talking about Gitmo right now” tool, and in that case you’re probably in need of something more like an RSS feed of Technorati (or other blog search engine) results (which wouldn’t be a bad idea…).

In any case, note that WordPress blogs can syndicate search results:

index.php?s=gitmo%20bay&feed=rss2

Thanks, so what can I use to pull this from other blogs that I have their RSS feed.

Check out David Chait’s CG-Feedread, which is well supported by him around here:

https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

Thanks I tried that plugin but it doesn’t seem to do what I want:

I want to put in RSS feeds I want to aggregate … HOWEVER only keywords from those feed.s

1. If the feed is to a WordPress blog, or one running a blogging system where search results can be syndicated, then you’d want to use something as I noted above for the feed url.

2. An aggregation tool that parses and displays feed items based on keywords? Such a beast may exist, but it’s unknown to me.

Probably the only realistic way for now to get what you want is to create a Technorati watchlist and use the watchlist’s RSS feed as the source to a plugin like CG-Feedread or mcRSSlist. There are other free services, like PubSub, which you can use in place of Technorati but I know that Technorati can do this since I just checked their site.

Hmmm. CG-Feedread has an option to filter based on a category name. In the case there’s no categories, it falls back to looking at the item link (as I found sites had numeric categories in their ‘nice urls’, so was easy to filter on that).

It would be trivial to add a brute-force check for a keyword match within the title and/or body text (brute-force meaning the keyword could be inside some html tag for all I know, since writing the ‘proper’ checks as regular expressions would be awful/painful…).

But it sounds like you are looking for a reblogger, not an aggregator — and I haven’t yet released my reblogging code as it’s still not functioning quite right. If you aren’t looking to reblog, and just display, then CG-FeedRead could likely be quickly modified to try to address your needs. Ping here if you want to talk it through further.

-d

ian – if you in fact want an aggregator, not a reblogger, ping here or better drop a line to cgcode at chait dot net and I can try to get you a hacked version to test out (or you can point me to a feed, and a keyword, and the results you’re hoping for, and I can hack around here…).

-d