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SimpleFeed 2.0 released

SimpleFeed was released a little over 4 months ago and has been working out very well. However, it still wasn’t fast enough—-at least for me. It could work faster, it could be more efficient. So over the past month or two I’ve really reworked some of the internal logic, making things much more efficient. I also borrowed a tip from FeedAPI about hashing entire feeds to check for updates faster and simplified the unique hash of each feed item to be much faster to compute and compare. In addition, taxonomy support is greatly improved (you can now use any type of vocabulary, doesn’t have to be just free tagging) and works much more efficiently too. Those changes and more bug fixes are all part of the new SimpleFeed 2.0.

Not only that, but Bill has been working on a Drupal 6.x port too, so please report any issues so we can get a stable 6.x release out soon too.

Also, the library that SimpleFeed relies on, SimplePie has released a 1.1.1 version which is recommended too.

posted 24 Mar 2008
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3 comments

#1
Matt Farina wrote 1 year 50 weeks ago

This is fantastic. Thanks for you work on this module.

#2
alex_b wrote 1 year 50 weeks ago

Hey Ted – great to see SimpleFeed moving. Congratulations to 2.0. I will check out the changes.

SimpleFeed – the lightweight brother of FeedAPI : )

We should soon do a performance comparison and a feature write up – it’s a time issue, I am caught up in a bunch of work and I know that you are, too – if anybody out there wants to help doing a performance/feature comparison between SimpleFeed and FeedAPI, pease contact me through drupal.org –

cheers, Alex

#3
ted wrote 1 year 50 weeks ago

Indeed, time for some benchmarks to really show what is what :)

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