1. Fetcher
2. Parser
3. Processor

• HTTP
• File/directory upload
• SOAP :(
• LDAP
• Email
• Databases
• But wait, there's more.

• CSV
• RSS/Atom
• OPML
• Sitemap files?
• XML via XPath
• XML via XSLT
• JSON via JSONPath
• KML
• Pinterest
• Slideshare
• Shape files

• Nodes
• Users
• Taxonomy terms
• Data tables
  
• Comments
• Commerce products
• Contacts
• RedHen contacts
• RedHen organizations
• Locations
• Arbitrary entities

• Schedule periodic imports via cron
• Lookup/create taxonomy terms
• Pubsubhubbub
  
• Attach to nodes for user created feeds
• Expires old entries
• Has support for most fields

• String to UNIX timestamp
• Unix timestamp to date
• Keyword filter
• Required filter
• Encode/decode HTML entities
• Make URLs absolute
• Strip HTML tags
• Explode a string into an array
• Remove empty items
• Implode an array into a string
• Make a list unique

/**
 * Implements hook_ctools_plugin_directory().
 */
function my_module_ctools_plugin_directory($module, $plugin) {
  if ($module == 'feeds_tamper') {
    return 'feeds_tamper_plugins'; // The directory that contains said plugins.
  }
}

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Contains my super sweet Feeds Tamper plugin.
 */

$plugin = array(
  'form' => 'my_module_plugin_form',
  'callback' => 'my_module_callback',
  'name' => 'Super sweet tamper plugin',
  'multi' => 'loop',
  'category' => 'Other',
);

/**
 * Configuration form.
 */
function my_module_plugin_callback($importer, $element_key, $settings) {
  $form = array();

  $form['help'] = array(
    '#markup' => t('It does things to stuff.'),
  );

  return $form;
}

/**
 * Modify things.
 */
function my_module_callback($result, $item_key, $element_key, &$field, $settings, $source) {

  $field = "You've been modified.";

}

<?php

$plugin = array(
  'form' => 'my_module_plugin_form',
  'callback' => 'my_module_callback',
  'name' => 'Super sweet tamper plugin',
  'multi' => 'loop',
  'category' => 'Other',
);function my_module_plugin_callback($importer, $element_key, $settings) {
  $form = array();

  $form['help'] = array(
    '#markup' => t('It does things to stuff.'),
  );

  return $form;
}
function my_module_callback($result, $item_key, $element_key, &$field, $settings, $source) {

  $field = "You've been modified.";

}

1. Scrape a website's HTML
2. Create some article nodes
3. Assign some terms
4. Import some images
5. Make the article title UPPERCASE
6. Get all past articles.

1. Feeds
2. Feeds Tamper
3. Feeds XPath Parser
4. Feeds Crawler

• URL patterns
• XPath for the "next" link
• Auto-mode for Atom rel="next" links

• Rapidly approaching a stable release.
• 8.x - ported, but broken atm
• 3.0 - backport from 8.x that uses the Entity API module exclusively.
• New UI - Are there any designers in the audience?
• 
  

• https://drupal.org/project/feeds
  
• https://drupal.org/project/feeds_tamper
• https://drupal.org/project/feeds_xpathparser
• https://drupal.org/project/feeds_crawler
• https://drupal.org/node/856644 (plugin list)
  

Compliments?