[[!template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] [[!tag type/useful]] This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. To specify feeds to aggregate, use the [[ikiwiki/directive/aggregate]] [[ikiwiki/directive]]. The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. Either the [[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html problems, some of which these plugins can fix. You will need to run ikiwiki periodically from a cron job, passing it the --aggregate parameter, to make it check for new posts. Here's an example crontab entry: */15 * * * * ikiwiki --setup my.wiki --aggregate --refresh Alternatively, you can allow `ikiwiki.cgi` to trigger the aggregation. You should only need this if for some reason you cannot use cron, and instead want to use a service such as [WebCron](http://webcron.org). To enable this, turn on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to visit is `http://whatever/ikiwiki.cgi?do=aggregate_webtrigger`. Anyone can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed. ## aggregated pages This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item. If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is the default), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a "._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]], like `internal(blog/*)`. If `aggregateinternal` is disabled, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML, and as first-class wiki pages -- each one generates a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. This option is provided only for backwards compatability.