Features
News and RSS Aggregation
My News Crawler: Features
My News Crawler is at the forefront of innovation when it comes to aggregating news content, here’s a list of features you’ll be getting…
General Features
- Automated spidering of RSS content sources
The script uses RSS feeds to retrieve the content for the website. The content of the feeds are then stored in a MySQL database.
- Powerful keyword categorization
Keywords are a powerful way to categorize news items. Especially when you take into consideration My News Crawlers ability to handle Boolean search. This means you have an extremely powerful ability to target the exact news topics you want to appear in each category, giving your users the relevant information they are looking for.
- Multi-Language Support
Retrieve your RSS-feeds in any language and display different languages on the same page. Let the user select his prefered language. MyNewsCrawler comes with 3 predefines languages (English, German, Spanish). To add another language you only need to translate a new language file.
- Styles, CSS Design
Customization of My News Crawler is very simple thanks to the use of CSS files . You can achieve so many different looks and feels from just editing one simple file. We offer now 3 different styles and hope to increase that number in the near future. Add your own style by editing our HTML-templates.
- Create RSS-feeds
Offer your own RSS-feeds for each of your categories feeds.
- Scroller Widgets
Our configurable scroller widgets can be placed on any website.
They are fed by the main engine of the script.
Front-End
- Powerful search functionality
If users can’t immediately find the news they are looking for. Perhaps they have something specific in mind. Thanks to the built in powerful search functionality, users can to use Boolean search to target the specific news they want.
- Categorization
News is split up into categories to greatly enhance readability and general user experience.
- Hot-Topics Tag Cloud
You can define which feeds are ‘hot-topics’, these will appear in the form of a tag cloud.
- Popular Content
Instead of having to search through all the news articles to find out which ones are worth reading, there’s a built in ‘popular news articles’ section in the sidebar. This makes it simple for users to find the most important news, as quickly as possible.
- Pagination
News is divided into separate pages to decrease clutter, increasing the general usability of the script. Having news spread over a number of pages allows users to check older news items.
- Recently added Articles with Accordeon Function
Allows you display the latest added articles per source. When you click on a source, an accordeon with all latest added articles is shown.
- Recently added Sources
Show your visitors which sources you have added recently.
Administration
- Define articles per page
You have full control over how many articles should be displayed on each page.
- Define popular news time frame
- Add/Edit/Delete Categories
Full flexibility on category management.
- Add/Edit/Delete Feeds
Full flexibility on feeds management.
- Add/Edit/Delete Sources
Full flexibility on source management.
- Stats Manager
Simply copy and paste your 3rd-party stats code to keep track of everything going on, on your My News Crawler website.
- Options to configure your Main Page
Configurable options to show at your frontend:
language selector, style selector, RSS-feed creator, recently added sources, recently added articles, show articles in IFrame.
Time frames, maximum number of articles, article length of all relevant sections.
- DB-administration
Options for automatical db-backup and for automatical purging of outdated articles.
