Mautic RSS to E-mail

Description

The Mautic RssToEmailBundle is a Mautic plugin that allows you to generate e-mails from a RSS-feed.

Purpose

Send out an e-mail with for example to latest posts of your blog.

Compatibility

This plugin has been tested with Mautic versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.x.

Features

• Set the number of posts you want to display
• Create a custom template for the items in the feed
• Use images from the feed
• Format dates
• Reverse view

Installation

1. Download the plugin from github
2. Move / Upload folder to the plugins directory. Name the folder MauticRssToEmailBundle
3. In the Mautic GUI, go to the gear and then to Plugins.
4. Click on the "Install/Upgrade Plugins" button
5. You should now see the "Rss To Email" in your list of plugins.

Usage

Use the "code mode" slot of the froala/grapejs e-mail editor. In the content of the slot set to following content:

{feed url="<<FEEDURL>>"}
    {feeditems}
        <h3>{feeditem:title}</h3>
        <p><small>{feeditem:date format="d-m-Y H:i"}</small></p>
        <p>{feeditem:description}</p>
        <p><img src="{feeditem:image}"></p>
    {/feeditems}
{/feed}

This should give a basic setup to start with.

The following tags can be used in the {feed} block:

• {feedinfo:title}
  Returns: title of the feed

• {feedinfo:url} Returns: url of the feed

• {feedinfo:description} Returns: description of the feed

The following tags can be used in the {feeditems} block:

Optional param:

• Batch mode

  By default batch-mode will be enabled. This means that the feed-tags will only be replaced once per batch. When you disable batch-mode, the feed will be parsed for every single e-mail. So if you have a list of 1000 addresses, the feed will be requested 1000 times. Because of the high number of requests in a short timeframe it could cause the server where the feed is on to go down. So handle with care!

  {feed batch="0"} - Will DISABLE batch-mode on the feed.

• Count
  {feeditems count="3"} - Returns only the first N items from the feed

• Offset
  {feeditems count="3" offset="2"} - Skips the first N items from the feed

• Reverse
  {feeditems reverse="1"} - Returns resuls in reversed view

• Shuffle
  {feeditems count="3" shuffle="1"} - Returns results in shuffled (random) view, can be used in combination with the count parameter

Merge tags:

• {feeditem:title}
  Returns: title of the post

• {feeditem:link}
  Returns: link to the post

• {feeditem:content}
  Returns: summarized content (desciption), when description is not available it will return the full content

• {feeditem:content_full}
  Returns: full content of the post

• {feeditem:content_text}
  Returns: summarized content (desciption), when description is not available it will return the full content. Tags are stripped.

• {feeditem:content_full_text}
  Returns: full content of the post stripped of tags

• {feeditem:description}
  Returns: summarized content (desciption) of the post

• {feeditem:date}
  Optional param: format {feeditem:date format="d-m-Y H:i"}
  Returns: summarized content (desciption) of the post

• {feeditem:author}
  Returns: author name of the post

• {feeditem:categories}
  Returns: comma seperated list of the categories

• {feeditem:image}
  Returns: url of the image. Will check the enclosere and media tags of the xml.

• {feeditem:custom:KEY}
  Returns: value of custom field in RSS feed.

  To use this functionality you have to:

  1. Add this to the xmlns definitions in your RSS-feed: xmlns:mautic="https://www.mautic.org/rss/mautic/"

     For example:

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
      xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
      xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
      xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
      xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
      xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
      xmlns:mautic="https://www.mautic.org/rss/mautic/">
     
     <channel>
     ...
     

  2. Add the custom field to your RSS-feed with the following syntax:
     <mautic:location>New York</mautic:location>

  3. Inside your mail template use the following tag:
     {feeditem:custom:location}

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