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I use Joomla. I could use something other than Joomla if you recommend.

The scenario is: I want my website to automatically take new articles from various news websites (as soon as they are published) and post them on my website.

Or at least I want a mechanism of easing the process of taking articles from tens of websites and posting them on my website.

Thank you,

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Where did I imply that I want to do so?

I want my website to automatically take new articles from various news websites (as soon as they are published) and post them on my website.

You implied it there. You don't want a system where you rewrite the article and link to your source, you want a system that will do a copy/paste job.

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IMO, it's not plagiarism unless you don't fully accredit the source.

Anyhoo, to deal with the OP's original question;

I don't know if anything exists for Joomla or other CMSs, but a simple script to parse various outlets' RSS/ATOM/whatever feeds will do the job fine.

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If any of the sites in question have an RSS et al feed of the content, it would be fairly simple to use this and link to the original source.

Edit:

Ah, Mouldy Punk already suggested this. :)

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People love to be ********... I said I want it to automatically harvest news from news websites, and this magically/automatically means I won't mention the source. You just want others to be wrong to feel right.

Anyway, a friend told me about RSS, I will search for articles and do my best. But is there any other way other than that?

I know a website called Katz.cd, it collects threads from tens/hundreds of forums and link you to them in an organization manner. You can visit it (www.katz.cd) to see how it really looks like.

I want to do a similar thing but only for news. But on Katz.cd the articles themselves are not mentioned, only links to them; I don't mind this if it is the only way it would work.

I'm mentioning this assuming forums don't support RSS and so katz.cd harvest the threads in another way.

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You do not want to have duplicate content on your website (see: Deftly dealing with duplicate content). BUT if you are just looking to aggregate the links, then that's entirely possible.

I never work with Joomla, so I won't recommend anything for it. However for WordPress there is a recently released theme that is built to function as an aggregation theme. Transmit is a theme by Press75 that's available for free. Templatic also has their own aggregator-based theme.

Both will rely solely on an RSS feed that you enter into one of their custom WordPress widgets. So for example, I want to use wpcandy.com's RSS feed then it will only grab the post tite's + link for it.

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